Milann’s mutterings through retirement

Sun_Addict

Aw how sad 🙁 When Mr SA was in his throws of the brain tumour diagnosis he kept asking if anyone had told his mum what had happened despite the fact she’d been gone over 10 years 😐

milann

It is sad SA… You’ve certainly had some scary times with Mr SA 🙂

milann

It’s been a week of birthdays this week. It would have been my mil on 11th, my longest friends yesterday,  so we met for breakfast….its her first birthday since her Dh passed away before Christmas. It’s my brother’s birthday today. I’ve been to see him on the tram. It took forever as they were having points problems and we seemed to come to a standstill every mile or so. I was ready for a cuppa when I got there. He is 78 today, not in the best of health so I was pleased to see him and share some of his birthday cake. I was very pleased the temperature has dropped a few degrees, it did look as though it was going t pour down as it went quite and there were a few big drops but it blew over very quickly….the tram was very hot even with the drop in temperature. 

I’m at a routine hospital appointment tomorrow and meeting a friend on Thursday. Non of which will be high spend days, which will make up for the spendy birthdays.
I'm very disappointed in my sweet peas this year. I haven’t had one flower….they’re usually in full bloom by now. My brother’s were beautiful. I am wondering if I inadvertently picked a later flower variety. 

milann

My sweet peas still haven’t produced a flower, I’m so disappointed.
i had a hospital appointment last week as a NHS patient in a private hospital and one today in the local NHS hospital. I can’t fault the actual consultation in either as they were both performed by friendly, professional folk….but Oh My! the surroundings were on different planets never mind different worlds 😳. 

I had my 1 st swim since November this morning and I’d forgotten how much I missed it. I didn’t do much…12 lengths but  I plan to build on this…the pool is only at the corner of my road. Mr Google  says a 4 minute walk so I was there just after 8 this morning. I was really pleased it hasn’t affected my arm…..slowly, slowly as I build up again. 🤞😀

Money wise….ive had a couple of meals out but dinner time specials, so nothing too drastic….things are ticking along. 
My biggest spend this week hasn’t actually been a spend by me, but we took a relative who is affected by Alzheimer’s out for lunch and then to Asd@…..more for a look than anything else. They decided to do some shopping which was fine…..ready meals, and mainly cake and desserts 😂 when they got to the till they couldn’t find the card to pay…then eventually did find one which was cut in half. So I paid for the shopping. It was amazing how much the things (of which I buy a few occasionally) mounted up. Whilst I distracted relative Dh got in touch with the next of kin to inform of the cut up card. It appears the bank had cut the card in half as some low life have hacked a lot of money from the account. It’s still unclear if this will be refunded 😳 She will be getting a new card and POA will kick in. I also ended up leaving some cash as relative quite likes heading to her local eatery for lunch, which will be possible with the cash until the new card arrives.. It’s quite  worrying. 

I’ve made 8 jars of gooseberry jam this morning courtesy of goosegogs from ds garden. I made it for the 1st time last year and was surprised how nice it was….gooseberries are my least favourite fruit.
i was really pleasantly surprised this afternoon. I got off 1 bus on my way home from the hospital and needed to walk a couple of minutes to the bus station for the bus home. As I got off the bus the heavens well and truly opened - it was bouncing and a river ran along the pavement. I didnt have a coat and my umbrella was at home. I passed a travel lodge so dashed in with the intention of buying a coffee whilst it passed over. The lady said the machine was broken so gave me a cup to go to the section used by the hotel guests where they had sachets of coffee, hot water and milk. She said no charge ….stay as long as you need to keep dry. It made my day 👍😁 Shows there are still some thoughtful folk out there 👍👍

WinterWarrior

What a lovely lady at the travel lodge.
and a trip to Asd@ must have been just what the doctor order for you relative. I wonder if they remember where the cake and money came from 😁

beanielou

Agree about the lovely TL lady.

milann

I walked into town with Dh this morning whilst he picked his new glasses up. Typical 😂😂he’s bought prescription sun glasses as it’s raining. We had a cuppa and bacon butty in Spoons. Less than £6 for the two of us. It was heavy rain again so we got on the bus home. We had a lovely new bus interchange last year and we went today and they’ve changed all the stands around. We couldn’t find our bus stand. It runs every hour and is a very quick direct route. We just about found it in time. There are a few buses we can get but they’re not as direct as this one, they all used to be more or less together so if one didn't turn up you could just get the next one. Now they’ve in completely different corners of the station. The local fb page is not happy 🥴😂….got to admit neither am I. I do love my bus pass. I’m quite pleased that the local buses are doing a trial in August and we can use them before 9.30. It’s not often I do go out before 9.30 but sometimes for appointments etc it’ll make a big difference.

milann

Had a few spendy days recently. I renewed my senior rail card, £35, had a trip to Costco and stocked up on a few things - £100 spent but it would have cost a lot more had I bought the same in local supermarkets. I also paid for a years membership to the local gym. I’m on a scheme run by the local NHS and it was £240 for the year which is a saving of nearly £200 from the old gym I went to….it might not be as nice and have as many facilities but I only really want to swim so I’ll happily take the saving and come home for a cuppa instead of going in the cafe 👍
i paid for the gym membership and had an early (for me) swim, came home and did some ironing then managed to stub my toe on the ironing board as I was putting things away. I heard it crack and now have a beautiful purple toe and foot. I’m pretty sure it’s broken. I haven’t been anywhere with it. I strapped it to another toe and once it’s in my shoe it’s ok. Not the best to walk on if I’m in bare feet. It’ll be fine in a day or so and I’ll get back swimming.
i was quite impressed with my GP surgery as I’ve been having a niggly problem for a good while now. I’ve had it investigated before but nobody came up with any answers. It was particularly irritating earlier in the week and was getting me down just as I was passing the chemist so I nipped in and asked for advice. She said there was something available but needed a prescription, so to contact the GP. I tried to phone for an appointment on Thursday afternoon…the surgery sent me a link….i filled in the questions and long story short I had an appointment this morning at 9.30. I didn’t class it as an emergency so was very surprised to get a face to face appointment on a Saturday. Upshot is I need to go for blood tests and GP can’t prescribe medication he suspects it needs without a consultant’s recommendation. Not sure if I’ll need to see a specialist or if the specialist gives the GP permission to prescribe on the evidence he sends…..but it all depends on bloods. 3 week wait for appointment with the nurse to take blood samples, then I need another GP appointment once the results are back. Don’t suppose I’ll get any answers for several months but I’ve set the ball rolling.
ive been out with a close friend this afternoon. We put the world to rights and had a glass or so to celebrate the lives of some recently deceased friends. The cocktails were 2 for 1 so I finally tried a Kir Royale…think I might be hooked 😂😂

beanielou

Glad that you enjoyed your Kir Royale. 🥂🤗🤗

amber03

Gosh milann you had a much better experience at the doctors than I did this week. I think I hurt the top of my shoulders carrying a heavy cage. It was very painful when I started to walk or did any lifting of stuff. I hardly ever go to the doctors, rang them up to ask how I go about making an appointment. They said the doctor would ring me, which he did about four hours later. Asked me to move my head to the left then the right. Said I probably had hurt it at the top of my spine and make an appointment with the physio. Two days later she said the same to me as the doctor had. Gave me a sheet with 3 exercises to do and that was that. So it seems my doctors can diagnose with out physically seeing you now. It is a bit worrying.x