Wednesday and I appear to have slept reasonably well last night. I’m in no rush to get up so take my vitals (all good), check my messages and social media and watch a couple of YouTube videos. My partner brings me my morning hot water before I get up for breakfast and my morning meds. I am feeling shaky and I can already feel Uluru (bladder stone) making its presence felt. Having just settled down on the recliner the builder badgers arrive to fit the new side gate and the hand rails to the patio steps. They seem to be as chipper as ever so I set them off to work with the now ritual cups of coffee. Feeling slightly off my game I return to the sofa and an early start on drafting the blog. There are some decisions to be made about our front gates with regard to split, 50/50 or 66/33, as my partner points out it makes a difference when getting the cars in or out of the drive. Potential to make a school person error here.
The “tree man” Eddie is popping in later today to discuss stump grinding, hedge trimming and tree maintenance so I need to be on my game later today. I have still not worked up the courage to send the book links to Radio 2 even though I now have a WhatsApp group with them, although a friend asks what have I got to loose I still feel uneasy about doing it just in case someone actually responded. I shall think it over.
The builder badgers get to work and after a while they are completed. The new hand rail for the patio is in place and the new side way gate is in position. The project is almost done. I talk to the badgers and tell them which gates I want for the front drive so that they can order them for me and fit them in due course when they are delivered from the makers. For now its time to clear up the garden and get reorganised.
Having waved farewell to the build badgers I return to the sofa and spend time doing some economic home admin and planning for the future. My sums are just completed when the tree man arrives to look at the work that the garden requires. He is getting to be a regular visitor and was the person who recommended the badgers to us. We stroll the garden and identify the work required. Apparently there is nothing that poses a problem and it can all be done in one day. He departs saying he will send me a price over the next couple of days. So all that leaves me now is to find some muscle for a day to clear the garden of the things destined for the waiting Hippo Bag.
The evening starts when my partner returns home from visiting her mother. We eat and then drift into the evening. I am not feeling that well so I am content just to get through the evening to the point I can take my meds and get to bed. I am working my way towards Fridays pre operation assessment one step, one day at a time.
