TxRad
Dirty Old Man
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I never fully stopped, but I never seem to finish anything anymore either.
Hey, Thee, long time no see. How did Florida treat you over the winter?
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I never fully stopped, but I never seem to finish anything anymore either.
The temperature dropped into the 40s a few times. We actually got 3 Florida winters. One week in 3 out of 4 months.
That beats the heck out of shoveling snow in NJ.
I'm just hoping hurricane season doesn't get worse than shoveling snow in New Jersey. But I missed one right before I moved down here and got lucky this last year. So we'll see...
Today is our wedding anniversary but not a significant number: 47 years.
We will celebrate with a quiet meal for two in a local restaurant.
47 years ago we had our reception in a local pub's restaurant. In the evening we were in a grotty holiday flat and couldn't get the electric cooker to work without blowing the fuzes so we had take-away fish and chips.
A meal in a restaurant is much more civilised.
Why a grotty holiday flat?
Our house purchase was stalled for six weeks. We needed somewhere to live for those six weeks and the holiday flat was the only local place that was available. Both of us had to be back at work on Monday morning. Six weeks later we could take a week's holiday to organise our new house.
We were grateful to the flat's owners. They too were moving in three months time and had taken the flat off the brochures for that year because the new owners would use it for their extended family. If they had been intending to rent it out they would have replaced the cooker and fridge. We survived by using two Primus stoves and take-aways, with full cooked meals at our workplaces.
But it was our first married home. Despite its limitations we still remember it fondly.
Happy 47th
In more recent years, it seems the gift/association list has been updated (I only know this cause I'm nosy and looked it up) -- it's the year of books and/or memorializing your love story.
Any chance you'd add 500 words But perhaps it's too precious to share with the masses.
Thanks for sharing with here--a lovely lovely memory!!
Thank you. Year of books? That gives me an idea.
Shortly after we had moved into our new-to-us house we decided to take a day's break from sorting, decorating etc. We went to Hastings for the day. As we were walking through the old town we noticed a book for sale in a secondhand bookdealer's window. It was a fine leather-bound 19th century edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote in English with a 1,000 illustrations by Gustave Doré. It was priced at ten pounds, far more than we could afford or justify at that time.
But when we walked back down the road we stopped again and stared at the book. We talked about it and the counted just how much money we had on us - just a few pence more than ten pounds - and our bank accounts were empty until payday.
We bought the book and lived on tins and packets from the kitchen cupboards until after payday.
We still have it and love it, but after 47 years of reading and rereading one of the boards has become detached and needs a professional repair.
So, for the year of the book, I'll get it repaired. It will cost about 200 pounds and a replacement would cost about the same - but a replacement wouldn't be OUR book, our first married purchase together.
Thank you. Year of books? That gives me an idea.
Shortly after we had moved into our new-to-us house we decided to take a day's break from sorting, decorating etc. We went to Hastings for the day. As we were walking through the old town we noticed a book for sale in a secondhand bookdealer's window. It was a fine leather-bound 19th century edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote in English with a 1,000 illustrations by Gustave Doré. It was priced at ten pounds, far more than we could afford or justify at that time.
But when we walked back down the road we stopped again and stared at the book. We talked about it and the counted just how much money we had on us - just a few pence more than ten pounds - and our bank accounts were empty until payday.
We bought the book and lived on tins and packets from the kitchen cupboards until after payday.
We still have it and love it, but after 47 years of reading and rereading one of the boards has become detached and needs a professional repair.
So, for the year of the book, I'll get it repaired. It will cost about 200 pounds and a replacement would cost about the same - but a replacement wouldn't be OUR book, our first married purchase together.
One of the many large illustrations from Don Quixote, shown about half size:
Do you know who the illustrator is for this edition? Amazing these are so well preserved!
I saw a specialist neurologist on 1 March who didn't find anything wrong in his specialism but he ordered extensive blood tests for apparently everything except pregnancy. The results of those blood tests haven't arrived yet, possibly because some have to be done in a specialist laboratory. He told me he would refer me to an ENT specialist but I had heard nothing.
I went to my local doctor this morning. I should have had a copy of the neurologist's report by post - I haven't had it. She read it to me. Apparently my muscles and reflexes are 'normal' or even 'good' for someone of my age so the neurologist can't find anything causing me to fall over, walk unsteadily and with slurred speech. I would fail a US field sobriety test but otherwise I'm OK.
The local doctor is contacting my health insurers to arrange a faster referral to ENT. Apparently the NHS waiting list for ENT is months long once you have the letter, but I haven't had the letter so I'm not 'waiting' yet...
I should be seen by a private ENT consultant within weeks but I'm not convinced it is an ENT problem. If they decide I'm normal? Then I get referred to yet another specialism.
Meanwhile? I wobble around on a stick and only my wife can understand my speech. That is irritating both of us.
Even my coffee tastes wrong. Grrr!
I saw a specialist neurologist on 1 March who didn't find anything wrong in his specialism but he ordered extensive blood tests for apparently everything except pregnancy. The results of those blood tests haven't arrived yet, possibly because some have to be done in a specialist laboratory. He told me he would refer me to an ENT specialist but I had heard nothing.
I went to my local doctor this morning. I should have had a copy of the neurologist's report by post - I haven't had it. She read it to me. Apparently my muscles and reflexes are 'normal' or even 'good' for someone of my age so the neurologist can't find anything causing me to fall over, walk unsteadily and with slurred speech. I would fail a US field sobriety test but otherwise I'm OK.
The local doctor is contacting my health insurers to arrange a faster referral to ENT. Apparently the NHS waiting list for ENT is months long once you have the letter, but I haven't had the letter so I'm not 'waiting' yet...
I should be seen by a private ENT consultant within weeks but I'm not convinced it is an ENT problem. If they decide I'm normal? Then I get referred to yet another specialism.
Meanwhile? I wobble around on a stick and only my wife can understand my speech. That is irritating both of us.
Even my coffee tastes wrong. Grrr!
Fool, you have produced page 2 material in your life.
You've been missed.