10:00 We think that "our mouse" may have died. Since it escaped a day or two ago from our chimney back to our larder, or as the mouse probably calls it, to "my larder", we haven't seen any more droppings, and there's been no noise - there is however a smell probably consistent with it having died. But we'll have to see.
Poor mouse !!!!!
10:30 Lois and I went to our new dentist Melanie yesterday for a check-up, and as a result Melanie booked Lois in to have a tooth removed in January - the tooth had suddenly started throbbing on Sunday night. Melanie said, however, that Lois should get in touch if it became more painful, and she would prescribe a course of antibiotics.
Well who would have guessed? Lois's tooth has since then just got more and more painful, so she phones the dental surgery and arranges to pick up the prescription this morning.
11:00 We drive over the dentist's surgery and I wait in the car while Lois gets the prescription from the surgery and then calls at the pharmacy next door to get the pills.
I wait in the car while Lois gets her antibiotics
It's a shock when it comes to paying - it's a private dental surgery so we have to pay the "private medicine" price for the tablets, i.e. £11. My god! We're both used to getting prescriptions from our NHS doctor that don't cost a penny for us old codgers and crows. Yikes, £11 - that really hurts !!!!!
11:30 We drive home and then go for our 3-times-weekly walk on the local football field. The weather is raw and cold again, but at least there's no wind, which is nice.
While Lois gets our coffees from the coffee stand, I wait on the so-called
"Pirie Bench" and read about the COP deal struck in Glasgow
14:00 Nap time - and I open a new Amazon purchase - a bedside sound machine, which I set to "gentle waves", so we can imagine we're on a tropical beach somewhere, which is nice.
15:30 Sarah, our daughter who lives in Perth, Australia, with Francis and their 8-year-old twins, Lily and Jessie, has been making noises again about possibly moving back to the UK after 6 years, and perhaps even buying our house.
It's an old house with one or two little cracks in it, which we need to get looked at, to make sure they're not something to get worried about. I contact a surveyor's office in Bristol to arrange for an inspection next month.
16:00 A cup of tea on the couch, and Lois reads selected pieces from "Which?", the consumer magazine, while I munch on a currant bun - yum yum!
we sit on the couch with our tea and bun, while Lois
reads me selections from "Which?", the consumer magazine
Three or four weeks back we were expecting our other daughter Alison to be visiting us for a few days with her husband Ed and their 3 children, Josie (15), Rosalind (13) and Isaac (11), but the visit was cancelled because the children had been exposed to coronavirus at their schools. As it turned out, none of them developed the virus.
However, Lois and I bought in a large quantity of Cookshop ready meals in preparation for their visit, and these are taking up a huge space in our freezer. We need to start eating them up quickly because another large delivery will be due in a couple of weeks: this is the Christmas food we have ordered in case, for any reason, we can't get to Headley, Hampshire to spend Christmas with them at their crumbling Victorian mansion.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!!!
flashback to August: Alison's 46th birthday celebrations - (left to right)
Ed, Rosalind, Alison, Isaac and Josie, at their home in Headley
18:30 We have tonight's Cookshop meal, cottage pie : we're not eating the whole lot, as it's meant for 8 - we'll just cook it all and save the other 6 portions for other days coming up. We're not pigs haha !!!!
As well as being yum-yum in general, it's also good for Lois's tooth problem - should be easy to digest without too much biting and chewing, which is nice.
20:00 Lois feels too out-of-sorts tonight to take part in her sect's weekly Bible Class, so we both settle down on the couch to watch a performance of the musical "Kiss Me Kate" from a 2014 BBC Proms concert at the Albert Hall, London.
Cole Porter eh? You can't really beat him for songs and especially for his lyrics. What a guy!
One of our favourite songs tonight is a barnstorming perfomance of "I Hate Men" by Alexandra Silber, playing Kate / Lillia Vanessi.
The other one is a performance of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" by the two gangsters, played by James Doherty and Michael Jibson. Quote the bard, they advise, if you want to wow today's women.
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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