It thawed enough and didn't freeze again, which made all the difference. I was able to get the car out onto the road. Wink and Pam didn't come, which I'm glad about, it could have really been a disaster for their health. I was so cold that I didn't really defrost until I spent half an hour in a very hot bath that evening.
Today, I took eCat for her annual vaccination and checkup, which went well. She's lost an appreciable amount of weight, to my surprise - I do weigh her food so that Wink and I don't just give her everything she wants. Then Wink had a dentist appointment in Norwich and I had a contact lens check - luckily, the times gelled.
I'm most grateful for my eyesight. I always recognise that it could all go awry, but it hasn't yet. My eyes are still fine - more than fine, for my age. Last year, I had to have new glasses because the sight in my left eye has improved. This year, a new contact lens prescription because my right eye is better. From -2 to -1.75 in each case, so not much and it's just tweaking. I'm incredibly grateful, though.
I let eCat out 15 minutes ago, because she asked - obviously, she has a perfectly good cat flap - and it was just starting to drizzle. I just went to call her in and there's no sign of her, so I suspect she's either whinged at Wink's back door or else used the aforementioned cat flap. The forecast isn't good, she's not outside in this wind and rain.
And she's just come to say hello, sensible girl.
4 comments:
Glad to learn that your eyesight is well, it is one of my own personal "hells" to loose that.
All Germany seems to drown in snow and ice, while lucky Franconia sees nothing of that. I was driving around in the ddm this morning through the woods, no ice at all. The most dangerous place was the parking lot of a local supermarket, where customers were sliding around avoiding to fall.
I don’t know why your blog stopped appearing on Blogger where I’m told when a new blog appears, however I have today gone back to November to catch up on your doings.
We had a death in December of my 92 year old cousin, Jeff, rather than a funeral service there was a thanksgiving service in his large community church, Ian reckoned there could have been up to 300 attending.
Ian & I were driven around the western arc of the M25 by a late cousin’s son, who with his family live about 5 miles from us. He will be 60 next month, doesn’t seem it so jolly, lively and young in outlook. For He was bemoaning the looming prospect of retirement and what he would do. One piece of advice Ian offered him was to have different interests and activities from his wife so there is always something interesting to talk about with each other.
We do this, Ian’s interests seem to be things I couldn’t do, like singing in a community choir; playing in a chess club, yoga; planting & maintaining the flower beds and litter picking around our church plus being on the Estates committee with all the hassle of having to obtain a faculty to put even a notice board on a wall, it ended up with free standing boards which take up space in a small church building.
I digress, I’m going to try to ensure your blog pops up so I can keep in touch.
Madeleine 🦢
It's lovely to hear from you, Madeleine. I've been wondering how you and Ian are. I've been having such a problem all last year with my blog - not this Blogger version, but the paid one. They've taken a lot of money from me and still don't let me sign in. I've got to steel myself to sort it out again, but I think it's done and it isn't and I've just lost heart.
I completely agree about having different interests. There can be overlap, of course, but it shows that you each have your own way of life and one person's wishes don't dominate, however much you enjoy each other's company. And, to be blunt, if you do everything together and one dies, you have nothing of your own. It isn't the same without the other one.
It's not normally as bad here as other parts of the country, which is lucky.
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