This blog is about life on board our narrowboat Sanity Again, cruising the inland waterways of the UK (mainly in the spring, summer and autumn) and living in a marina in the winter. It's the way I choose to write it; if you don't like it, there are many other boating blogs.
Friday 7 March 2014
Sunny recovery day
First off, a heartfelt thank you to one and all for your good wishes, both expressed as comments here and in personal emails. They are really appreciated and a great support. I seem to be tolerating the new meds, so that’s one thing to be grateful for, and of course having a routine op is nothing like the grief that some of my fellow bloggers have been through in the past year.
Today has been a good day, though it got off to a late start as we overslept and didn’t really get going until nine. It’s the first time we’ve missed almost all of the Today programme for a long time. Desert Island Discs was entertaining as so often, though we’d never heard of the castaway Mairi Hedderwick, our kids being too old to have read the Katie Morag books.
When we did get out, it was just in time to join Stephen and Jayne for hot choc in the Willow Tree, after which leisurely break we went back to the boat and pottered for an hour until lunch.
We’ve been much more active since then, walking down to the surgery to hand in the copy of my new prescription and to ask for a repeat straightaway; we’ll be away for around four weeks starting next Friday, so I’ll need a refill before we get back here.
Then it was the solid trek out to Betty’s Farm , where I got a serious piece of silverside beef to roast tomorrow, along with a load of other bits and bobs including two jars of a new brand of home made curry sauce. We’ll try a jar of that with chicken tonight, eating it with the chapattis that were also available.
By the time we got back to the boat we were well weary and quietly collapsed with a cup of tea until it was time to do this blog.
Tomorrow, Elanor is running us over to the Findern Garden Centre. A census of my winter shirts showed that several were only fit for boating and one was a write off. I bought them several years before we moved on board Sanity ten years ago, so they’ve done very well. They are Edinburgh Woollen Mill solid cotton jobs and as Findern has an EWM outlet we’re hoping they’ll be having a sale…
/wahaha
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