Knees' up, pat him on the bo-bo................

Let's hear him laugh. (Popular song from the 1950s, much used by The Goons)

I have been loitering around ebay a bit this week. My original intention was just to buy a couple of Micro Scalextric cars for my grandson. Then I spotted the prices that Micro Scalextric was going for so I bought some track. Then I began bidding on a couple of second hand sets. It's all getting out of hand and I have still spent less than twenty quid in total.
When I arrived at the dentist, the receptionist looked at me blankly and did a quick search of her diary. I had arrived a day too soon! The original appointment was for today but it was brought forward by a week. I then picked up on the original reminder slip as my second appointment and just turned up. Still, I was seen and the stitch came out and I still feel great so alls well etc.
I have yet (16.15) to have a message about my baby so I am assuming she won't be ready for me until tomorrow. I miss her.

A good knee is hard to find.

Well, Hazel had her operation, I lost my tooth and the Merc went in for it's very expensive transplant.

Of the three, the tooth was, by far, the least painful. The Merc simply needed to be organised and paid for. So the only major trauma was to my wallet. Hazel, however, was in a great deal of pain almost from leaving the medical centre. She didn't sleep on Wednesday night and, within reason, neither did I. By Thursday night, I was crawling up the walls with sleep deprivation so I was very glad that Hazel did, at last, find some relief and get her head down. Things have got steadily better since but she won't be fully recovered for some time yet.

janis went out to the transmissions garage and is being worked on as I write. I hope to collect her tomorrow.

Also tomorrow, I go to have my stitch removed. It still seems the least painful happening in the last week.

Life's a beach and then you fly?

Or something like that anyway.

This week was always going to be awkward because of the knee op for Hazel and the tooth extraction for me.

Now we have the new gearbox for janis to worry about as well. I imagine that, come Saturday, we will both be very glad that a new week is in the offing.

Hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy

Hazel has had a very painful knee for a couple of years, I have had a trick knee since age fourteen. They have never coincided before. Last week they did. I suspect that, in my case, it was mainly due to the major improvements in my back and neck mobility causing me to walk at a different angle. Today, just as mine is beginning to go away, Hazel tripped at work and has hurt her good leg as well as giving herself the beginnings of a black eye and some nasty carpet burns on her hands.

Caught at last.

I have, for many years, fought a rearguard action against mobile phones. I got along fine without them for sixty years, why should I need one now? Well, unfortunately, my job has changed slightly and the security system in use for all the computers on campus requires me to telephone in to a central point in order to be able to work on a computer in the field. For almost all situations, this means a mobile phone. So I am now carrying and using one at work at all times.....................
The up side is that I am learning more and more as I go and that pleases me greatly. I also seem to be getting fitter as the weeks go by, as my back and neck problems have almost completely gone. I was used to waking up each day with stiffness and, sometimes, pain. Now, all that seems to be a thing of the past. Woohoo!

There's a hamster loose aboot this house!

On Saturday, Lulu was disturbed by a scuttling noise behind a vent in her kitchen. She was concerned it might be something hairy so she sprayed a goodly amount of Dettol into the hole behind. She then forgot about it until the following day when Ian said, "anyone know where the hamster is?". Instant panic and a fast run down to the kitchen. Ian removed the cover and a little black nose appeared followed by an even blacker body. This is a very lucky hamster.