My blogging this week
Has been done haphazardly
And not too often
This was my weekend to work so I missed out on the gorgeous weather yesterday. Today was a bit grimmer and cooler but it didn’t matter as we stayed in anyway. Ted and Beryl, who rarely travel very far nowadays, agreed to come over for a meal and a game of Scrabble. It was lovely to see them, and to play host to them for a change rather than it being the other way round. Philippa was incredibly nervous. She’s not the most confident cook on Earth and Beryl is an absolute wonder in the kitchen so Philippa thought her grub might not be up to scratch. In the end she did herself proud and her ‘Roast Lamb a la Rosemary with dauphin potatoes’ was a delight.
Beryl may have to have a knee replacement op sometime soon. That was a bit of a downer on the day but she doesn’t seem too bothered by the idea and she’s already looking forward to being more mobile when it’s over.
“It’s so hard to clean the bathroom floor when you feel like you’re kneeling on a knife” she said. Bless her. Ted is taking it all with his usual ‘who cares?‘ frontage, but I know he must be worried. It sounds like a huge operation to me but Beryl insists it’s just a routine procedure these days. I’m now deciding whether to look it all up on the internet in an attempt to allay my fears or to just leave it in case I uncover something horrible.
With the state of the NHS as it is, it’s unlikely she’ll get it done before Christmas anyway, so I think I’ll do my usual thing and just ignore it until the day it actually happens. I might call it Rory’s First Law Of Avoidance - “Things can’t bother you if you flatly refuse to think about them.”
RC 19-4-15
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