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We had plans for this week with our Canadian visitor. Plans involving driving and transport. Plans that, predated my eye afliction . Plans that are ruled out for that and assorted other reasons, until a good friend steps in offering to do the Edinburgh run , to collect the one party with some mobility issues.Continue reading “It’s a Dogs LIfe 73”

Brother Tam (ok then, brother Tim – it’s a long story) is visiting from Canada. He gone to his “actual” familly for a couple of days then back here for a week or so, but we had his arrival day to catch up. Two “grumpy old men” drinking tea and coffee (changed days indeed) ,Continue reading “It’s a (old) Dog’s Life 72”

I thought I’d wait till after this weeks hospital check up to find out what bad news I had to share… turns out , “it depends, wait and see, time will tell”. In principle no news is of course good news, however no news is also a further enforced spell off work (work, I rememberContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 71”

So I thought that 6 months of being effectively blind on one side because of cataracts, followed by another few months of being effectively blind on the same side due to having no lens, would be ample preperation for being blind on tht side after retinal (re)attachment surgery. Seems I was wrong. My previous inabilityContinue reading “It’s a Dogs Life 70”

I didn’t want to leave everyone in suspense for a week; spoiler – I live. OP2 went ahead with the help of beta blockers and temazapan. Now all I can do is wait to see what level of recovery I enjoy. Meantime the (intentional) gas bubble in my eye allows me to determine how flatContinue reading “It’s a One Eyed Dogs Life – update”

So the operation yesterday didn’t go ahead. Alas my blood pressure was too high, not just too high but “hello Ross/Norris #is this a record? high” [Aside:- “What is the record for Blood pressure ? —– Zero” ] Accordingly I am back today using some pescription medicine to chill with. However the frenetic pace ofContinue reading “It’s a (one eyed) Dogs Life Special”

I didn’t write yesterday because I had guests – for our first BBQ of the year, then this morning I had a Zoom meeting, plus I wasn’t really sure what I had to complain about… I should have known better. The tree pollen in April catches me by surprise every year – should have startedContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 69”

I thought I’d wait a bit after the glut of daily posts. I’m not actually sure the number (68) means anything anymore, (also there was no number 11 seemingly). Everyone made it back safely, despite storms, covid, vehicle breakdowns, and ferry cancellations (weather and covid). I was going to write about how my – muchContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life 68”

Well, I am showered, and I cooked a steak dinner, and have fresh clean clothes on and now I may have a (small) wine and watch a film. It took all day, but it works. Of course I still need to build a cabinet around it, and it would have been a great deal eaierContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today – Finale”

Friday, and the sun shines, no-one is expected for lunch/dinner/visiting, so I have no excuse for not actually getting stuck in about the “to-do” list so that at least some things are completed for the big return tomorrow. However it appears that it’s not me who’s living the “dog’s life” at the moment. Reports fromContinue reading “It’s a Dog’s Life Today – No Way Home?”