Gardening

Gym and sunshine

Having missed my last gym session ( clash of dates/times ) I am quite looking forward to my next one today. In the event event my muscles refused to comply with my refreshed mental condition and we decided to shorten my routine. A glug or two of Lucozade reunited muscles with brain but I still opted to return home for a short relax, which inevitably ended when I fell asleep for the remaining afternoon.

Not a good day.

One of those unexplained rough days. It started with a headache which carried on all day.  I had a session with my neurologist which went well. She will tot up my scores and hopefully give me the results next week, which should guide us on a treatment regime. I Escaped to bed lunchtime and dreamed we had a party, reason unknown. By teatime I emerged from bed minus my headache and non-the wiser regarding the party.

Traffic jam and scan

We left Reading early for my appointment at St. George's hospital for a scan check on my brain tumour but arrived late due to a humongous traffic jam in Tooting, which had also caught hospital staff, so things evened out. Apart from my veins refusing to accept a cannula ,resulting in lots of loose blood and pain, all went well. My tumour remains unchanged from 12 months ago and we learnt a lot about gist's, or at least what very little the NHS know about them. Our lateness ejected us out into rush hour traffic, the London version dwarfing our Lecester ones. Hence our very late arrival at a very cold home.

We slept well.

Clean car and red kites

We took the car for a hand wash. It had become plastered in dirt and road salt, making seeing where we were going difficult at times. It looks immaculately clean now and back to its rightful colour.

Leicester won the Premier league ( originally quoted at odds of 5000/ 1) and Arsenal managed third ( as usual ).

We spent the early evening watching 3 Red Kites and 2 Buzzards feeding off cooked chicken carcasses in Marlene's large rear garden. Both species are on the "danger list" so are not a common sight, particularly at such close proximity.

Tomorrow we are off to St. Georges hospital in London for a check-up scan on my brain tumour and I will take the opportunity to seek information from the doctors  on my stomach "gist", if possible. Better late than never.

Bradfield Mayday Fayre

 Another sunny day and a trip through impressive countryside to a very old fashioned village Fayre at a

very upmarket village called Bradfield. Pig racing, maypole dancing, tombola and all the usual old treats, including ice cream cones. All good fun

Stoner house

A fabulous sunny, warm day. Brian and Marlene took us to one of the largest, still lived-in old mansions in England, Stoner House. The gardens are unspectacular but the house is wonderful and still lived in by members of the Stoner family. On the way there and back we passed wonderful scenery and a number of great pubs, one of which we stopped at, "The crooked Billet". We sat in the sunshine enjoying Persecco with rhubarb liqueur when Lynne demonstrated lightning reactions by saving her drink from sliding off the sloping table without spilling a drop.