Good evening Bloggets. As I said in my last blog, talking
about the flu jab, I feel better today, not totally but better. I still can’t
open my eyes they are stinging. Good job I am not going out. I have no energy
and for those looking at me, closing my eyes isn’t a good look. Makes no difference
to me of course as can’t see whether they are open or closed, but for vanity
reasons, smile.
My Husband was on his own last night. I went to bed at half
eight in the evening. I was so tired. So ill. And, my poor dog is bored stiff.
I have some making up to do with her. Mind you, she has been playing with her
toys and in our yard, she was running back and forward with a toy I was
throwing for her. That is how I know I am feeling better no way I could have
done that yesterday.
Hub had to put up with frozen food yesterday. Today I have
cooked just mash potato mashed turnip and sausages. My Brother in law
said the food he misses most after moving to Australia, is sausages as their
sausages are not like ours.
My Son text me yesterday,
last thing I heard from him until he let me know he was there safely, was he
said he was on the plane about to take off.
Fourteen hours later… He let me know he had arrived.
It’s a long way, ten hours in the air, not fourteen? Thank God,
he was OK and he said his hotel is spectacular. Now the two long weeks begin.
How are you all doing? I hope I find you well, healthy and
fit ready to go. Go where? Let me know. For those not so fit and well and have
nowhere to go, you are not alone. Smile. I’m right here with you!
I heard that Shamrock, my Sons girlfriend, her sister is pregnant.
Well I know she is serious with her boyfriend as they had, not sure if they still
have, huge plans to get married next year. Now I say not sure their plans will
still go ahead, as she planned an enormously expensive wedding. Now she is
going to have a baby? Crazy. She lives in rented accommodation and cannot
afford the basic of things but plans a wedding that will cost a fortune and to
have a baby as well? It’s a car crash I hope my Son won’t find himself in.
I know Shamrocks parents will adore the baby and be good
Grandparents, and, she, Shams Sister, will be a good Mum and her Fiancé is a really nice guy, according to my boy, I just
wish people who were or, are going to have children would think in a different
way, marry, get a good home then have children. For the children’s sake as well
as their sake. This young girl doesn’t go on holidays or even out much in the
UK. They don’t have a car or their own house. Their land lord could end their lease
any day. I know some people don’t have a choice in life, but they did. I’m sure
that Sham will be excited to be an Aunt, and will love the baby, I just hope it
doesn’t make her too broody. She’s only eighteen and BW twenty. At least her
sister and brother in law to be are in their early to mid-twenties.
Now an odd thing about our groceries. We are fortunate to
get them delivered. Gosh, it would be so difficult to shop if we couldn’t do
that. At our local Tesco, the staff are far from welcoming or friendly. I went
there for a loaf of bread once and never ever again. Not after being told
before I go again, please can I phone, just to warn staff, so there will be
someone to show me around? Em, no, so I never and won’t go back there. How to
make someone feel unwelcome and a nuisance, having said that, someone I know
from Newcastle, says he shops there all the time for his weekly shopping and
the staff there are amazing with him. He is also blind, mind you, he is also a
born liar. The kind of person that every word that comes from his mouth is a
complete lie. So, does he go to Tesco? If he does, are the staff really nice? Haha.
Oh, one story he once told me. He went shopping, got a taxi
home. He got half of his shopping from the taxi then the taxi drove off leaving
him to run down the street after the cab. When it wouldn’t stop, he went to
call the company. But just to make the story more dramatic, he couldn’t
remember the name of the company. Hahahaha. It was just a taxi he put his hand
out for on the street.
Now, firstly, if the food was in the boot/trunk of the car,
the driver would have to open it for him and if all wasn’t out, the driver
would see that. If the food was in the car with the person I am talking about,
the driver would see the left food.
Secondly, if you are totally blind, how can you run down a
street chasing after a car?
Thirdly, how if totally blind like he is, I know that is
true, how can you thumb a taxi? Put your hand out for a cab? You can’t. you
would be putting your hand out to everyone, every car that passed you. How would
you know what is a normal car and what is a taxi as they come in all shapes,
sizes and engine sounds now?
One of many of his lies. Once someone tells me a lie, I can’t
ever trust that person again. I can’t even bear their existence.
Anyway, back to my groceries tonight. I wanted my shopping
delivered between 9 this morning and 9 tonight. But between 9 a.m., and 7pm, it
was really expensive to get it delivered and they said on line, between 7pm and
10, it was fully booked so between ten and eleven were my only options. That was
going to be a delivery charge of 99p. here is the funny thing, my delivery guy
called me, something I don’t like, how every driver has my phone number. Not
sure why I don’t like it, just don’t. Anyway, he called me at half five tonight
asking if he could come early. He said he has a spare spot between half seven
and eight. Well why was I not told that online? And moreover, if I had picked
that time, it would have been a £4/6-pound delivery charge.
I get so annoyed that the delivery charges go up at
Christmas, not just Christmas eve or just after Christmas, but the full month
of December. Why? It could be because we order more so more work for the
drivers, well, the shops should pay the drivers more as we are spending more at
the shops, so, are we not doing our bit?
I still think we are very lucky to be able to get our
groceries delivered and if not for my software that makes my lap top talk, mind
you I do most of my groceries on my iPhone now, and that automatically talks
and to shop on the iPhone is so much easier for groceries for whatever reason. It’s
messier on my lap top, but twenty years ago, in fact less, we wouldn’t have
been able to do this at all. Everything really without Jaws, I wouldn’t be able
to write my blogs or talk with friends online from around the world.
Apple speech is amazing. I wish Microsoft was as good as
Apple. Then we wouldn’t have to spend so much money on our software Jaws. In my
opinion, Jaws by far is the best software for the computers on the market, but
it’s so expensive. About £700 US $919 Australian $1200 and, in Canadian Dollar,
1170
And that is on top of buying a lap top or computer.
But for me personally, Jaws is a life saver. I have tried
everything else and nothing compares.
Going back to my shopping. I’m really really going to have
to get our electrics sorted out. I said this last winter, we don’t have lights
that work in the hall. So, when we answer the door to the shopping man, he won’t
be able to see a blooming thing. Hahahhahaha. If you can’t beat them, join them
love!
OK, going to wait for my Sons text I hope he and Sham have had
a lovely day. 13 sleeps to go, but who’s counting?
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