Yup, Just what you DO NOT need at bedtime! First of all it was flying round the room - I think it must have come down the attic stairs and crawled beneath the door. This is normally an August occurrence though. I put the light out, opened the sash window, and waited for it to stop panicking and locate the window. Some hopes! I sat there (having rapidly donned my dressing gown) hearing it touch the ceiling in various parts of the room. Then splat - and I heard silence. It had splatted the wall very near me . . . Main light on, lift up pillow next to me, and there was a stunned looking bat on the bottom pillow. I went and shook it out of the window but as you can imagine, I had to check the entire bed then in case any others were lurking beneath the edges of the duvet . . . I've asked Danny to block the gap at the bottom of the attic door. It's clear that the Universe is bored with mere medical challenges (a couple more of those this week too), and is ringing the changes. I am expecting a slow worm in the scullery tomorrow . . .
I had a phone call yesterday morning. It was our new neighbour. He was about to climb up onto the roof and wanted to know I was in just in case anything happened. Now, he regularly has mates staying with him, but he decides to go up on the roof when he is alone! I remarked that this was just a little short-sighted! Anyway, he went up safely, and later patched the cracks in the concrete capstone with some more cement. I took a photo of him but will spare his blushes and show you the rear view...
Keith's new mattress was delivered yesterday. This was recommended by the GP to the D. Nurses. Whilst it is an air mattress still, it's a lot less rigid than the last one, and where the Toto tilted up and over each way, this sinks. He moaned like heck for the first half an hour, and THEN we got the thumbs up! Phew.
Yesterday was a phone call day. Also a running around with prescriptions day. Of the 4 items on his prescription, only one could be supplied, two are on order (in this afternoon) and one no longer made so I had to phone the surgery again to get the product changed. Keith now has eye drops for an infection and needs dry eye drops too. He also has Atropine on order to dry up his saliva. Plus he is struggling with food now and so he is to have protein drinks and desserts.
My gardener was here yesterday so I have a tidy lawn again (though I couldn't get out there quickly enough to tell him not to cut down the Fox and Cubs in the lawn. I got him to leave the bit at the front, so that is like a wild flower meadow now. So pretty.
Final photos showed that the new fabric pens (which iron off) offer pink which shows up on the fabric border and makes following the stencil SO much easier! However, I screwed up by blindly going over the cable where I should have NOT done so, and probably have to rip out and start over. This is what comes of sewing in the evening when my brain is tired.
