I was going to start off with the seven habits/quirks/facts about myself that I was tagged to do by melinda_blog in the comments on my last entry, but I'm having a bit of trouble thinking of seven things. I promise I will do it ASAP.

It's today (by today I mean Monday 18th February) and so, off I go, at 9.20am (having already put the rubbish out for the bin men, had a shower, had breakfast and bid farewell to Niki and Pete, all without noticing the weather) to my hospital appointment, hoping that it will be a little more productive than the last one (more on both in a while). I step out into the overly bright sunlight and discover that it is a day upon which it is traditional to tell everyone, and demonstrate, exactly how you do everything in repetative song form. Yes it is a cold and frosty morning.

We're all doing fine considering the fact that we got back just before 6pm on Sunday night from a stint in Sutton looking after Cats and Rabbits. It was a little more difficult than it has been in the past, partly because this was the first time we had Pete with us and partly (on my part anyway) just because we're getting older and less able. Pete loved the cats, although I'm not sure that they loved him as much and I'm sure at least one of them had a few bald patches when we left from Pete trying to play with it. He was a little less interested in the Rabbits and looked somewhat bemused by it all.

And so to the hospital. I had an appointment to see a doctor a few weeks ago about my recurring problems with the farmers. It was, to say the least a bit of a waste of time. Firstly after waiting for ages only to find that my notes hadn't been passed to the doctor when I came in, I was eventually seen and told by the doctor that he couldn't examine me because the bed they use is only a small lightweight one and it wouldn't take my weight, so to come back in a couple of weeks and they would organise another bed for me so they could examine me. So, as I said, I go back today. I got to the hospital about two minutes before the time of my appointment, on the white notice board is written the fact that the doctor I saw last time is away and another doctor is covering for him. After waiting for about half an hour a nurse appears and writes up on the white board "3/4 hour delay from appt time", oh great I think. After about forty minutes waiting, the fire alarm went off, nobody moves and the nurses carry on calling people for their appointments between the electro-honks of the alarm. The alarm carried on going for about ten minutes and when it stopped there is a spontanious cheer and round of applause from the people in the waiting area. After about one hour, I finally get called in and the new doctor tells me to hop on the bed, I question this and he said "It will be fine" so up I get. I am examined, prescribed for and sent out in about ten minutes, then have to wait twenty minutes for the out-patients pharmacy to fill my prescription. And I've got to go back in four weeks to do it all again, oh joy. Anyway, on the bright side, it turns out that it's not farmers that have been giving me problems all this time, it's anglers or fishers or something like that. Apparently these fishing buggers have been setting up their rods on a regular basis and the mess they leave causes all kinds of uncomfortableness.

I broke with tradition for me and actually went to the dentist for the first time in about five or six years the week before last. It turns out that I need a couple of fillings, three extractions and a crown fitted. So they've started with the crown and I had a temporary one fitted on the Friday of that week which fell out after 3 days, so I had another temporary one fitted last Wednesday which fell out on Tursday night. Luckily I had to go past my dentist on the way back home from the hospital, so I popped in to find out if I could book an appointment to get yet another temporary crown fitted. Amazingly they said if I could wait for ten minutes I could have it done right away, so I did and it was. My dentist said "If this one falls out, as long as the tooth isn't hurting don't worry about it, it's only a couple of weeks until you get your proper crown anyway", still there you go. It's still there at the moment but will probably be gone by Wednesday.

Well I think that's about all from me for now, see ya!