Saturday, 20 August 2016

Day 2426 (19/08/2016)

This month has flown by and still so much to do.

Importantly I managed to get a haircut :-)



Finished the Chinese, looking forward to a relaxing weekend.



Friday, 19 August 2016

Day 2425 (18/08/2016)

Very busy in the office.

My wife visited her mum in the evening, so I arranged a Chinese for when she got home.







Day 2424 (17/08/2016)

Still busy in the office and went to the gym.

In the afternoon I  went to see my Mum & Dad as our eldest friend was visiting. I am close & very fond of many of my relatives by Carol is the only person I call Aunty.

It stems from our growing up in Buntingford, where we were all very close.

Those times in Buntingford were many many years ago and I doubt any of us are the same people, thing have changed so drastically for us all but our closeness shall remain forever.



Day 2423 (16/08/2016)

Had BT round again to sort out my phone line & broadband and now it is super fast and the phone is again usable.

As I had to wait in for the BT man I didn't manage to get to the gym.

Lots to do at work. This month seems to have flown past and I have hardly done anything that I intended.



Day 2422 (15/08/2016)

A busy medical day.

Firstly I had an appointment at the hospital about my finger, although even the Doctor couldn't see the point. It might heal, it might not; either way most the the time you use your hand the fingers are bent, so it will make little difference (but will be a pain whilst typing and blowing my nose etc).

Then off to the osteopath to deal with a pain in my neck. I hadn't been for around 10yrs but whilst laying there could remember how much I hated the feeling of my spine being clicked into place and my head being twisted until it clicks.  Saying that, as soon as he did it I felt so much better.

Then off to the gym for a cycle.




Day 2420 & 2421 (13 & 14/08/2016)

A weekend of work.

One of the advantages of living in our current house is that the ice-cream van stop right outside, sometimes on a hot day it's very hard to resist.


On the Sunday I did a bit of washing up, being careful with my bad hand, unfortunately I cut myself quite badly on a chipped lasagna dish.


So now I have two bad hands.

Made a a lovely roast pork for dinner.



Sunday, 14 August 2016

Day 2419 (12/08/2016)

Busy in the office but had to pop out to do a few things in town, including getting the car washed.

 

In the evening we had a very nice spinach and ricotta cannelloni which my wife had made from scratch.


Very nice.





Saturday, 13 August 2016

Day 2418 (11/08/2016)

It was annual hedge trimming day, not a euphemism or an event celebrated by many but something we have celebrated for the last 20yrs.


It always looks so much better after the hedge-man has been and is defiantly money well spent.

I went to the gym but didn't have a great deal of energy, so left after a short cycle.



Friday, 12 August 2016

Day 2417 (10/08/2016)

I had meant to go to the gym at around 10am as I had a blood donor session at 2pm but I got a bit tied up and busy so I didn't get there until after 12 and finished working out at 1pm.


I managed to cool down a bit and have a biscuit before giving blood but I'm sure they don't recommend this.


Usually I struggle to drink the litre of water before giving blood but today I had two full glasses and some biscuits. Then I gave blood but they had to try both arms, so it was a bit more painful than usual.



Thankfully there weren't any side effects from going to the gym but I made sure I re-fuelled on tea and biscuits before driving home.


Then home to more tea and a bit of work.

My wife went to visit her mum again, so I got some fish & chips for when she got home.



Thursday, 11 August 2016

Day 2416 (09/08/2016)

Busy in the office, which really isn't helped by having my finger in a splint, then back to the gym, again.


How long can I keep this up?



Day 2415 (08/08/2016)

Quite a bit to do at work (the joy of being an international businessman is that there always seem to be things to do, calls to take and meetings to have, I am really hoping that I can convince a lady I know to leave her secure well paid job to take over running it for us).

In the afternoon I went to the gym, for the first time in many months.


Usually I would start of easy by going swimming but with my bad finger I had to go straight on the exercise bike and cross trainer.

Then off  to Bristol in the afternoon / evening to see Mary, then stopped of for a cup of teas at Gary & Elaine's on the way back.



Day 2413 & 2414 (06 & 07/08/2016)

A reasonably relaxing weekend, well lots of work to do but no real deadlines.

My wife visited her mum on Saturday, as she has left the hospital and is now at a rehabilitation centre for a few weeks, so I ordered a curry in the evening, which we finished Sunday.


Very nice.



Saturday, 6 August 2016

Day 2412 (05/08/2016)

It was a fairly early start and a train journey into London, where I past a few sites.




Then it was a few hours with a  psychiatrist for one of my claims against the police.

I managed to grab some late breakfast / lunch before catching the train back home.


Then home to a lovely steak dinner.




Day 2411 (04/08/2016)

Very busy with work updating things for next month and the coming year. Not as easy it would have been if I had the use of all of my fingers.




Day 2410 (03/08/2016)

I did my scratch cards from my birthday.


All those cards, with a potential of £Millions and I had only 1 winning, with a £10.

Still busy with work, updating things with the new company logo & colours.



Day 2409 (02/08/2016)

Our cleaner had a day off so we both went to Bristol to see my mother-in-law who was still in hospital.

As we were at the hospital I took the opportunity to visit A&E to get my finger checked out (I had researched it online but my family were not content with this and had old me I needed to see a proper Doctor).

My research was just about right but I ended up with a new splint and instructions not to bend my finger at all for 6 weeks and to have a bit of physio.


6 weeks without bending my index finger on my left-hand, when I'm left-handed, is going to be a pain.



Day 2408 (01/08/2016)

August already, so it's Kylie time.


Being the start of August the weather was awful but we had a great night at the Ask restaurant in town, celebrating Elaine's Birthday.

 


It was really nice to all get together, which we seem to do less and less.




Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Day 2406 & 2407 (30 & 31/07/2016)

Not a very relaxing weekend as still lots of work to do (it could be a busy 5 years).

My wife went to visit her mum again on the Saturday as she is still in hospital, so a made dinner for when she got home, using some Ostrich steaks that she had bought.


They were OK but hopefully she wont buy them again.

On Sunday I did a nice Greek style starters.


Then a Spanish style paella for dinner, with a couple bottles of Presecco :-)


Very nice :-)



Day 2405 (29/07/2016)

Still much the same, doing work and feeling older :-(




Friday, 29 July 2016

Day 2404 (28/07/2016)

Basically back to work and finishing off the Mexican in the evening.

I was still clearing some work, so in the evening my wife drove to Bristol and back to see her mum who is still in hospital.