Had terrible night last night - throat agony, kept me awake nearly all night, temperature up again. Been in bed most of today. No New Year party for me - again.
So goodbye 2013 you've had some good bits and some bad bits but through it all God has been with me, at work in my life. Praise Him!
Tuesday 31 December 2013
Monday 30 December 2013
Sad news
At the coffee morning I have a favourite old lady, a wonderful character with the answer "Well parts of me are ok" when asked how she is. I've just seen in the local paper that she has died. She was 90 and died peacefully so that's a lot to be thankful for but I'm going to miss her. Can't quite believe I'll never chat to her again.
Sore throat
Woke up yesterday with a sore throat and as day went on I developed a temperature. My throat is sooo painful right now. J a bit under the weather but managing to do some Art coursework. Yesterday P squashed his thumb with a ladder - swollen and nail turned black. Ouch.
Another storm in the night but doesn't seem to have been any damage.
Terrible news about Michael Schumacher's accident. Praying he'll recover.
Another storm in the night but doesn't seem to have been any damage.
Terrible news about Michael Schumacher's accident. Praying he'll recover.
Saturday 28 December 2013
A Quiet One
Feel so sorry for all those people who've had floods/power cuts over Christmas. Must have been awful and still is for some people. We've had several storms here and some of the rivers have burst their banks but no houses have been flooded, thankfully. They say there will be more rain next week.
We have had a quiet Christmas. We went to 'old church' on Christmas morning then we had two ladies for lunch - Mavis and Joanne, who would have been on their own otherwise. P, with J's help, cooked some wonderful food. The goose was delicious, P cooked it with pears and onions. J wouldn't eat it but had turkey instead.
It was a bit tiring and bordering on stressful at times but all in all went ok.
Disappointingly the camera J got for Christmas didn't work but we went in on Boxing Day and the lady in Boots was happy to change it. I got a camera as well - a nice little slim one to fit easily into my pocket or handbag.
Yesterday and today I've just dossed around really, well apart from reading.
We have had a quiet Christmas. We went to 'old church' on Christmas morning then we had two ladies for lunch - Mavis and Joanne, who would have been on their own otherwise. P, with J's help, cooked some wonderful food. The goose was delicious, P cooked it with pears and onions. J wouldn't eat it but had turkey instead.
It was a bit tiring and bordering on stressful at times but all in all went ok.
Disappointingly the camera J got for Christmas didn't work but we went in on Boxing Day and the lady in Boots was happy to change it. I got a camera as well - a nice little slim one to fit easily into my pocket or handbag.
Yesterday and today I've just dossed around really, well apart from reading.
Sunday 15 December 2013
Good few days
Mocks seem to be going well.
Have had good few days. Have joined new housegroup at church - enjoying it and making new friends. Last night was Christmas party with family housegroup - had good time. P made salad and sponge cake which was very nice. Just sat around eating and talking which was fine. Church very good this morning then picked up J and had lunch at pub with a few of the others. Roast turkey again - yum.
Have to go - Strictly results about to come on.
Have had good few days. Have joined new housegroup at church - enjoying it and making new friends. Last night was Christmas party with family housegroup - had good time. P made salad and sponge cake which was very nice. Just sat around eating and talking which was fine. Church very good this morning then picked up J and had lunch at pub with a few of the others. Roast turkey again - yum.
Have to go - Strictly results about to come on.
Thursday 12 December 2013
Study leave
J is doing mock GCSEs at the moment, says so far they've 'gone ok' but then he always says that and usually they have but just occasionally ... I on the other hand always used to say I'd done terribly. This rebounded on me the first time I did my Chemistry A-level. I had managed to spend 2 years of Chemistry lessons not getting to grips with the subject at all. In fact I could pretty much be said to have learnt nothing except that if you accidentally added sodium carbonate instead of sodium hydroxide to the test tube during a certain test it would violently react and the tube contents would shoot into the bottle turning the contents bright green. Also if, while heating a test tube it boiled over and the contents shot across the room and hit the teacher in his beard, he too would violently react.Also that the super-calm, slightly creepy, my-one-ambition-in-life-is-to-be-head-boy (who actually became a lot nicer once he realised he never would be head boy) was not at all super calm when he set the bench on fire. Anyway on Paper 1 of my A-level exam there were 20 questions. I answered 3. All complete guesses. 'I've failed Chemistry,' I said to my Dad. 'You always say that, you've done fine,' he replied.
So yes I failed abysmally, retook it and spent most of the next year still not understanding it. Then one evening just a few weeks before the exam I was poring over a text book and suddenly it clicked. Just like that I understood Chemistry and to everyone's astonishment got a really good grade.
Of course J is a natural super whiz at Chemistry. Doesn't get it from me. At parents' evening though, when the teacher addresses all his comments to P and ignores me I get this urge to say 'I have got an A-level you know, I do know what an alkane is, or even an alkene or alkyne and unlike you I was alive back there in those days when they were just beginning to talk about spd orbitals and electron clouds'. But I don't. I just sit there in my wheelchair trying to look intelligent.
Anyway it's a funny sort of fortnight, taking J into school at strange times of day. On Tuesday we took pity on him doing 2 English exams & went and took him for lunch in a cafe between Eng Lang and Eng Lit. Today he's been home all day 'revising' although for a break we did go and do a bit of Christmas shopping. He's got a 'real' German GCSE exam tomorrow, really hope he does know it as well as he says. Of course he'll say it 'went ok'.
So yes I failed abysmally, retook it and spent most of the next year still not understanding it. Then one evening just a few weeks before the exam I was poring over a text book and suddenly it clicked. Just like that I understood Chemistry and to everyone's astonishment got a really good grade.
Of course J is a natural super whiz at Chemistry. Doesn't get it from me. At parents' evening though, when the teacher addresses all his comments to P and ignores me I get this urge to say 'I have got an A-level you know, I do know what an alkane is, or even an alkene or alkyne and unlike you I was alive back there in those days when they were just beginning to talk about spd orbitals and electron clouds'. But I don't. I just sit there in my wheelchair trying to look intelligent.
Anyway it's a funny sort of fortnight, taking J into school at strange times of day. On Tuesday we took pity on him doing 2 English exams & went and took him for lunch in a cafe between Eng Lang and Eng Lit. Today he's been home all day 'revising' although for a break we did go and do a bit of Christmas shopping. He's got a 'real' German GCSE exam tomorrow, really hope he does know it as well as he says. Of course he'll say it 'went ok'.
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Good news part 2
Bit of good news 2):
After 2 years of trying to lose weight so I can get back into my dark blue embroidered jeans I'VE DONE IT!!! Only thing is they look a bit old-fashioned now. Never mind I'm going to wear them. Can also get into Next green skinny jeans I bought to cheer me up after hospital appointment in April when had steroid injection in my finger (Youch!!!) then found they were too tight and into jeggings bought last year and into denim skirt got on ebay a couple of years ago. Life is sweet.
Must make sure I'm disciplined over Christmas & don't put weight back on again. Today went out for lunch with coffee morning crowd. Had prawn cocktail in a tortilla cup, turkey & trimmings then sorbet (Becky next to me had same starter, hunter's chicken with chips, cheesecake with cream and ice-cream then a mince-pie, not sure her weight-loss program going quite to plan). Woman opposite me had a bag of crisps just before her lunch, not sure why. Had a nice time. P and new associate minister from old church seem to be hitting it off which is good.
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