Fear not, Dear Readers, she has not run away and joined the Army. She has dodgy knees and appalling hearing so they wouldn't take her anyway!
It was a day of fasting, taking pills and liquids and staying very close to home, you know what I mean without me having to spell it out for you.
It was all in preparation for a Colonoscopy this morning. Fascinating what goes on inside of one, is it not? The doctor complimented her on "having such clean and shiny plumbing" which made them all laugh.
But the best laugh came when he told her, which she had actually seen for herself, that there was absolutely nothing evil, horrid or nasty lurking in her 'pipes'. Isn't that good news!
And although she chose not to be sedated before the proceedure, she was mighty weary having not slept very well last night and she went straight to bed when she got home. Our sweet friend,Tereza, collected her from the hospital and had offered her coffee but her legs and energy were flagging so home and bed was where she came to.
Good to have some stores in a cupboard for she wanted something very unusual (for her) to eat, she suddenly wanted baked beans with an egg on top, she does something curious to baked beans, to increase the amount of fibre, she adds two small teaspoons of Oat bran.
It bulks the sauce up a bit and with a dash of chilli and black pepper it becomes just what you need when you haven't eaten for thirty hours!
Tomorrow is another day as Scarlet said so wisely and she needs to replenish our supply of that yummy Sauerkraut, my Rye bread and her Lithuanian bread, all of these items come from shops up on Streatham Hill, so she will pop into see Mala and look at how the basement progress is getting on whilst she is up there.
Parson's Green Farmer's Market is on our list for Sunday, followed by a trip out to the allotment. But that, of course, depends on.. is it going to rain or not this week end?
If it is raining, then she plans instead of going gardening, to make a quick trip to Brixton to collect some plants that she saw a couple of weeks ago. The seller said he is there every Sunday.
The weather forecast for this coming week end is dire, with reports of huge amounts of rain, the like of which has caused chaos in the South of France around Var and elsewhere along that coast.
But why is she surprised? It is Glastonbury week end.. it always rains for the Glastonbury Festival!
So there you are, that is why we have been quiet on the posting front but we are back and I am so very happy to report that all is well, we still have no idea what causes her to haemorrhage but at least we know for certain that she has no GIST growing inside her, they are not nice things GISTs.
A plate of beef tomato, goaty curd, spring onion, fresh basil, olive oil, chilli flakes and black pepper is a'calling us. I hope that you too have scrummy yumyum for your supper?
And I am very pleased to say that I have lots of truly delicious recipes to share with you this week. With fruit and particularly of yellow and red gooseberries and all the currants.. black, red and white.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
June 27th, 2014.
Post Script:
GIST stands for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour.
It was a day of fasting, taking pills and liquids and staying very close to home, you know what I mean without me having to spell it out for you.
It was all in preparation for a Colonoscopy this morning. Fascinating what goes on inside of one, is it not? The doctor complimented her on "having such clean and shiny plumbing" which made them all laugh.
But the best laugh came when he told her, which she had actually seen for herself, that there was absolutely nothing evil, horrid or nasty lurking in her 'pipes'. Isn't that good news!
And although she chose not to be sedated before the proceedure, she was mighty weary having not slept very well last night and she went straight to bed when she got home. Our sweet friend,Tereza, collected her from the hospital and had offered her coffee but her legs and energy were flagging so home and bed was where she came to.
Good to have some stores in a cupboard for she wanted something very unusual (for her) to eat, she suddenly wanted baked beans with an egg on top, she does something curious to baked beans, to increase the amount of fibre, she adds two small teaspoons of Oat bran.
It bulks the sauce up a bit and with a dash of chilli and black pepper it becomes just what you need when you haven't eaten for thirty hours!
Tomorrow is another day as Scarlet said so wisely and she needs to replenish our supply of that yummy Sauerkraut, my Rye bread and her Lithuanian bread, all of these items come from shops up on Streatham Hill, so she will pop into see Mala and look at how the basement progress is getting on whilst she is up there.
Parson's Green Farmer's Market is on our list for Sunday, followed by a trip out to the allotment. But that, of course, depends on.. is it going to rain or not this week end?
If it is raining, then she plans instead of going gardening, to make a quick trip to Brixton to collect some plants that she saw a couple of weeks ago. The seller said he is there every Sunday.
The weather forecast for this coming week end is dire, with reports of huge amounts of rain, the like of which has caused chaos in the South of France around Var and elsewhere along that coast.
But why is she surprised? It is Glastonbury week end.. it always rains for the Glastonbury Festival!
So there you are, that is why we have been quiet on the posting front but we are back and I am so very happy to report that all is well, we still have no idea what causes her to haemorrhage but at least we know for certain that she has no GIST growing inside her, they are not nice things GISTs.
A plate of beef tomato, goaty curd, spring onion, fresh basil, olive oil, chilli flakes and black pepper is a'calling us. I hope that you too have scrummy yumyum for your supper?
And I am very pleased to say that I have lots of truly delicious recipes to share with you this week. With fruit and particularly of yellow and red gooseberries and all the currants.. black, red and white.
PipPip.. Dear Readers.. PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
June 27th, 2014.
Post Script:
GIST stands for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour.
GeeGee I'm so glad your mistress has clean plumbing. Whew !
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