Hello Everybody,

When I go to go see the Nurse tomorrow, OH how I will be longing to see that sign!

Hey? I'm a Woman, normally I can 'do' pain! Ive given Birth for goodess sake!!! Yeah yeah I know, 'yadder yadder yadder'  <ahem>

But I mean? an Ingrown toenail? and in INFECTED one at that!  <nods>

Ive been in agonies with this bugger, anti-biotics and everything-the LOT! And now my return to work has now been delayed because of it, (oh I'm dead sorry about that right enough LOL ) but I managed to get an emergency appointment at the Podiatry Clinic.  'PODIATRY' i'd never heard that word in my life!!! Whatever happened to a good old fashioned 'Chiropodist' eh? 

OMG, i must have gone beyond the help of a safe hands Chiropodist. I'm in Podiatry territory now! 

So I go tomorrow, I am DREADING this, please wish me luck folks...

Maybe the nurse will be 'out' hey? But i guess that will solve nowt! 

So untill tomorrow, or maybe the next day (or so) I wish you all well, don't ignore your feet (my toe became infected while i was on holiday and i failed to get it inspected, BIG MISTAKE)

I will be sure to come around to give you all the gory details, their might even be a photagraph in it-There WILL be if my hubby has anything to do with it!!! 

I can't even go back to bed for a wee lie down, as my bedroom ceiling has fallen down (and i'm not kidding)

Yes folks that's what it's gonna be like this week in the Sloan Mansion...fun fun fun all the way!

 

oh well,  I will leave you with a little bit of Hospital Humour

 and I bid yous one and all a very pleasant, and pain free day!

mags x

 

 

Hello Everybody,

 

Call me 'Sentimental' and you might just be right!

The music that is playing on my space at the moment, reminds me of my late grandmother, and I want to speak more about her in a moment.

 

In very recent days I seem to be developing quite a penchant, for all things scottish (i got no idea why) I would actually rather be a million miles away from the U.K. if truth be told, it's all going a bit 'wrong' in this country, and If We had the money, I think me and my family would bale out.   But I still love Scotland.

When Me and Drew were in Devon this summer, I was in our Hotel Room one early evening, and I heard a sound outside which was coming from the Bandstand, a short disctance away from our hotel, it was the unmistakable sound of BAGPIPES!!! 

In my current state of emotional sentimentality, I felt quite overcome, to be hearing them so far away from home, (ok, about 600 miles maybe -)

But it's a memory of Devon that I will always treasure.

Do any of yous know the Scottish Sit-Com   Rab C Nesbitt?  Well, Rab's wife is called Mary, 'Mary Doll' to her Husband.

and Mary has got a cousin called Hugh, or to give his name the scottish slant 'Shug'

Shug lives in Sidcup  *I havent got a frigging clue where Sidcup is.... *Answers on a postcard please!

and he works in finance -or similar. To all intents and appearances Shug is completely Anglofied, he is a man who works in the City and never a vowel is out of place.  That's ok, but shug is terrible lonesome for his Beloved Scotland, or 'Caledonia'

and every so often it overwhelms him, and the 'scottishness' breaks out in him, and he has to flee back to his 'braw caledonia', where a (usually) warm glesca welcome awaits him.

I searched YouTube for 2 and a half DAYS to find a particular episode of Rab C that featured Shug, and I found it this morning -deep joy.

From my memory I could recall, Shug getting the 'scottishness' but I couldn't remember what had triggered it on this occasion.

And would you believe it????  He was at home in his Lounge on the telephone, on a buisness call, and suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a pipe band marching, on his televison screen, and that was IT!!!! he had to escape once more to his beloved Scotia..

And so to my Grandmother....

 

 A while ago now, I penned a poem for my late grandmother, it can be found in the 'My Poetry' category. A very unexpected consequence of this, has been that I feel extrodinarly close to her. It's as if she is with me, I can actually feel her presence.  I'm amazed by this, and it has brought me a lot of comfort, and ive been pining for the years in my childood that I was very fortunate to share with her, and Andy's music is very evocative of that era.

So this explains away (i hope) the music that I am playing on my space at the moment

The root cause of my sentimentality I'm not so sure about, but I will leave you with the episode in question of Rab C Nesbitt. It's a half hour slot, split into 3 sections

Some of you (?) may not be interested in a whole half hours worth, but the scene invloving Shug comes at the very beginning, and I highly commend the closing scene at the end of the 3rd Section.

And if any of you require subtitles, then come see about me!!!  

mags x