The poor man, he wasn't used to being spoken to in this fashion at all! Zooming backwards, I'll fill you in.
She was standing next to a friend of hers one night last week, they were chatting about a book they had just read and were 'grazing' happily along a delicious buffet when a man, whom neither of them knew, came up and starting to put food on his plate said "hello".
Another person then came up and wanted to ask her friend about something, so she turned and asked the man who was just standing there "what do you do, or are you with the company?"
The unwise man then said those fateful words "I'm retired", (this annoys her even more than "I lunch" which is said by vacant-headed women, she replied, "oh, you poor man, how dreadful for you, so do you just sit in a chair all day watching television, do you read or listen to the radio" and put on her most bored face.
The man looked shocked and as he choked and spluttered, he said "No, of course not, I look after my two grand-daughters whilst their mother is at work, I'm an accountant so I do the books for a couple of local charities, I garden and I have just become Govenor of our local school".
She smiled her crocodile smile (pure Constance) and said "so why say that boring word, for it's real conversation stopper and untrue, for you appear to do lots of things".
I told you Constance was tough, well, so is my mum. Talking of tough.. she was greatly angered by what she saw today, grrr.
She went to sort out our beloved Susan's poor sore toe. A magic bag of tricks and her special foot sized tub slipped into Wheelie and off they trotted to Susan's house. After a scrummy Danish-style lunch, they washed up and she got everything ready, taking the lampshade off a little lamp which gave her more light to work by.
Susan was settled with both her feet in the warm water, she asked "which is your sore toe", Susan lifted that foot out of the water, she settled it on her lap, dried it with a towel and bent down to look.
OH.. NO.. OH, MY GIDDY AUNT.. for someone had, literally butchered all of Susan's toe nails! They were all cut right down to the quick, shaped into a U right down on the sides and all the nails were starting to grow under the skin. She put that foot back into the tub and lifted out the other foot.. it was, if possible, even worse.
"Who has done this, it can't have been you, you're a nurse?" Susan's response was as shocking as her toe nails, "it's the local clinic for Pensioners run by the NHS". Words DID not fail her and she said "you have to show this immediately to your GP, they have to stop whoever it is who is cutting toe nails like this from working there immediately"..
Then she set to work, it took three hours to get most of those toe nails free, three that will need another treatment at the week-end and one which needs to be treated for a fungal infection.
If you are nimble and flexible you can do your own feet when you get older. But if you cannot, then you must be very 'on the ball' if you go to a Chiropodist or Foot Clinic. Stop them IMMEDIATELY if they cut your toe nails in a curved shape, the nail is there specifically to protect the nail bed and should NEVER to cut too short.
Another thing is that toe nails are MUCH easier to cut if they are softened by being soaked in warm water. Don't hack at them with scissors, buy proper toe nail clippers and cut them straight across.
The other and most important thing is this..
When, and as, you get older, there is secretion that, if allowed to, will build up and harden and completely change the shape and formation of your toe nails. It is simple to deal with, soak your toes in warm water, then run the sharp end of an Orange Stick (these are VERY cheap and sold at all chemists / pharmacies) very gently underneath the nail and, equally gently, push the nail cuticle back with the other end, the blunt end.
Goodness me, I hate to think what someone else would do if they knew they had to 'deal' with my prehistoric Raptor-type feet!
It's bed time, no snow yet, will it miss Central London? Let's cross our fingers and toes!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 2nd, 2015.
She was standing next to a friend of hers one night last week, they were chatting about a book they had just read and were 'grazing' happily along a delicious buffet when a man, whom neither of them knew, came up and starting to put food on his plate said "hello".
Another person then came up and wanted to ask her friend about something, so she turned and asked the man who was just standing there "what do you do, or are you with the company?"
The unwise man then said those fateful words "I'm retired", (this annoys her even more than "I lunch" which is said by vacant-headed women, she replied, "oh, you poor man, how dreadful for you, so do you just sit in a chair all day watching television, do you read or listen to the radio" and put on her most bored face.
The man looked shocked and as he choked and spluttered, he said "No, of course not, I look after my two grand-daughters whilst their mother is at work, I'm an accountant so I do the books for a couple of local charities, I garden and I have just become Govenor of our local school".
She smiled her crocodile smile (pure Constance) and said "so why say that boring word, for it's real conversation stopper and untrue, for you appear to do lots of things".
I told you Constance was tough, well, so is my mum. Talking of tough.. she was greatly angered by what she saw today, grrr.
She went to sort out our beloved Susan's poor sore toe. A magic bag of tricks and her special foot sized tub slipped into Wheelie and off they trotted to Susan's house. After a scrummy Danish-style lunch, they washed up and she got everything ready, taking the lampshade off a little lamp which gave her more light to work by.
Susan was settled with both her feet in the warm water, she asked "which is your sore toe", Susan lifted that foot out of the water, she settled it on her lap, dried it with a towel and bent down to look.
OH.. NO.. OH, MY GIDDY AUNT.. for someone had, literally butchered all of Susan's toe nails! They were all cut right down to the quick, shaped into a U right down on the sides and all the nails were starting to grow under the skin. She put that foot back into the tub and lifted out the other foot.. it was, if possible, even worse.
"Who has done this, it can't have been you, you're a nurse?" Susan's response was as shocking as her toe nails, "it's the local clinic for Pensioners run by the NHS". Words DID not fail her and she said "you have to show this immediately to your GP, they have to stop whoever it is who is cutting toe nails like this from working there immediately"..
Then she set to work, it took three hours to get most of those toe nails free, three that will need another treatment at the week-end and one which needs to be treated for a fungal infection.
If you are nimble and flexible you can do your own feet when you get older. But if you cannot, then you must be very 'on the ball' if you go to a Chiropodist or Foot Clinic. Stop them IMMEDIATELY if they cut your toe nails in a curved shape, the nail is there specifically to protect the nail bed and should NEVER to cut too short.
Another thing is that toe nails are MUCH easier to cut if they are softened by being soaked in warm water. Don't hack at them with scissors, buy proper toe nail clippers and cut them straight across.
The other and most important thing is this..
When, and as, you get older, there is secretion that, if allowed to, will build up and harden and completely change the shape and formation of your toe nails. It is simple to deal with, soak your toes in warm water, then run the sharp end of an Orange Stick (these are VERY cheap and sold at all chemists / pharmacies) very gently underneath the nail and, equally gently, push the nail cuticle back with the other end, the blunt end.
Goodness me, I hate to think what someone else would do if they knew they had to 'deal' with my prehistoric Raptor-type feet!
It's bed time, no snow yet, will it miss Central London? Let's cross our fingers and toes!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 2nd, 2015.
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