Monday… again!
Jun 23rd 2008PeterGetting My Life Back! & More treatment!
I was hoping to post a few more photos from Katie’s ‘Birthday bash’, but I haven’t received them yet!
My second course of ECP went well. I am getting the hang of the hospital accommodation, and decided that rather than go for an overpriced pizza, I’d get something from M&S (This is not just food…) and cook for myself. It didn’t go quite according to plan…
The starter, as I discovered after I bought it, needed to be cooked in a real oven – there is only a microwave in the accommodation kitchen. However that was no problem for the main course – a curry. Well there wouldn’t have been had I not read the “re-heat for 2 1/2 minutes” as “reheat for 22 1/2 minutes” (which would have been reasonable if it had been frozen! Fortunately I realized my error in time to salvage something (after 12 minutes) – but it wasn’t quite the gourmet experience I had hoped for!
However, there are signs that the ECP is having a positive effect. My joints don’t feel quite as stiff as they were and I think I can stretch a bit further.
Felicity cam home on Saturday after a week at Ascot – and it was off to Bournemouth on Sunday to collect all Katie’s ‘stuff’ from her rented flat as the term has ended. Next year is spent at a placement, so there may be a slight storage problem…! However it is stacked in her bedroom at the moment.
But those little trials and tribulations apart, all is well!
Onwards and Upwards
14 Responses to “Monday… again!”
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Richard on 23 Jun 2008 at 12:07 pm #
Well good news, although too floppy joints, are not much fun
Simon (BT) on 24 Jun 2008 at 11:21 am #
Well there you go – this is what happens when you reach a certain age – lets hope the culinary language was not Gordon Ramsey style!!
Glad treatments going well – Portugal was fab and like a distant dream already – shame
O and U
S
Richard on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:35 pm #
Simon, good to have you back. Did you return with some vino verde
(i ?) ? One of those wines which seems very reasonable (4+ litre containers) but doesn’t travel.
Dreams are always real…………….well it seem so to me.
Good luck to both.
Richard
Gillian on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:46 pm #
hear hear – good wishes to all!
Definitely time for the summer wines – break out the pink stuff, always good for a bbq.
will need some tomorrow – school sports day, so bound to rain 🙁
Richard on 25 Jun 2008 at 7:50 am #
Did you win the parent’s race Gillian, all you had to do is imagine Peter and Simon chasing you to get to the ‘pink stuff’. Although as it probably didn’t rain you could have done with a slug of my favourite F30
Cheers
Peter on 25 Jun 2008 at 8:26 am #
I think Gillian is competing in the Parents’ Egg and Spoon Race this afternoon. Good luck!
Gillian on 25 Jun 2008 at 7:36 pm #
well………. survived sports day – thankfully no parents’ races 🙂
Tea and cakes for afters – and definitely needed the F30!!
Hurrah, our house won (bet you didn’t know houses could race!)
Richard on 26 Jun 2008 at 1:29 pm #
Every morning the Today Programme gives house racing tips 🙂
Gillian on 27 Jun 2008 at 8:43 pm #
are the houses decked out in magnolia – or a more vibrant shade to make them go faster?
Richard on 29 Jun 2008 at 2:03 pm #
In which case Tobermory should be a very fast town
http://www.tobermory.co.uk/panorama/panorama_tobermory_waterfront.htm
Gillian on 30 Jun 2008 at 10:59 am #
Or…… Balamory to those in the know 😉
Peter on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:39 am #
Wasn’t Tobermoray the nephew of Great Uncle Bulgaria?
Rcihard on 30 Jun 2008 at 5:56 pm #
I think that the Duke of Argyll got there first Pretty tho’ Good fish too and a strong smokery.
Elspeth on 02 Jul 2008 at 11:36 pm #
It amazes me all this lateral thinking sparked by culinary misreading. A colourful life in and out of houses is preferable to the grey/black/white! Did anyone know that the Duke of Argyll (a few back) used to put posts in the fields for the cows to rub themselves on – instead of using the fences?
It is annoying to get a metal dish which indicates oven cooking, the plastic dish might not have that which suits the taste buds (which reminds me that mine are misbehaving just now). O&U all.