Tuesday 1st July

Soup Is Off The Menu

A new month. Welcome to July. 😀 Today the heat is on, I look at my flat's thermostat at 4am and it's 31 degrees. My legs are red and itchy and the sky looks funny as well. I catch the sunrise at 4.30 (as much as the buildings will let me). 

I realise that I've got a heat rash all over my legs. 😱 This will be fun today with the temperature in the mid thirties. Never mind, it could be snowing. Actually, I wish it was so that I could go and roll my burning legs in it. 

It's feed the pensioners day. Off I go to do just that. They alway start with soup. Hot soup. I suggest changing it to melon today. Cold melon. Like fridge cold. 

I'm told that they might not like it because they always have soup. Hot soup. Even in 35 degrees they have hot soup. I think they they should live a little and try the melon, it's a massive risk but one that I'm willing to take. If they don't like it then I can always hide. 😳 We have packet soup if there is a riot. 😱

I am dispatched to Waitrose to purchase three melons. This I do and the pensioners seem to enjoy them. 

Once home I inspect my legs. They look like I've been lowered into a vat of hot oil. 😱 I'm a right mess and hopefully the weather will break tomorrow and take my red itchy rash with it. 

Prosecco may help. 😀

Dawn breaking over the London rooftops

My Picture

My New Bag

Thursday 3rd July

Pot Noodle

I'm having a day at home. 😳 I don't have many full days at home but I've been a bit busy lately so I'm taking it easy for the rest of the week. After all, I am meant to be retired. Even though I have roller skates and a skateboard. 😱

Lunchtime and I look in the fridge, it isn't that inspiring, lots of liquid in the form of Prosecco and milk but not much to eat. I forget to put food in there as I eat out so much. 🙄

I remember that I have some Pot Noodles. These dried noodle things that come with a sauce and you pour boiling water over and wait a few minutes and they are ready to eat. I haven't had one for decades. We used to laugh at them. 🤐

I choose a 'Bombay Bad Boy' 😱 and do what I have to. You don't have to be a master chef to make these. They are ok. In an emergency they are brilliant but I wouldn't live on them, it really is a snack, not a meal. It does for the time and I will investigate the freezer later. 

I take an anti histamine and fall asleep for several hours. 

Pot Noodle "Bombay Bad Boy"

Friday 4th July

Independence Day

So 4th July and our American friends are celebrating independence from British Goverance. Sometimes I wish that I could celebrate independence from British Governance but as a Brit I'm bloody stuck with it. 😳 It's no good me emigrating to the US, I think that they have us Brits Trumped in political problems right now. 😱

All I can say is that here, anyone is welcome, whatever your beliefs, race, politics or anything. I'm just having a bit of fun, healing from life and exploring what it has to offer. 😀

I had another day at home today, running like I was in Chariots of Fire last weekend didn't do me any favours so I'm catching up with jobs that I've been putting off for ages.

I make it to lunchtime before hitting the Amaretto Coffees then go for a walk because I can't sit indoors any longer. I've got a bit of a fondness for Amaretto but it can't beat the sound of the Prosecco pop when the cork comes out the bottle and you know what is to follow, the bubbles, the sweetness, the joy......❤️

With my addiction to Italian alcohol I may just emigrate to the land of pasta and tiramisu. 😳

Italian Pleasures 

Saturday 5th July

Personality Testing And An Escort Home

This morning I went to a course at my local Church to see how my personality type affected me and how I interacted with others. I had taken a test and before I took it I thought that I fitted into the Individualist group and after the test it confirmed that I did. 😱

Apparantly my core belief is that I am different and misunderstood. 😳 That is true, I am. 😭 I am also artistic and creative. 😳 It was fascinating hearing about what made me tick and the type of personalities that my friends had. 😱

A big shout out to Mark who led it and talked for hours, Mark is American and the same personality group as me. 😀

After that I went up to Clapham Spoons to meet Margaret and her family, a bottle of Prosecco went down quickly and we headed back to her house where we sat round the kitchen table and chatted and would you believe it ? ...... another bottle of Prosecco appeared. 😳 It would have been rude not to drink it, so I did. 😱

Getting up to go home the floor was a bit wobbly so Margaret got her Son-in-Law to escort me home. I didn't fall over and I don't think that I said anything inappropriate.....

But I can't remember. 😭

Margaret and me as I drink my second bottle

Sunday 6th July

Mark, Maria And Meeting Roots

I go to Church today (with a hangover), to listen to my fellow individualist, Mark who is my new American friend. He's a great speaker and my headache goes. 😀

Time for more pain though. 😱 I grab Maria and set off in search of Prosseco. 😳 I find it in the pub a few doors down. The skies look worryingly heavy but we love sitting out front watching the world go by. As she goes to Waitrose to buy lunch I meet Roots who is a musician from Peckham, he's lovely and I will join him on his reggae social media. 😀

Maria returns and the skies open but we huddle under our umbrella and nibble on our picnic. Actually we throw it down our throats as we are starving. 😭

It's home time and I slosh through puddles in my flip flops not caring like a five year old. 

Mark and me

Maria and me

Monday 7th July

Old Photos

I'm not out for long this morning so I actually do some housework. 😱 I don't get chance to do much and at times it looks like I've had an all night party by myself in the morning. 😳

Then I decide to delete some old photos that I don't need anymore. It's hard. 😭 The thing with photos is that they capture a moment in time and if you get rid of it then it's gone for good. 😱

Obviously I could never get rid of any of my wedding ones or ones of my family or friends but I do seem to have a lot of odd ones. I get stuck on ones of me. Me at various places, here and abroad. I don't delete any, I keep them all and enjoy remembering. 

I catch up with the Ozzy Ozbourne/Black Sabbath gig at Villa Park. I love Ozzy. I know he has a history but you can't be The Prince of Darkness without one, can you ? 😳

Black Sabbath were good to headbang to in the 70s, Paranoid is a great song, perfect for Ozzy's voice. I know that he performed sitting on his "Bat Throne" but given his age and health we should be grateful that he managed it. He still looked great but he needs a rest now. Good to see him back on stage one last time though.

Thankfully without the bat. 😱

One of my favourite photos, me in February in Brixton at the Bowie wall

Tuesday 8th July

Resin Revelations

I thought that I would have another try at resin making so I grabbed some moulds, resin and colourings and also some gold feathers for a new collection.....The Gold Feather Collection. 😳

I had a disaster on the draining board, the resin overflowed the mould and got stuck on it. 😱 I scrubbed and got the knife out. 😳 Not to use on myself, but to lever the blobs of hardened glue off. It will come off in time. 

Meanwhile, the new Gold Feather Collection doesn't look very hopeful, the pink shell resembles a strawberry trifle. 😳 The silver tray looks like a fish has died in it. 😱 and the yellow thing reminds me of a bowl of vomit 🤮 

I hope they look better when set but I doubt it. 😭

The Strawberry Trifle

The Dead Fish

The Bowl of Vomit

Wednesday 9th July

Littlehampton 

Margaret and I are off to Littlehampton today. 😱 I phone her at 6.30 am as promised to wake her up but she is already up and raring to go. 😳 We got on the train and soon were speeding through the Surrey countryside into Sussex. We learnt our lesson when we went to Brighton and didn't pack a five course meal, we just had drinks.

Arriving in Littlehampton before 12 we were relieved to find nice, clean loos on the station, although we had them on the train. I'm never completely at ease using a train loo, I think it's PTSD dating back to when I travelled through China on a train and the loo was an open hole over the track. 😱

We headed out into the world outside and to our joy there was a map showing us how to get to the beach. Margaret and I discovered in Brighton that we were not Boy Scouts and even if we were, we would not ever see our orienteering badge on our uniforms. 😭 The map helped and we were soon in a pedestrian shopping street where the town of Littlehampton had been kind enough to decorate with flags in honour of our visit. 😀

Margaret spotted a branch of Peacocks and was lost to me. I went to look at a signpost to ensure that we were heading the right way and then went to drag Margaret away from buying too many clothes and ended up buying more than her. 😱 

Lunchtime and only one place to be and that was Spoons. We had fish and chips and I sunk a bottle of Prosecco. 😱 The loos were so posh they got the loo of the month award. 😳 Onwards to the beach, stopping at the War Memorial on the way.

We spotted the sea and did a merry dance. 🙄 Crossing a car park to get to it, I ran down to the waves whilst Margaret snapped away. The sea was so warm and comforting, warmer than I remember any English coast to be. 

I had to leave the waters and we went for a spin on our favourite 2p arcade machines where they are balancing on the edge and hopefully fall into your tray as you feed 2ps in. 😱

Then onto rock shop and a tub of mussels soaked in vinegar and doused in black pepper. We walked back and sat in a park for a while, then a return visit to Spoons and another bottle of Prosecco for me. 😱

Back to the station and I'm feeling the prickly heat rash rising. 😳 I'm also feeling a little bit tipsy. 😱 The train is delayed. 😭 It's so hot that Southern Rail hand out water. Finally the train puffs in, I fall asleep somewhere along the line but all too soon Clapham Junction arrives and we get off. Up the stairs we go to the loos (me with difficulty). Walking seems particularly hard. 😱 Margaret helps and after a brief sit down we get a bus home.

Thank you Littlehampton for a great day. ❤️

Thank you everyone who helped the tipsy Jan get up from the pavement and on the bus. ❤️

Sorry Margaret. 😱

We've arrived 😳

Lunch

Margaret on the beach

Playing the machines

In the park

Me in the sea

Thursday 10th July

Crop Failure

So I've been trying to grow herbs indoors for some weeks, I know that I'm a fantasist but I had dreams of drying lavender and chamomile, both of which didn't make an appearance. 😭

Dill was ok and a few others are struggling on through the heatwave. I found out that for about the same price as the seeds and earth, I can buy a fully grown plant from Sainsbury's. I'm trying with coriander. It's good to be able to pick the leaves off and put them on whatever I am eating. If I did that with my miserable bunch I'd get a mouthful of garden earth. 😱

Talking of the heatwave, I'm old enough to remember the 1976 UK drought and heatwave. Water was rationed and we were told to bath in no more than 5 inches of water 😱 and then water our garden with it. Times were hard in the olden days. 😭 We were even instructed to bath with a friend to save water. 😳

I was 13 years old, I think not. 

My coriander plant

Friday 11th July
I Kill My PC

I've had enough of my PC. 😳 It sits on my only table meaning that I don't have one. It's loud, it's old, it's dusty (ok that's my fault). When we bought it I was in my old life, I had a husband, a Mum who was still alive, a job. 😳 and a regular income. It was a good PC. 

I'm not fond of laptops, ever since we had one that over-heated every 30 minutes. 😱 A bit like me at the moment. 😳 I've been surprised with my latest buy in the IT world though. It's done me proud and I've needed no help with it. It was cheap, it's quiet, it's fast and it's easy to work out. Just about everything I'm not then. 😭 I suppose it's bloody tee-total as well. 😭

So I've got rid of the PC. Whilst it's the right thing to do, part of me is a bit sad, it's another bit of my shared life leaving but it has to go. 

The room will look better without the dinosaur in the corner and I will have somewhere to eat my tea. 😳

My laptop

Saturday 12th July

I Turn Bumpy

I wake up feeling hot, it is hot, we are in the middle of the third flaming heatwave of the year. I realise that the heatwave is inside me as it's only 5am. 😱

Into the bathroom I hobble and squint in the mirror. 😱 Hell has come to claim me. 😱 I am covered in blisters. 😭 I do what any self respecting English person would do. I make a cup of tea. 

After a cold bath the redness goes down but the lumpiness remains. I have another cup but there's only so much tea I can drink. Actually there isn't, I can sit looking at my blisters all day long sipping Yorkshire Tea if I want.....but I don't want. So I switch to coffee, cold coffee made with cold milk from the fridge, Camp liquid (remember that), my friend Helen bought me some. ❤️ and some vanilla essence all whizzed together in my smoothie maker. 😳 As it's still very early morning I decline the alcohol and I am obviously on my last legs. 😭 but Amaretto would finish it off nicely. 😀

I bought another laptop in Amazon Prime Day - I like to have two of everything, I would have made a good wife for Noah in his Ark. 😱 It's coming today so as my appearance will scare children I may as well stay home.

I'll have another coffee. 😳

An old favourite 

Sunday 13th July

Making Movies

I'm stuck at home being spotty and heat rash bumpy so I can't go out. 😭

What to do ? I decide after starting hundreds of things and getting bored within minutes to make a movie of the moon from my AI photos. So I do and you can view it on my films page. 😱 No charge. 😀 I don't have any popcorn though. 😭 You can rate it if you want. 😳 Hopefully more follow. 

Tina wants to go drinking, so do I but I can't. 😭 I have to refuse. I have put my Sainsbury's order in online just in case I can't get out and I have long life milk coming so that morning tea will not be a problem. 😳

The van arrives, my order is intact but there are some funny little bottles in there. Oh 🤐 I've gone and ordered three half bottles of Prosecco instead of full bottles. 😭

Will things improve soon ? 

Advert for my movie

Monday 14th July

I Venture Outside And Cook

So I'm still stuck at home with red, spotty, bumpy and now peeling skin. 😭 but it's Monday and the dustbins have to go outside. A quick five minutes and I'm back again. I decide that a longer journey is called for so I do the 'walk round the block'. 😱

I wear a long sleeved shirt and feel slightly over dressed (I do wear other things as well). 😳 I don't want to meet anyone I know looking like I've got infected measles though. The way I feel I don't want to meet anyone whether I know them or not. 😭 I keep my head down as I shuffle along and get home without scaring anyone. 

Spurred on by my success I decide to cook my own tea. 😳 I am not a cook but I have these giant pasta shells that I loved the look of and a cheese sauce in the fridge so how hard can that be ? 

Not too hard. I even put home grown dill and Sainsbury's grown coriander on it for show along with freshly ground black pepper. It's ok but the giant pasta shells needed five minutes more. I like them soft, I'm old, none of this al dente rubbish.

I forgot to buy Tiramisu. 😭

Giant pasta shells

Giant  cheese shells.....my tea 

Tuesday 15th July

Nearly Beaten By IT

Since I've been working from a laptop the one thing that I can't get used to is the touchpad to move the cursor. I never have done in the past. I used to watch others effortlessly move thier fingers around it like a skating ring but it never worked well for me, I was always lost wanting to right click. 😳

I can't be bothered to try so I bought a wireless mouse and as I'm a salesman's dream I bought a wireless keyboard. 😱 I didn't have a clue how to install them but I thought I'd figure it out. 

The time came to figure it out and I wasn't so sure anymore. 😭 I took them out of their box and realised that I hadn't bought a mouse at all. 😳 I'd bought a pair of mice or two to be exact as the keyboard came with one. Well, you can never have too many mice (unless they are the real squeaky type that come out at night and poo and eat wires). 😱 I had one behind my wall once that drove me nearly insane. 

I thought I'd start with the mouse that didn't come with a keyboard as that seemed easier. To be honest, my Husband used to do all our IT things but as he's now my late Husband I just have to get on with it. I remember that he used to add a device so imagine my delight when I found that on the laptop. Imagine my horror when it couldn't find the mouse. I'd turned it on, I'd picked it up and showed it to the laptop so that it could identify it. What more could I do ?

I kept doing the same thing. Bored, I opened it up to look at the battery and noticed a plug in thing there. I plugged it in the laptop and it worked. 😀

Why don't things come with instructions ? I never knew that I had to plug anything in the laptop for the mouse to work if it had a battery in it. I thought the battery made it work. 😭 I'm a child of the 60's they didn't teach me this at school. 

I have yet to start on the keyboard but it's not necessary.

My mouse and 'thing'

Wednesday 16th July

Margaret Meets A Skeleton And I Buy New Shoes

Today I am meeting Margaret for lunch. I don't care what my heat rash looks like, I am going out. 😱 I go out in a long sleeved orange shirt and orange trousers. If I had my orange wig on it would make the picture complete. 

We eat breakfast at Spoons at Clapham Junction. I drink Prosecco and we chat. 😀 I scratch. 😭 It feels good to be out again though. 

Margaret wants some coat hangers from T K Maxx so in we go. We can't find them but we have fun with a stuffed skeleton. 😱 Halloween is coming early. I go to look at shoes and fall in love so I buy the footwear that has stolen my heart. In my orange shirt and trousers I look like a walking advertisement for T K Maxx and you would have thought that my carrier bag would have been free but oh no. 🤐

Finally we leave much to the relief of the store staff. 

Home we go on the bus, carefully tearing off the price stickers to see how much our purchases were before they were marked down. 😳

I have bought some Barista Style coffee syrup - thin vanilla flavour. I'm not sure why. 😳

Margaret and the T K Maxx Skeleton 

My new shoes 

Thursday 17th July

Orange And Peach Roses And Back To The Blackout

I was given roses today by a friend as a thank you. What a wonderful thing to do. 😀 A thank you, whether words in a card, a small gift or some other way of showing appreciation, a touch on the shoulder, a job done for someone or the precious gift of time means so much. ❤️

On another matter, I cannot stand the heat in my roof flat any longer so I've ordered some black out material. 😳 I'm not about to start sewing my own curtains, I stick it to the frame and it's removable. 😳 I have visions of me watching war films on the TV and digging for victory on Tooting Common. 😱

Ive started watching Insomnia on the TV, its very green, not in an ecological way but it seems to be someone's favourite colour. I'm hooked though. What do the numbers all mean ? I think that Pheobe did it. 😱

Too many questions, I'll never sleep....Insomnia. 😱

My flowers

Friday 18th July

Black Friday

I'm in Sainsbury's wondering what to buy, the blackberries look big, fat and ready to be made into a home made smoothie so into the basket they go. 😱 once home I make up the drink and it is wonderful. The secret ingredient of T K Maxx's vanilla syrup for coffee is the finishing touch. 😀

Next on the black list is the black window sheets to reduce the temperature of my flat from sub tropical to acceptable. I have a big sheet and I have to measure and cut out the size that I want and stick it on with double sided stickers. 😳 I mis-measure and it doesn't quite fit but I'm too tired to start again so I leave the badly fitting blackout blind and at least it's a bit cooler. I don't have anyone screaming at me to 'put out that light'. 😱 

Goodness knows how I would have coped in the war. 😳

I finish watching Insomnia and for anyone that has seen it, here we switch colours from black to green. Well, I didn't see that coming, Caroline did it. 😳 and how many murders did she do ? First she suffocates Emma and Phoebe's mum then she slashes the jugular of Emma's teenage daughter's lover. 😱 and as for attempted murders, she does a hit and run on Phoebe. 😱 Then a stabbing on Emma. 😱 Next a suffocation on Will, Emma's little boy. 😱 Added to that is the sedation of Emma's husband and daughter. 😱😱 That's the whole cast she's tried to get rid of. 😳

She works in a care home, luckily it's just fiction. The end scene with the son doing the number thing though. 😱😱😱

Blackberry smoothie

Saturday 19th July

TV And Macbeth

Lots of heavy rain this morning, so much that the local park run was cancelled. 😱 The common will be like a bog and in it I will sink. 😭

I'm not sure what to do with myself today so I drink tea, coffee, Prosecco and when I run out of drinks I have some pizza. What's on TV ? 

I can't find anything that I want to watch, this is crappy.🤐 When the TV was black and white and shut down at midnight with the National Anthem (which the UK population got out of their armchairs for before putting thier whistling kettles on the stoves for bedtime Horlicks and wrapping hot bricks in newspaper to warm thier beds). 😱 and we only had three channels.....there was plenty to watch, we were spoilt for choice.

Maybe there is too much choice today or we are not so easily pleased ?

I finally decide on an old black and white version of Macbeth. 😱 Of all Shakespeare's plays this is my favourite. It has such atmosphere. The best bit for me is Macbeth saying the following....

"Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". 😳

It reminds us of how brief and final life and death can be. 😭

Macbeth

Sunday 20th July

Spoons At Spoons

Lunch at Clapham Junction Spoons with Margaret and we go shopping first as I want a new washing up bowl.

It has to be red. I have this thing with colour coded rooms. My kitchen has red accessories so I want a red bowl. Considering that red is not an uncommon kitchen colour I am shocked 😱 at how few red bowls there are for washing up in. 

I spot one under a pile of grey and brown ones, it's round and my sink is square, (rectangular), I mean, who has a round sink ? 😳 Never mind, I take it, it's the type of shop that I love, you will always find something that you didn't know you needed in there. 😱 Like long handled teaspoons, I have bought four of them. 😱

Onwards to Spoons, it strikes me as funny that I have spoons in Spoons so I ask Margaret to take a photo. 😱 Somehow I don't think she sees it as hilarious as I do. 

I have this odd sense of humour. 🤐

Spoons at Spoons

Monday 21st July

I Take Myself To The Doctor

I'm going to the doctor as I'm fed up with having scaly arms and legs. 😱 I've asked for an appointment but I don't know when it will be. 😭

It's today, the doctor found my photos of my skin so alarming that she's seeing me immediately. 😱 I don't know whether to be happy about the appointment being so soon or scared because I'm being treated urgently. 😳

Ive seen the doctor, she gave me creams and an anti histamine pill which promises to knock me out. 😱

Red skin

Tuesday 22nd July

A Rock For Margaret

When Margaret and I were in Littlehampton, I picked some stones off the beach. My plan was to colour them in. This I did with one of them detailing our trip. 

Meanwhile, Tina had rung and wanted a drink so I took the finished rock to show her. We had a drink in Tooting Spoons then back at her house and whilst I drank, Tina wrapped the rock. 😱

It looked wonderful when finished and Margaret had a glorious time unwrapping it on Wednesday. She was very tidy as well. 

Margaret unwrapping her rock

The Littlehampton Rock

Wednesday 23rd July

I Get The Emergency Services Out And We Lose Ozzy

I was taking Margaret's rock round to her and stayed for a cup of tea, then we were off to M&S for lunch. 😳 Next thing I'm collapsed on the ground and my eye hit a wooden step. 😱😱😱 I'm unconscious having a seizure so an ambulance is called, meanwhile, as I happen to be almost outside a fire station four crew come to help. 😀 I'm not on fire but they help medically with me and I'm very grateful. 😀 Margaret is given a chair.

When I do come round I don't make any sense for a time. 😳 Then the ambulance whisks me off to hospital where there is a four hour waiting time. I take part in a drug trial for head injuries and I'm given a scan. I have another seizure. I lose my Ozzy T shirt and underwear. 😱 I'm admitted. 😭

I have lost my Ozzy T Shirt on the day The Prince of Darkness's death was announced. 😭 I loved Ozzy, his bewilderment was so infectious and Paranoid was a masterpiece. 

I go from resus to majors to a ward where I'm in my hospital gown. Luckily, I still have my trousers. 😳 

I'm holding onto them so I sleep in them. 😱

Me in hospital 

Thursday 24th July

Bruises And Bed

I wake up to a choice of cornflakes or porridge. It reminds me of Butlins in the 60s but without the dancing girls. 😱

I've got needles going in me so I stay put until I can get up. I've ordered my lunch and seen a few doctors so I have a nap. 😳

My mobile is dying 😱 but at least we are in hospital. There isn't much else to do so I have a rest and watch the goings on around me. I have another doctor to see tomorrow so they keep me in another night. 

I have fish and chips and sleep in my trousers again in case they take them away. 😳

A shiner 😳

Friday 25th July

I Go Home

I wake up to porridge or cornflakes and again am transported back to 60s Butlins. 😳 It isn't so much fun where I am though. 😭

I realise that I haven't done much exercise in the last few days so I try stretching to see if I can reach the bed rail then try to touch my toes. 😱

I can tell the doctors are impressed cos they discharge me. 😀 I just have to see the skin doctor. Then the wait for the discharge letter and medication. 😱 I will go for a smoke. Oh I can't, I don't have my Ozzy T Shirt that I arrived in or any T Shirt for that matter, or thinking about it, any underwear. I do seem to have lost a lot of clothing since my admission two days ago. 😱 It's not that I arrived with a suitcase, I only had the clothes I was wearing but I couldn't hold onto them. 😳

A nurse finds me a man's pajama top, it at least fastens at the front. The 155 bus driver may get to see more than he expected or wanted but I can't help that. 😳 I arrived in clothes that I don't now have and I'm not getting a cab home. 

I buy a phone charger and assure friends that I didn't kill myself over Ozzy dying - just my T Shirt. 😭 Margaret is ok and is going away.

I don't blame her, I'm a lot to cope with.

I am released in my Pajama top and no underwear but I do still have my trousers on and off I go carefully to get the bus home. 😀

In my man's pyjama top

Saturday 26th July

I Stay Home

Waking up in my own bed is great. 😀 I don't have to go out and the Emergency Services need a day off so I'm staying home today. 😱 My face is pretty messy as well. I don't want people thinking I'm a victim. 😳

I tidy up and watch TV - Little House on the Prairie is rerunning, it's kids TV but the amount of adults that love it. 😀 I don't feel like doing much anyway so some brain numbing TV is right in order. 😱

Life seemed so simple back then, they worked hard no one can deny that but there was no TV, PCs, phones etc etc and medical care was limited. You seemed to resolve any family squabbles as you had to live together or leave and kids couldn't just storm off to thier bedrooms and watch thier TVs. 😱

Final thoughts, I, couldn't have a bread maker on the prairie and Hovis wouldn't bake it for me and deliver 😭 and what would I do without my milk frother. ? 😱

I prefer it today to how it was on the prairie. No Bowie either. 😱 

Me with a Bowie picture grateful I'm not on the prairie 

Sunday 27th July

In The Pub

Tired of staying home I arrange to meet Margaret and we go to church for a good sing. My face is a mess but never mind, I don't have to answer any questions, if friends want to know what happened they can read it here. 🤐

I deserve a drink so Helen comes to meet us afterwards and off we go to the Bowls Club next door. I take it easy and just have two glasses. 😱 I am just out of hospital. 😳

I forget to take a photo. 😭 Here's a random one for you instead. 😀

When we were young 😳

Monday 28th July

People Are So Good

I want to take this opportunity to see the good in people that we come into contact with every day. 😀

When I had my seizure in the street I wasn't classed as a medical emergency as I wasn't bleeding, I wasn't having a heart attack or a stroke, I was breathing, ok, I'd hit my head but there were more urgent cases than me so it took 90 minutes for the ambulance to come. 

Id been considerate enough to pass out nearly outside a fire station so a fire engine turned up. My friend said a man went to fetch them. They were great, medically trained and four stayed with me until the ambulance could get to me and they handed over. 😀 Apparantly if it is a minor injury needing medical attention and the ambulance is under strain the fire services sometimes asked to assist if able. 

I was really impressed and grateful to them and everyone who assisted in the street and at St.Georges in Tooting. Thank You. People are so caring. 😀

Also, on Monday I went to the Chemist to pick up some medication and the Pharamist made sure that I hadn't been beaten up when looking at my face. 😱 He wanted to be sure, it looked like I had but I assured him I hadn't. 

Also, to all those who backed off when I didn't want to talk about it, thank you. 😀 

And to any of my long distance friends who let me rant ..... 🥰

Me on Monday 

Tuesday 29th July

Breakfast And Prosecco 

I meet Margaret and we take a Thank You card into the Fire Station. It's the least that I can do to show that I am grateful for their help on Wednesday. 😀

Then it's on the bus and off to Clapham Spoons for breakfast. It's tinged with a bit of sadness as Margaret is off on her Summer holiday. To be honest, she needs a rest from my adventures so I hope that she does have a good time. 

A bottle of Prosecco went down well and we came home where I continued my recovery with an afternoon in front of the TV and a long phone call with Tina. 😀

Margaret and me in Clapham Spoons

Wednesday 30th July

A Rose For Mum

It's Mum's Birthday ❤️ She died in 2020 but I have photos of her up and I often think of her. She was a character. 😱 

Evacuateed as a child, sometimes happy, sometimes not, she loved the Countryside and spent happy times away from bombs in London being sent to Somerset although they were tinged with sadness as one of the 'Evacuee Children' and far from her parents whilst so young. 😭

We didn't seem to have a lot in common but we got on (with the odd argument). 😳 I was after all a teenager. 😱

Once we were both married, with homes and Husbands and I had a full time job there wasn't a lot of time left. 😭 All our time together came at the end of her life, I'd been Widowed just over a year, was still working and Mum was dying. 

Covid was beginning to bite in the UK and at least Mum didn't have to live through all that that would have led her through when she had no hope of surviving.

It's a rose for Mum. I wish that I could give it to her. ❤️

A rose that I made for Mum

Thursday 31st July

The Doctor Calls

I'm off to The Chemist to pick up yet more medication, I'm sure that I'm taking too much. They took me off any of the good stuff in hospital. 😭

I've asked my GP to ring to see if I should be taking Valium just for a bit. She phones and says no I don't need it. I tell her how difficult it is to move and breathe and we think a rib may be bruised or fractured. 😱

Still no Valium so just have to get on with it. At least I've got Bowie, Deep Purple and Processo. I'm 62, I should have bloody Meals on Wheels and Social Services tucking me in of a night. 😳

Haven't even got my old age pension yet, won't for another five years. 😭

You don't just have to fund your working years you have to fund your sodding retirement years as well. 

Another random photo to end what hasn't been my best month. 😭

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