Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 6 December 2020

ANNETTE I bet your Honda has bags of personality.

We don't know anyone who's been offered the vaccine yet. Our elderly neighbours ought to be eligible, as not only over 80, the gentleman has a bad chest. We might be in line by January, as my OH is over 75 now.

LINDY I meant your knee.

OG Sorry to hear that J is still up and down. I hope he did get back to work today.

This morning, I was driving to the building society, when a car tried to pull out of a petrol station in front of me - I waved him through, then realised that the sleek black car was a sports car - a Maserati!! Very expensive indeed! As we proceeded down a hill, the car in front of him suddenly braked and so of course he braked too. I said to my OH later that I would have been frightened to go home if I had not stopped in time! The cars must be worth more than our house..... it looked like something out of a Batman movie.

dibnlib:  I just need my cars to be dependable and comfortable.  My CRV is both and has lots of places to stash things too.

Lindybird:  I feel the same way when I come up behind a Tesla.  We have Maserati and Tesla dealerships next door to each other near the Y  I'm clearly living in a neighborhood I can't afford.  :-)

Clare:  At least you have options right now.  Take care and Hi to Limpy.

Must get cards done and packages off today.  Take care all.

Sorry, dibnlib, we seem to have wires crossed. I did hurt my knee getting out of the car but forgot to say, it was alright by the next day.

Finished writing some letters to go with cards, so hoping that shortly I will only have the cards to neighbours to deliver, and we usually only do that nearer to the big day.

Have a strange infestation of flies, which seems to happen now and then: they must be hatching out from somewhere. My OH has been swatting them several at a time.

Well, I don’t know where the days are going!

Have I mentioned Tuesday our podiatrist came – just one bandaged toe, and that is now healed. Today we waited an hour for hairdresser to arrive. We eventually made contact with her – she had written it on the wrong day in her diary! So we have accepted the date she has, to avoid moving anyone else, and she will be here next Wednesday!

J’s symptoms reminded him of his “absences”. He eventually spoke to a different one of our GPs and she said he shouldn’t have been given the anxiety medicine – it seems to have been interfering with his epilepsy medicine! He has to take a week to get it out of his system. So he won’t be back at work next week. And has been told to phone the epilepsy specialist nurse at the hospital!

Gradually working through our schedule of cleaning, baking, shopping etc to be ready for Christmas. E-E did well on his booked visit to M&S yesterday, so we have a freezer well-stocked with snack-type food meaning less preparation and cooking for him to fit in. Local cards will be posted tomorrow, and order left with the butcher.

HEATHER – are the two Granddaughters not coming to put up your decorations this year? Or maybe just the one who is part of your bubble with elder Daughter? J’s blood sugar level is fine and they are watching various hormone levels too – but see above to what might be cause of current troubles! Lucky escape with wasp! I always pick them up by the wings (not that I can pick anything up off the floor these days) in case they are not quite dead and the movement might revive them with the air rushing into their lungs – do wasps have lungs? I don’t know!

AQ – I think it your Daughter might be glad to bring the Trio to do your decorations – a day off from finding things to amuse them at home! Your treatment is proceeding the same way mine did – I had op in autumn the radiotherapy after Christmas.

LINDA – I too made the paper chains out of strips of paper – and our tree was always a branch off one of our garden fir trees! Pleased to see the knee recovered! Sorry about flies – we had fruit flies on our bananas last week – persistent little fellas!

ANNETTE – sounds useful time spent while car was being set straight. I wonder who owns the Rolls Royce?

HARELADY – sorry about broadband frustrations, especially annoying when trying to work from home.

CLARE – OH did read of plans to have unpaid carers (he is mine) high on the list for vaccine. But I haven’t read it anywhere that I have looked.

DIBNLIB – Good to hear that someone has been offered vaccine – why did he turn it down? We eat all meals including breakfast in the dining room – got two ways through from kitchen – no doors – so operate a one way system!

I think that’s all for me – before I fall asleep!

A small short food shop this morn to replenish fruit, veg, bread, frozen fish & chicken (for lazy meals). Salad on the menu coming days as temps will be in mid-30s. Very few shoppers. Two hour nap after lunch. OH out to lunch and none of the To-Do-While-he’s-out list was done. Oh well, next week, sometime, never.

Aussieland will not be approving vaccine/s until March. I am happy to let others test it first as the speed of development concerns me. Perhaps if our country did not have such low case numbers, I would think otherwise. Today, news that QLD Uni’s trials abandoned as showing false positive HIV test results. However our govt has 3 other vaccines on order pending results.

Just a thought

When you feel like giving up just remember that there are a lot of people you still have to prove wrong.