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Drizzle. Partly sunny. 6 - 7℃
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Drizzle. Partly sunny. 6 - 7℃
Folkestone was on TV last night, on BBC2, a new programme were Andi Oliver travels round cooking food. This was a bit crap though, she made out it was a war zone down here and the only thing that could bring the community together was her making some dumplings. Because it had a multicultural theme, and the chef from Rocksalt is Polish, and we do have a big Nepalese community, and she found one person from Ukraine and two from Syria, and HEY all these countries like a dumpling! So contrived. Really focussed on things like the traffic queueing up in Dover when the port has problems there, and the migrant boats arriving, and then showed footage of racist demonstrators outside the barracks up the road. Not representative of the area. Then there was the "hey I just spotted a bandstand over there" and "I think more people should know there is a Nepalese community here".
The main other person in the show was some johnny-come-lately from Ashford too. Get back to Ashford mate.
There were two people I know actually featured in it (Chris Smith from Chambers and Shane Record from Shane Record) and I spotted a couple more in the background. It's worth watching this programme only if she features a town you are familiar with, otherwise no.
Working from home today, partly to run around after Clare.
Also there's free energy again today, for two hours1. They could do with some of this at the school, their heating has packed up and T2 is allowed to wear non uniform today to stay warm. Well sort of, PE kit with joggers and hoodie, still school colours, not completely free-form. T1 has an even more complicated "non uniform PE top" day today, he can wear a sports top of his choice to raise some funds for the Bobby Moore cancer charity.
Light rain and a moderate breeze, 6 - 12℃.
Finally been seen by enough people, the most senior of them thinks carrying on with the antibiotics is the right thing. She's allowed to come home, without any operation. So possibly they just want the bed. I hope she has been able to get the follow-up appointment she wanted before she left. Worst situation would be coming home, then getting worse, and having to start all over again. As always, will we remember the only way to get anything done is to go to A&E right away? Probably not.
We visited last night after work, she was feeling much more positive then and expecting a scan soon. Then after we'd gone home (getting a Taco Bell for the boys on the way) she had the scan, and so the ball started rolling for her release, and she got the OK this morning.
It's too late notice now for me to go into London for work tomorrow isn't it? I'm still needed here.
There was free Octopus Energy today1, I managed to get a wash and a dry in but not not two dries because I was busy with work.
Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze, 2 - 9℃.
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Passing clouds. 6 - 7℃
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Scattered clouds. 5 - 8℃
She's still in hospital. I visited yesterday afternoon. She has her own room and her own loo which is nice but I think it might actually be better to be on a ward with people moving around you. She had not eaten, had been asked not to as she's going to have an ultrasound1 and then maybe an op after that to remove the troublesome tooth root. While I was there we asked about timeline, so the nurse checked. Oh no, you can't have an ultrasound for at least TWO DAYS. So yeah, you might as well eat. I wonder when they'd have told her this if we hadn't asked again?
The antibiotics hadn't done the job so far, so she might have a CT scan today, as they can do that a bit quicker. And today she is feeling a little bit better. Yesterday she thought she was feeling a bit better, but then saw the consultant who told her no, you're not better.
No London for me this week. I was going back to visit at lunchtime, but she has more visitors today so we'll go after work instead.
I did do some more jetwashing of the patio yesterday as I had some afternoon off left over.
Belle And Sebastian Bowlie Weekender at Camber Sands was TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO today, and Andy and I went to see Poison at Hammersmith Odeon thirty-one years ago today.
Light rain and a moderate breeze, 4 - 10℃.
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Passing clouds. 5 - 8℃
Waiting to find out if we can see her. There's a fragment of tooth left in there that is causing the problem, it's being blasted with a drip of antibiotics so it might not need taking out again. This is probably oversharing now isn't it?
Partly cloudy and a moderate breeze, 5 - 11℃.
Just descaled the coffee machine, that's probably enough jobs for the day. I tried to get outside again, and it started raining again. Tried to take the boys for a walk, and the same. We're having one more go and taking coats.
I have to go up to Tesco now and hope I can get a new iron. Ours just massively overheated, actually started smoking. Only a minute or so away from actually catching fire I reckon. Unplugged and off to the recycling centre for you mate! But I have ironing to today, shirts for school tomorrow. If we can go for a walk in the next few minutes I can be back in time to head up to Tesco for last-hour-of-the-day bin food bargains too.
Clare still at the hospital waiting to see someone. She has been triaged to the GP, probably the longest wait of all.
Guessing 1704 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 probably comes to £1.06 per cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 but not the 'leccy).
The second lot of resale tickets (where people paid a deposit then changed their mind) sold out in twenty-two minutes. Earlier in the week the resale of tickets-with-coach sold out just as quickly. Still sounding like the worst lineup ever but it's only going to sound worse to me every year now, as the acts get newer and I get older. Would still like to go again, dno't suppose we'll get the chance. Maybe try again next year.
I must remember this technique when I want the garden watered.
Sunny intervals and a fresh breeze, 5 - 10℃.
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