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If  (and I do) have to spend some time curled up on the settee....then new cushion covers were called for! We have fabulous charity shops round abouts, so it didn't break the bank and they make me smile every day! One day I might learn how to take a photo with a tablet..........,! Until then,  At Last there might be an explanation for ten years of shocking balance. But by heck the last few   months have been grueling: " benign does not mean fine" Indeed so!  There is a limited  amount of space inside my skull! So...... it is  a non cancerous growth .....on my vestibular nerve.  However, having had one scan , there has to be a roughly six month wait for a second scan, before we all sit down and decide Next Steps. I had rather been hoping for a zappy radiosurgery type treatment, only it seems this flipping intruder is Already a bit too big. Size is not all tho' and if symptoms can be brought under control I would take a WatchAndWaitnObserve suggestion. A...

Tarrah! May I present a jumble of rain splattered herbs? Cornflower, thyme and chives to be precise. Not exactly what I expected the veg and herb  garden outside our kitchen to be looking like in the first week of July! But life happened. In short, a benign growth on my vestibular nerve started to make itself known. Hello vestibular schwannoma! You are not exactly welcome here but at least you are benign and at least you explain why my head felt Kinda Crowded of late! Lessons learned since February. Loosing hearing in one ear is a medical emergency, Seriously. Rare conditions do not equal "so you haven't got it". Push a few doors open? Try " be ruthlessly persistent" Gp's seriously are not trained to diagnose rare conditions, so cut them some slack But insist on swift and acurate referrals. Use a search engine of choice if our medical symptoms don't stack up with first possible diagnosis. In other news The tadpoles grew into frogs! The garden  is not a c...

In the midst of very vexing medical nonsense am seriously  grateful to Tesco for selling these stunning duvet sets,  they make me smile on a regular basis. Emerging from last year's mayhem, I had high hopes for the garden only .., well health matters have taken up Feb- the present time. And look like intruding into summer as well. I am not at all impressed. However I am very impressed by the ability of all manner of stuff to flourish if it is JustDumped in the garden soil! And flower seeds too! Goodness knows what the garden will look like this year, but there is something of the whimsical-fairy-look about it already. Some may mutter darkly of Overgrown and such like, but there is rhubarb chard tucked in with celendines and marigolds and fordhook giant chard taking it's chances with the lunaria. It's lovely! Frogs are about the place, something keeps flying into the glass of our bedroom window at night and six sheep have taken up residence in the field behind us.  The bir...

 So far....     so much the same? Well yes. Except now I have a pacemaker!                  Upon investigating the hearing loss in one ear, a low heart rate was discovered. My further request for an ECG was met and mercifully an overnight bag Had been brought with us!  "Hello hospital ward" and there started a wait for vacancy to place the pacemaker.  I was out again six days after going in. The initial two weeks are up, dressing off, I can do a Bit more and life should be improving in leaps and bounds. Only something else utterly unrelated has reared it's ugly head and i'm back to the docs Again! So no, no photos of our lovely garden as the last time out there,  I ended up in the daffodils....... In other news Family have been great. Local one pitched up to help prepare for visiting ones. And they combined helping with holiday and left us Much Sorted Out! I ve completed Some seed germination, but decided to...

 The past month has been slightly ridiculous, as usual living ground to  almost a halt and normal activity decreased stupidly.  (As you can tell, I m not Everso impressed) Simply cannot go into Yet Another growing season where seeds get landed unceremoniously in the soil and plants are left to flounder at will. So pacing myself........ Was able to complete some grandparent duties this month & all I can say is thank goodness for benches and low walls to perch on! Back home again it has been a case of short gardening spells and then spending time in the little snug with blankets, cushions and soft chairs. Usually I don't mind curling up here and falling asleep at the end of a long day, but before lunch?! So, what's gone on? Well I would quite like to know so have no doubt made myself a little unpopular at the health centre But Have nabbed an ECG and some other stuff later on this week. Time will tell. In other news: Leeks and radishes are germinating. Mazuma salad leave...

  Sssshhhhh! Regular reading matter which clearly puts me in the Older age bracket but.....I don't care! Lovely gentle reading matter with a page of quizzes to keep my brain ticking over as well. Hurrah for simple pleasures. The new year has begun, all parental ashes have been placed where they should be, everyone is still talking to each other and thoughts turn to gardening once more. Hibernation is almost at an end and most certainly the call from our garden is loud and persistent, so beds have been roughly cleared of weeds and covered with well rotted goat manure / spent compost / home made compost and hopefully '22 will see flowers and veg In Abundance! We only lost one pane of greenhouse glass and a corner of garden fencing in the storms,  but the countryside around looks as though a giant bulldozer has run amok. Trees everywhere. So Very sad. HibernationTime coincided with family here for Christmas, well two extra households only but that was enough!  "You look shel...

  November is always a fairly iron-grey month for me, quite without our last parent dying. But showing up here (a few days late for November tbh!) is a discipline that I m mindful to continue. If only because looking back on matters might make a bit of sense later. Maybe. For reasons too complicated to go into here, our parent died in North East Scotland, their mortal remains were cremated in East Anglia and the ashes will be interred in Cumbria, alongside their spouse and overlooking the Lune Valley.  While in East Anglia, we took the opportunity of catching up with key people, exploring remembered and half remembered places and discovering new delights along the roads we travelled along. But have returned to a home strewn with the debris of a parental move/ death / funeral.....and .....an upcoming visit of offspring and two minor whirlwinds! I foresee interesting times, the more so as our snug is still without part of its ceiling + there is clutter of a DIY variety rapidly m...