It seems I'm a patient now!

And the sun (at last) is trying to come out, though it’s pretty breezy too, and still only around 15°. However, this weekends forecast looks quite a lot better so I think just doing that walk to the coast might be worth a paddle!?!? 

Hugs xxx

You’re doing a lot of walking moomy  ... hope it helps you sleep well. Sounds an emotional trip at times but certain things will trigger leaky eyes. I’m further up the coast and we saw the sun for a little while which was welcome. You definitely need to wrap up as the wind is chilly. Fingers crossed for a good weekend. 

Hope I can sleep ok, measured my length on an uneven patch of grass, thankfully nothing broken but a few knee bruises plus an achey shoulder (not the mx one). Very thankful I brought a freezer pad with me, it’s been well used this evening!

ah well….. I’m still up and about and can  increase painkillers accordingly. it’s not going to stop my love of exploring! 

It didn’t stop me cooking sausages in my Remoska either, added half a can of potatoes, a small can of sweetcorn and a spoonful of a sun dried tomato sauce, at the end, it was really tasty. The remaining cooked sausages are cooled and in the fridge to have at breakfast, and maybe as sausage sandwiches for a lunch.

hugs xxx

moomy  what have I told you about taking more water with it ? Seriously moomy take care ,look after yourself hugs 

Sleep was a bit tricky till just around midnight however I did have an espresso martini purely to help as pain relief, you understand?! This morning I woke around 7.30 after having to get up once (par for the course aged 78 I guess!) 

and after a slow start I’m ok (and will dilute it with more water, honest, Northerner ) 

Theres a round yellow thingy trying to emerge from the easterly cloudy sky, I guess it’s the sun, haha! 

Second coffee and then some washing up and I will get to the seaside today for a walk along the very long coastal prom, I think it goes all the way to Mablethorpe but not south to Skegness. No I won’t walk that far, just maybe to the outskirts of Sutton.

Hugs xxx

Never change a good mind, they say? I’m going to take a bus ride into Skegness as of course it won’t be full of school kids today, plus the coast near here won’t be packed with them at the weekend either…..

Hugs xxx

It was pleasant on the top deck of a double decker, seeing countryside and villages as I went, but everyone I know is right, Skegness is tired and tatty, like Mablethorpe only bigger. Surrounded by static caravan parks too. Loads of them! I had a tasty lunch, a wander and then caught the bus back. 

The sun has been out, and it’s lots warmer but still breezy at present. Hopefully it will improve tomorrow. Only 3 1/2 miles walked today! 

Very confusing, I had arranged a phone call appointment next week with the surgery for a slight problem that I know I need to see a doctor for. It seems you can’t make just a doctors appointment these days, you have to be phoned by a triage person. Since my problem can only be diagnosed and hopefully helped by a doctor face to face, that seems pointless. I just had a text saying I had an appointment this evening. Bit difficult, I thought so phoned, sat in the inevitable queue, only to find that yes, it was a phone appointment! Crazy! So I’ve now actually got what I knew I needed, an actual face to face with a doctor next week!!!! What a way to use up hard fought-for NHS time and money! I wonder if I will still get the triage phone appointment which was booked for next Tuesday, too?!?!?

Hugs xxx

The whole system is broken moomy . GPS are leaving in droves , they hacpven’t enough staff

I so agree, seaspirit44  but they might make funds go further if they think carefully about how they operate? And certainly they need to improve their messaging, that text didn’t indicate that it was a phone call, just said appointment. The IT system is pants! 

I think for about 20,000 patients (when I was on the PPG the tally was 17,000) we have 3 ‘full time’ GPs, full time being 3 full days a week. A few part time GPs but certainly nowhere near enough. 

Hugs xxx

Oops! and chronic underfunding making it worse. They are doing their best, but it is very scary. The safety net is just not there any more. Also very frustrating.

Hope you are recovering from your fall.

What are you singing at the mo? We have a concert a week on Sat. Little Organ Mass, Handel’s anthems, Parry,s Blest Pair of Sirens, Taste and See by Vaughan Williams, and All People That on Earth Do Dwell, with very tricky parts. Big sing! Xx