If someone gives you a 'Lemon', well, you make Lemonade, don't you? Or so the expression goes. Well, in our case, having had the flu, we have watched some magnificent television that we would not have seen if she hadn't been confined to bed.
There is a wonderful programme currently being shown on the magnificent Yellowstone Park, it is being shown over several nights and we are glued to it, plus I have seen a bird that made me go "Woooooo", yes, it was the Great Grey Owl. What an amazingly breathtaking bird.. the programme is on all animals in the park and the snow and the melting of it.
Beavers, Elk, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Sage Grouse, Muskrats, Snowfall, Waterlevels, Climate change.. watching three baby Great Grey Owls take their first flights was nerve racking, to say the least!
And before this programme tonight was Rick Stein in Berlin, she likes his recipes. And you all know how she loves fish and there was a great recipe for marinating a middle cut of Salmon. The recipe is too long for her to tap tonight but here, mes amis, folks, Dear Readers, is the website to which you can go and find it.. don't say I don't give you anything!
Beetroot-Cured-Salmon with Cucumber & Apple Pickle.
This delicious recipe can be found on: www.thehappyfoodie.co.uk.
Now, did I tell you she was going to have her bi-monthly test at Moorfields Eye Hospital? Well, she did. But first off we went to the bathroom and she sploshed about in hot smelly water for a long time breathing in the essential oils, too numerous to name (I can't remember which she used to be truthful but Eucalyptus and Peppermint were certainly amongst the smellies.
Then she got dressed in layers and layers of clothing, remembered her glasses, both long long and short distance for the consultant, wrapped a fine scarf around her head and neck, then pulled one of Darling Pat's hats.
And went off to collect her facial mask that she had ordered at Boots.. except.. they didn't have any! None in stock at the warehouse.. grrr.. onto the new pharmacy a couple of doors up, a delightful young woman said "Yes, I have paper facial masks, so useful in this weather", she handed over her credit card and received a box of.. 100!
And armed with these, she slid underground onto the Piccadilly Line to St.Pancras and then onto the Northern Line to Old Street and followed the Green Line to Moorfields, Clinic # 3 for her 3.00pm appointment.
This is such an extraordinary place, the staff are truly amaaazing and beyond kindness itself. And on went one of the paper masks, she was NOT going to breath her horrid germs onto anyone.
First up, general eye health and pressure test.. hmmmm.. at 13 & 13 this was a little up from the reading in November. The nurse took her through the eye test with each eye separately. OH dear, not so good. Next stop Vision Field which involves watching four dots and any other dots that you may see and then concentrating on a central yellow dot and clicking when you see a bright or pale light anywhere else.
She was asked to sit and wait to see her Consultant. This Glaucoma Clinic is always a busy one but she was seen again within the hour. He went through her tests and then examined both her eyes in great detail, she asked him how her eyes were as she told him she now finds that she has to wear her glasses for any detailed work and her right eye gets 'tired'.
"It's that poor old optic nerve, I'm afraid and the reason you're now reaching for your glasses is you've started to develop cataracts since we last saw you, they're just beginning to form and this will cause you to notice a difference, plus you need a new prescription for your glasses, we picked this up when you did the eye test".
"CATARACTS" she squeaked in outrage! "I've already got very advanced open angled glaucoma and a dying optic nerve and now you're telling me I've got a pair of cataracts forming!" and the two of them rocked with rather manic laughter!
So, there you have our latest news! Oh, and that naughty plate washing box.. aka dishwasher.. flooded YumYum's floor last night!
But tomorrow, as Scarlet so wisely said, is another day and an antique, tall but skinny six-drawer chest of drawers is arriving between 11.00 am and midday, it will live in the bathroom and hold her underwear, her night clothes and her thinner sweaters, the thick ones live in a cupboard.
It's arrival will trigger the start of putting our home back together again. (Thank goodness). For everything that will live in the bathroom is, at present in another cupboard in our bedroom which normals holds 'other stuff' and it is this 'other stuff' which is lolling about causing chaos and mayhem in our sitting room. Are you with me? I know, 'tis difficult, but just imagine having to live here as well!
Well! Flap-my-daps, I have just been SO grown-up, I jumped off her head onto the bed, came back up to her and asked to go to bed.. how about that?
Cataracts, poor old bat, she'll be off to see lovely Margaret at Eye Opticians in Hackney for new glasses and propably Curry PC World for a new plate washing box (if it leaks again).. and so, you see, mes amis 'Pop goes the weasel!'
GeeGee Parrot.
January 4th, 2017.
There is a wonderful programme currently being shown on the magnificent Yellowstone Park, it is being shown over several nights and we are glued to it, plus I have seen a bird that made me go "Woooooo", yes, it was the Great Grey Owl. What an amazingly breathtaking bird.. the programme is on all animals in the park and the snow and the melting of it.
Beavers, Elk, Black Bears, Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Sage Grouse, Muskrats, Snowfall, Waterlevels, Climate change.. watching three baby Great Grey Owls take their first flights was nerve racking, to say the least!
And before this programme tonight was Rick Stein in Berlin, she likes his recipes. And you all know how she loves fish and there was a great recipe for marinating a middle cut of Salmon. The recipe is too long for her to tap tonight but here, mes amis, folks, Dear Readers, is the website to which you can go and find it.. don't say I don't give you anything!
Beetroot-Cured-Salmon with Cucumber & Apple Pickle.
This delicious recipe can be found on: www.thehappyfoodie.co.uk.
Now, did I tell you she was going to have her bi-monthly test at Moorfields Eye Hospital? Well, she did. But first off we went to the bathroom and she sploshed about in hot smelly water for a long time breathing in the essential oils, too numerous to name (I can't remember which she used to be truthful but Eucalyptus and Peppermint were certainly amongst the smellies.
Then she got dressed in layers and layers of clothing, remembered her glasses, both long long and short distance for the consultant, wrapped a fine scarf around her head and neck, then pulled one of Darling Pat's hats.
And went off to collect her facial mask that she had ordered at Boots.. except.. they didn't have any! None in stock at the warehouse.. grrr.. onto the new pharmacy a couple of doors up, a delightful young woman said "Yes, I have paper facial masks, so useful in this weather", she handed over her credit card and received a box of.. 100!
And armed with these, she slid underground onto the Piccadilly Line to St.Pancras and then onto the Northern Line to Old Street and followed the Green Line to Moorfields, Clinic # 3 for her 3.00pm appointment.
This is such an extraordinary place, the staff are truly amaaazing and beyond kindness itself. And on went one of the paper masks, she was NOT going to breath her horrid germs onto anyone.
First up, general eye health and pressure test.. hmmmm.. at 13 & 13 this was a little up from the reading in November. The nurse took her through the eye test with each eye separately. OH dear, not so good. Next stop Vision Field which involves watching four dots and any other dots that you may see and then concentrating on a central yellow dot and clicking when you see a bright or pale light anywhere else.
She was asked to sit and wait to see her Consultant. This Glaucoma Clinic is always a busy one but she was seen again within the hour. He went through her tests and then examined both her eyes in great detail, she asked him how her eyes were as she told him she now finds that she has to wear her glasses for any detailed work and her right eye gets 'tired'.
"It's that poor old optic nerve, I'm afraid and the reason you're now reaching for your glasses is you've started to develop cataracts since we last saw you, they're just beginning to form and this will cause you to notice a difference, plus you need a new prescription for your glasses, we picked this up when you did the eye test".
"CATARACTS" she squeaked in outrage! "I've already got very advanced open angled glaucoma and a dying optic nerve and now you're telling me I've got a pair of cataracts forming!" and the two of them rocked with rather manic laughter!
So, there you have our latest news! Oh, and that naughty plate washing box.. aka dishwasher.. flooded YumYum's floor last night!
But tomorrow, as Scarlet so wisely said, is another day and an antique, tall but skinny six-drawer chest of drawers is arriving between 11.00 am and midday, it will live in the bathroom and hold her underwear, her night clothes and her thinner sweaters, the thick ones live in a cupboard.
It's arrival will trigger the start of putting our home back together again. (Thank goodness). For everything that will live in the bathroom is, at present in another cupboard in our bedroom which normals holds 'other stuff' and it is this 'other stuff' which is lolling about causing chaos and mayhem in our sitting room. Are you with me? I know, 'tis difficult, but just imagine having to live here as well!
Well! Flap-my-daps, I have just been SO grown-up, I jumped off her head onto the bed, came back up to her and asked to go to bed.. how about that?
Cataracts, poor old bat, she'll be off to see lovely Margaret at Eye Opticians in Hackney for new glasses and propably Curry PC World for a new plate washing box (if it leaks again).. and so, you see, mes amis 'Pop goes the weasel!'
GeeGee Parrot.
January 4th, 2017.
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