15-03-2020, 08:23 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Very enlightening video Solo, I'm glad I don't eat any animals farmed or wild.
Some of the vets are better than some of the doctors I know, as me dad used to say, the first thing a doctor asks you is what’s wrong with you, while the vet gets no verbal clues at all, he’s got to figure it all out himself.
Well we are well and truly about to be self isolated according to the government, so herself and me are getting ready for the long haul, the younger relatives will be on hand for anything we need.
I hate all this fussing about us with the daughter, son, and the two adult grandkids, but I understand they mean the best for us, bless them all.
I went to the post office to collect me pension on Friday, the 13th by the way, and when I got there I had to wait with six other pensioners outside under the canopy as a heavy shower fell, not close together nor facing each other I hasten to add, once I lit a smoke they kept well away from me thank God, smokes do have their uses, standing outside a shop and lighting up a cigarette these days is like taking the pin out of a hand grenade.
It seemed the time lock on their safe was banjaxed and they had to wait for a “man” to come and open it up, the “man” was very prompt and came in a jiffy.
Anyway when I got home I sneezed a few times and my nose was starting to run, I caught a cold, simple as that, an ordinary common Winter cold.
But the missus and the daughter wouldn’t here of it, I was hooshed up to bed at arms length like a leper.
A few minutes later in comes the wife with a scalding bowl of vegetable soup and a packet of Anadin, they wanted to call a doctor but I insisted there was nothing wrong with me just a mild cold, no headache, no sore throat, no fever, nothing remotely like that. I asked her to make a hot whiskey and crush a few Anadin tablets into it, not to forget the cloves and lemon, that always dies the trick for me.
I managed to fall asleep then got up around 6pm, had a good dinner and sat in the armchair with a box of tissues sniffling the night away while watching the TV.
I’m grand now, but I can imagine plenty of relations of old people getting a bit panicky when they cough or sneeze after being out, even only for half an hour and locally like I was.
Awkward times these.