Well another bloody weird week. I have had to cancel the holiday once again. My wife has fallen down and broken a bone in her knee again. The same knee as the last one two years ago and once again she is in hospital. This time it will be for another two or three months again. I feel for her and she has gone through a bloody awful time, but on a personal note I am sick of hospitals!
Today is Election day over here. The chances of the present government getting back in are very slim I think. I have voted for them but then I have been a Labour voter all my life. But they have had a lot of bad press and the chances are we will have either a Conservative government or a hanged parliament with no party getting overall power. How that will work out who knows.
I am going to try and get out this morning to take some photos. I have a lovely brand new camera and I have not used it at all. I need to take photos!
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Wednesday April 28th
Well so much for keeping up this blog on a daily basis! It has been over two weeks since the last post. Mary was very ill and has been on antibiotics and steroid tablets to get rid of a water and chest infection.
We had to cancel the holiday that we had planned to the Netherlands as she was just to bad to go. Thankfully she is getting over it now and I am going to rebook the holiday today. We have not lost a penny on the holiday thankfully and I will book with the same hotels as they were very good over the cancellation.
I still have not taken a single photo with my new camera. I am itching to get out and take something with it but due to Mary's illness and other things I have not managed to get out.
What I have been doing is reorganizing the house. All the rooms except one are now cleaned and sorted and the last one I will finish off this week. We both have a lot of clothes to get rid of that we no longer use and that has to be sorted. I am giving away a lot of stuff using 'Freecycle' and Mary prefers to take hers to the charity shops.
We have treated ourselves to a new wide screen TV and Blue-ray player. The TV is only 37" which is not massive these days but our room is quite small and it looks huge. It did not look so big in the shops, but the picture is excellent.
We had to cancel the holiday that we had planned to the Netherlands as she was just to bad to go. Thankfully she is getting over it now and I am going to rebook the holiday today. We have not lost a penny on the holiday thankfully and I will book with the same hotels as they were very good over the cancellation.
I still have not taken a single photo with my new camera. I am itching to get out and take something with it but due to Mary's illness and other things I have not managed to get out.
What I have been doing is reorganizing the house. All the rooms except one are now cleaned and sorted and the last one I will finish off this week. We both have a lot of clothes to get rid of that we no longer use and that has to be sorted. I am giving away a lot of stuff using 'Freecycle' and Mary prefers to take hers to the charity shops.
We have treated ourselves to a new wide screen TV and Blue-ray player. The TV is only 37" which is not massive these days but our room is quite small and it looks huge. It did not look so big in the shops, but the picture is excellent.
Monday, 12 April 2010
Monday April 12th
I have finally got the new camera that I have been trying to get for over a week. My wife has been and still is very poorly so we have not been out much. She was a bit better on Saturday so out we went to town to get the camera. Due to the extraordinary kindness of my old work mates I was given a voucher for £430 to spend in a camera shop.
I have always been a Nikon lover and the camera that I wanted and could afford was the D3000 SLR. I wanted a zoom lens as well so by paying just a small amount extra I got a Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens. What a combination! OK so it is not in the pro league but for me it is the best I will get unless I win the lottery! I am going to enjoy this one and want to get out as soon as I can to take some photos with it.
However my wife Mary is still very ill. We went out for a meal yesterday and she just not was not with it at all. When we came back home she went straight to bed and there she has stayed not moving. I will get a doctor today. I think she may have a severe water infection as the urine has just about stopped working. She had kidney failure two years ago and I hope that does not come up again.
I have always been a Nikon lover and the camera that I wanted and could afford was the D3000 SLR. I wanted a zoom lens as well so by paying just a small amount extra I got a Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens. What a combination! OK so it is not in the pro league but for me it is the best I will get unless I win the lottery! I am going to enjoy this one and want to get out as soon as I can to take some photos with it.
However my wife Mary is still very ill. We went out for a meal yesterday and she just not was not with it at all. When we came back home she went straight to bed and there she has stayed not moving. I will get a doctor today. I think she may have a severe water infection as the urine has just about stopped working. She had kidney failure two years ago and I hope that does not come up again.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Thursday 7th April
Yesterday we drove to Bristol to see ' Deal or no Deal'. If you have never seen the show click on the link. It was a lot of fun and we might go again to see it. The old guy who was there walked away with over £30,000 so he did alright. He went further than I would have though. I would have been happy with half of that.
Today with a bit of luck and if the wife is OK I will go into town to get a new camera. The incredible amount given to me by the staff of Cardiff Bus has been given in the form of a voucher from a camera shop. I want to get a Nikon D3000 SLR. I have been missing my SLR camera since it was stolen two years ago and although my Nikon P80 bridge camera is good it cannot compare to the SLR.
And this afternoon just for fun we are going to the hospital to see about Mary's foot. This is a long standing problem and she has to see the podiatrist about it today.
Today with a bit of luck and if the wife is OK I will go into town to get a new camera. The incredible amount given to me by the staff of Cardiff Bus has been given in the form of a voucher from a camera shop. I want to get a Nikon D3000 SLR. I have been missing my SLR camera since it was stolen two years ago and although my Nikon P80 bridge camera is good it cannot compare to the SLR.
And this afternoon just for fun we are going to the hospital to see about Mary's foot. This is a long standing problem and she has to see the podiatrist about it today.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Another day
Well today is Tuesday 6th April. The night at the club was quite a night and of course I had to much to drink. I might as well have tried to stop the tide coming in! The drinks were on my table before I had chance to say stop! In the end I had to stop people buying me drinks as I just could not take any more.
There was a presentation and a lot of nice things were said, to much to put in here. Enough was given to buy a new camera, one that I had thought of getting in three years and that was very touching.
So today my retirement really starts in ernest as up to now I have been on lieu days and if I was working I would have been on days off anyway. But this is really it and no more work at all. I will have to pay a load of bills of soon when my money gets into the bank one day this week.
Today we are going to Bristol to see the TV show 'Deal or no Deal' being made. I have seen TV shows made before and it is fun seeing what goes on behind the scenes.
There was a presentation and a lot of nice things were said, to much to put in here. Enough was given to buy a new camera, one that I had thought of getting in three years and that was very touching.
So today my retirement really starts in ernest as up to now I have been on lieu days and if I was working I would have been on days off anyway. But this is really it and no more work at all. I will have to pay a load of bills of soon when my money gets into the bank one day this week.
Today we are going to Bristol to see the TV show 'Deal or no Deal' being made. I have seen TV shows made before and it is fun seeing what goes on behind the scenes.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
All over now
Well retirement has finally come around. It is the 31st March today and I finished on the 29th. That was quite a day saying goodbye to a lot of people that I have worked well with in years.
I have arranged a drink at our club on the 2nd April and quite a few will be coming along I have been told. It will be quite a night because that will be the last time I will see many of them. I will go and say hello ocassionally of course but I have got along with many of them over the years.
So far retirement has consisted of house cleaning! I have left a lot of things 'until I retire' but now I have to get on with it. I want to get it sorted out over the next couple of weeks and there will be a lot of stuff to take to the tip for recycling.
We have arranged a holiday in Holland for week in April to go and see the flower gardens. That will be a nice change and we are both looking forward to it.
Hopefully I can update this blog on a more regular basis now I have the time.
I have arranged a drink at our club on the 2nd April and quite a few will be coming along I have been told. It will be quite a night because that will be the last time I will see many of them. I will go and say hello ocassionally of course but I have got along with many of them over the years.
So far retirement has consisted of house cleaning! I have left a lot of things 'until I retire' but now I have to get on with it. I want to get it sorted out over the next couple of weeks and there will be a lot of stuff to take to the tip for recycling.
We have arranged a holiday in Holland for week in April to go and see the flower gardens. That will be a nice change and we are both looking forward to it.
Hopefully I can update this blog on a more regular basis now I have the time.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Wednesday March 17th
Well today is my 62nd birthday and I have not put any blog entries for nearly three weeks. I have been quite busy in work but now have only eight shifts left to work.
It still does not seem real as I am doing the same job in the same office with the same people. But March 29th will come around soon enough I guess and then it may seem a bit more real to me.
Wales played Ireland last Saturday and got the result they deserved. They were rubbish with 75% of the ball and still could not score. Coach Warren Gatland says that they are going to feel pain. Surely they should have felt pain before the bloody game not after it?
Spring seems to have sprung this week with the sun shining and warm weather during the day. The nights have been cold but we can manage that. Today we are going out for a meal on my birthday. I wanted to go to a pub but the wife said can we have a pizza instead. Well I like pizza anyway so Pizza Hut here we come!
Happy St Patricks Day to any one from Ireland that reads this.
It still does not seem real as I am doing the same job in the same office with the same people. But March 29th will come around soon enough I guess and then it may seem a bit more real to me.
Wales played Ireland last Saturday and got the result they deserved. They were rubbish with 75% of the ball and still could not score. Coach Warren Gatland says that they are going to feel pain. Surely they should have felt pain before the bloody game not after it?
Spring seems to have sprung this week with the sun shining and warm weather during the day. The nights have been cold but we can manage that. Today we are going out for a meal on my birthday. I wanted to go to a pub but the wife said can we have a pizza instead. Well I like pizza anyway so Pizza Hut here we come!
Happy St Patricks Day to any one from Ireland that reads this.
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