The Easter
weekend is over; it’s been lovely to spend time with my Aunt in Wales. Gareth
and I got to enjoy our Christmas & Birthday present of the ‘Chefs Table
with Wine Flights’ at Ynishir Hall. We lost track of the number of courses we
were served, but we agreed they were all delicious with the exception of the
cheese course which while perfectly edible was just a little too ‘blue’ for our
liking.
The journey
up to Wales on the Bank Holiday Friday which should have taken us 4 ½ hours
ended up taking nearly 7 ½ with terrible traffic, hugely long detours round
accidents and unplanned stops to let the dogs out to get some fresh air,
stretch their legs and pee.
The journey
was tiring and I had some back pain but that’s more the result of 7+ hours
driving a Peugeot Estate Car than MS related. My no longer present MS symptoms
remain as ever no longer present, and the physio has worked wonders on my
shoulder problem so that I’m pretty much back to normal now.
Sunday was
a much more civilised journey back home and topped out at the expected 4 ½ hours
with just the one stop for pups and people constitutional’s. We got home to
what can only be described as ‘Armageddon-esque’ weather. Storm ‘Katie’ had
arrived and she was a mean bitch (if you’re thinking sounds like Katie Hopkins
and that’s uncharitable you’re not alone I thought much the same) - anyway Katie-bitch didn’t manage to bring
down the fences in the garden unlike her predecessors this year so she very
spitefully knocked down the wall to the bakery car park at the end of our road –
she knocked it down ‘into’ our road. Hence we were all trapped until the bricks
and wreckage was cleared, she brought a tree down which blocked access to the
local pub as well – panic stations we were trapped and now couldn’t get to the
pub for a pint on foot either AARRGGHHHHH - it was all sorted by mid-afternoon and old
Katie bless her cotton socks had buggered off to annoy someone else.
We have a
new Dog walker coming to meet the pups this evening. We hope that works out
well as without one we have to take it in turns to drive home and walk them in
the working day which isn’t ideal for Gareth and I. We’ve also found a great
chap who we’re hoping will do some ‘in home’ and ‘at park’ training with us as
a top up for he Pup’s especially bearing in mind Amber-Dog is now the
instigator of most barking and dashing at other people / dogs which winds Winston
up.
On Thursday
this week I’m back at Southampton Hospital for a Clinical Neuro Physiology Appointment
and what I think might be Electricity conductivity testing. More related to the
‘prolapsed disc’ in my neck and it’s potentially pressing on a nerve bundle
which is resulting in the sensation oddities in my left hand. I’m quite nervous
about what they will say to be honest, it isn’t causing me pain, it’s just
really annoying and annoying to me does not mean I want to undergo surgery of
any kind. Surely if they just dangled me upside down on an inversion table the
weight of my big head would stretch everything out in the opposite direction
and allow this disc to pop back in where it should be (or maybe the weight of
my big arse would pull my feet off EEEK)
7 weeks
remaining now until round two, I’ve still not got my ‘official letter’ so just
the lovely Margaret’s text confirming that so far. I’ve booked it with work
regardless so it’s in the plans. Just need to don my ‘Wonder Woman’ outfit and
save the world again in the interim with a rather interesting piece of network
transmission and data centre migration in the interim to keep things
interesting.
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