A Sunday Mixture

Hello everyone,

 

A much earlier entry from me for a change.  I thought it would be a good idea to post an entry before I read journals, just for change.  Ever a creature of impulse me...lol!  It`s still very hot and humid but still bearable, maybe I`m just getting used to it after the temperatures we`ve had this Summer.  I`ve been wearing vest tops and shorts for ages now as it`s been far too warm for proper clothes, except last Friday when it became quite cool and, horror of horrors, I wore a sweat top and trousers!

Kerry and Slava popped in this morning with a rather spotty Roman, he is covered in a heat rash that luckily, doesn`t seem to be bothering him too much.  He doesn`t seem too bothered about the heat but is a bit cross because his teeth are playing him up. I suppose none of us know how painful it was to cut teethy, it`s not as though we can remember is it?! 

I`ve been doing a bit of tidying up in the garden, cutting back dead wood, dead-heading etc.  I`ve noticed some odd things going on out there too.  The magnolia has started to flower again, unheard of, at least for my tree.  On one of the yellow petunia plants, a small mauve flower has bloomed.  It`s similar in shape to the petunia but with less fragile petals.  Has anyone ever seen this happen before? One of the climbing roses is still flowering even though it should be dormant at the moment and don`t even begin to get me started about the influx of odd-looking insects out there, some of them look positively alien!

This morning while Jim was buying petrol he saw a man leaning on the bonnet of his car reading the paper (as you do at petrol stations!) and....smoking a cigarette.  Instead of confronting the man and getting a mouthful of abuse he told the station manager who was very alarmed and went a told the man to to put it out at once.  It is unbelievable that the man didn`t realise the dangers of fuel and flame together.  Jim works with fuel all day long and knows that the danger isn`t in the fuel itself but in the fumes that you don`t see.  He`s not even allowed to have his mobile phone switched on as a spark could ignite the lot.  If that had happened in the petrol station I shudder to think of the consequences of that man`t stupidity.

I`ve spent much of the morning doing the ironing and clearing up.  Tomorrow I`m going into hospital for a minor op that will be done om Tuesday.  I will be home that evening so I won`t be away for long.  There is the distinct possibility that after admission tomorrow I`m be home for the night and go back again the next day for surgery.  It sounds a bit daft but apparently they do it to stop doctors filling the beds with new patients which would in effect slow down their surgery lists.  Confused?  Not as much as I am...lol!  I`ve told Jim that tomorrow morning I`ll be taking lunch in a cool bag as I`m not prepared to eat hospital food.  It`s bad enough having to be there without the thought of the food as well.  Anyway,  that`s it from me.  Have a lovely relaxing Sunday, take care and Bye Bye for now. :o)