I am a slacker.

I really do mean to blog more often,honest guv.
Trouble is I rarely feel up to the brain effort involved.
So here we go on a massive catch up.
Daughter Sarah whose new baby died last year has now broken up with her partner and has decided she needs a break and time away,we have all encouraged her to such an extent that she is selling up and going to Australia on a working visa for a year.It will be absolutely the thing for her.Unfortunately guess who gets to foster her two cats for a year? yup as of the 22nd of April I will have my one evil moggy and her two in residence.
I went for my day on the the neurology ward at Addenbrookes hospital,they obviously have a different meaning for the word day .......I was there by 7.30 having an MRI before 8am and had had my lumbar puncture and 17 blood tests and was on my way home by 10.30 am.Why the letter said anything about a doctor  I don't know ,I didn't even see a passing neurologist,I did however see the nurse practitioner who told me I was walking badly(I thought I was having a good day)took my bloods,she seemed very nice except she managed to avoid telling me what my blood tests were for no matter how often I asked,I found this quite belittling to be honest.Still the reading matter was entertaining in the waiting room.Yes this is a photo of the available selection !I won't get any test results for at least another week,I am just dreading the thought I may have something hereditary that I may have passed to the kids and grandkids.

A week or so ago I had an incident with my bicycle,the chain snapped,got caught in the wheel and the bike immediately threw me in a hedge,I looked around and saw no one was looking(phew) then spent ten minutes trying to disentangle disobedient legs from the bike,the poor thing is so worn out that replacing the chain makes no sense as the gears and brakes etc are all shot,it is going to be cheaper to buy a new one.This incident got me in quite a tizzy though as I cannot walk far enough to get to work I have a borrowed friends daughters bike(bicycle Chinese whispers there) for the minute.
I have just found out I am losing my job at the end of May(not related to neurological issues) The boss has said that as I will probably only get a weeks redundancy pay would it be worth her getting rid of me ostensibly for health reasons,I am not very brave and told her today that I would prefer the legitimate route and will fight it out with the benefits system when the time comes.
Bruce my tiny light Sussex bantam hen sadly died yesterday,she went to sleep and didn't wake up,she had a good life though,almost fourteen years of free roaming and meal-worms,if only all hennies could have it that easy.
Today it was brought home to me just how badly I walk,there was something of a head wind as I was cycling home from work,so I got off and started walking,doing my usual and using the bike as somewhat of a walking aide.A chap stopped his car and came up to me and said"are you alright dear? do you need me to push the bicycle anywhere for you" I thanked him for his kindness and explained that I didn't need any help.
The funny thing is I can walk perfectly normally if I am walking backwards,just shows that it is the wiring not the legs that are broken.



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and here http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/australia-day-decorations.aspx

Oops ! I did it again !

So there I am minding my own business when I see a small child being really quite awful to her pet guinea pigs,her Mum said she was desperately looking for a home for them...........Grubby just laughed and suggested I apply for charitable status as an animal sanctuary.........

Experimental dyeing (note the 'E') and the cats near death experience.

On Monday I dyed my hair,sadly I had bought the wrong colour,instead of blonde I became white.So I have been to the chemist and purchased some more,they didn't have my usual colour again,so afterwards I may have either a bald head,an even whiter colour or be back to a nice shade of blonde.Wish me luck.
The cat was mewling on the kitchen windowsill the other day,so I opened the window and let him in with lots of mumbling about the fact he has his own cat flap,The picture is a view of a cornered cat from the bedroom above.      Well today I watched him run up the garden pursued by Whiskas the ex-battery hen,a bit of irony there, a chicken saved from the cat food factory torturing the cat,the long and short of it is, the hen chased the cat up the garden and cornered him so his only option was to jump onto the windowsill for safety.I wasn't laughing too much as I opened the window so the cat could come in.                                              

Thoughtless thursday

The sound of bigfoot ? linky I doubt it.
Send in the witch doctor linky a play on a news event from a while back.
Something must be seriously wrong with the NHS -- this guy named Stephen Hawking seems to still be alive in spite of their best efforts...linky
We love the NHS linky I like this show of polite-ish patriotism.