Tuesday 12th January 2021
So yesterday after admitting that I wrote September instead of January, it seems from my hawk-eyed readers that I still managed to get the date wrong by putting 12th, back to the school report, ‘must try harder’!
9.30 Another mild day and some rain so it’s going to be dodge the showers for our walk. I have logs arriving today, so hopefully that will also be between showers.
11.45 Although uneventful, I really enjoyed walking this morning, so nice not to have to take gloves and extra head wear etc and we did manage to dodge the rain. We were out a bit longer than usual rather due to Audrey’s unusual behaviour yesterday. My friend Pat very kindly dropped a couple of tennis balls onto my front step, as she was passing on her walk. She had found them in a cupboard and thought of Audrey, as it happened, at a very opportune time because all the balls have been lost now apart from one rather raggy one. I gave one to Audrey to play with for a while but this time instead of playing with it for ten minutes or so and discarding it, she played with it on and off practically all day and then in the evening she brought it into the lounge and before I realised
what she was doing, systematically completely destroyed it into a hundred little bits. She is not a destructive dog, so it surprised me a lot. Was she bored? Was she trying to tell me something as she did this at my feet? I have no idea but the best I could do was extend the walk today.
I am due to go in for a small op on my shoulder early in February, an appointment now a year plus overdue, so I am not holding my breath that it will still happen given the current crisis but today I am waiting for the pre op assessment for which I have to be available between twelve and four thirty. I thought for a minute that that was how long the appointment would be! I am very glad it is by phone and I do not have to go in but I am also rather intrigued as to how they are going to achieve this by phone, normally blood tests, ECG, swab for possible infections etc. There will be a COVID-19 test three days before the procedure. Well, all will become clear when they phone.
13.05 I haven’t mentioned the knitting lately. I have knitted and undone so many times now that even I am amazed by my reluctance to admit defeat. The only way I can describe the very complicated pattern is to liken it to a very mundane cook trying out a cordon bleu recipe and finding that rather than step by step, it is assumed you are such a master chef that you will magically understand the next bit. However, I have finally sussed it I think and I am going to dedicate a couple of hours this afternoon to trying to finish it. If I ever do finish, a picture will, of course, follow.