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I had a Doctors appointment this morning. We covered a range of topics around my persistent cough and retirement. I felt it was quite useful. I haven’t had a chance to pick up the new medicine but I will do tomorrow. Hopefully, that will help things. Aurora has been with us overnight. She woke upContinue reading “1869 – The Day”

Why is it, that when i was working, an 8 hour day seemed so long, yet now I am retired it seems so short? it looks like that on a typical day, I am only able to get one or two things done, and then the day is gone – and just for clarity, IContinue reading “1868 – The week so far”

I had a couple of things lined up for today, and in the most part, with one exception I didn’t do any of them. I was going to do an e-consult with the Doctor, didn’t get around to it. It’s OK I can do it tomorrow as it’s in readiness for the Thursday appointment. IContinue reading “1867 – A Nothing day…Kind of”

Apart from this wretched cough, today has been really quite delightful. It really doesn’t matter that it was cold, the clear sky gave the sun a chance to share some of its warmth, even if the air had a bite to it. I said hello to several people whilst out on the walk, and weContinue reading “1866 – U3A Mostly”

We were fairly late to rise, but that was OK, after all, it is Sunday. Breakfast went well, I’m on a bit of a porridge thing at the moment. We then had a few jobs to do. One of which was to empty the kitchen bins. This meant my first venture into the open forContinue reading “1865 – Should have…”

We walked into town again today. We did the Charity shops. We ended up at the ferry end of the high street and went in to Cafe #1 for a drink. Cafe#1 is very popular. Understandably so. What with Poppins and the Gallery I’ve now visited 3 Cafes. In Fairness, Cafe#1 is a relatively frequentContinue reading “1864 – Exploring Cafes”

I actually managed to get out today. My intention was to get to the nearest bus stop, but when I reached Stokes Road, I was confronted with this. There’s obviously been a bit of a communications breakdown, as it appears that no noe had told the bus service. I was watching this, heard a busContinue reading “1863 – Road Closures”

For whatever reason, I was going to give Elayne a lift to the Ferry. It didn’t happen, but we did reach the point where we were sat in the car. Having reached a point where the decision was made that Elayne wasn’t going to the ferry, I looked at Elayne and said “We are inContinue reading “1862 – I get out”

I am not suggesting for one minute that I am not ill. I have had a persistent chronic cough since well before retirement started. A friend has suggested that it could be an intolerance – I think that is a possibility. I have a Drs appointment next week, I’ll raise it as a possibility. I’veContinue reading “1861 – Structure”

As it stands at the moment, formally, I’m still in employment. I don’t officially finish until the 2nd of Jan. I’ve felt like I’ve just been on a bit of Chrsitmas leave, so not that much different to normal. That’ll change on Frday, but I’m getting used to it now. I just need to bringContinue reading “1860 – Retirement”