Neurologist

Later this afternoon I had my hospital appointment with the neurologist  to see what’s wrong with my wrists. It was a stand in Dr who was probably fantastic but he was Dutch with a heavy accent and we struggled to communicate. He say’s that he agree’s with my previous diagnosis that it is nerve damage – well duh! – and I should go for a nerve conduction test that I should arrange. I did tell him that normally the clinic arrange appointements and referals for patients and not the patient which he accepted as he asked as soon as I went in about my nurse training. I don’t think I did manage to make him understand that I’d taken time out of my studies. In the end I went and got the HCA to arrange my appointment!

Not so lazy after all

I did well today. After my earlier post in which I said I really didn’t want to go out,  I went outside and potted up those sweet peas. I also dug out the conifer hedge, prepared the ground by weeding and adding pelleted chicken manure and planted the grape vine to scramble over the archway. Yesterday’s snow had pretty much gone by lunchtime but it was still cold. I was fine in the greenhouse and by the time I’d been digging outside for a few minutes, I was warm in the garden too! Despite the snow and rain, the area I was digging was bone dry. That area of the garden is normally waterlogged but I assume the hedge has rain shadowed the soil below and taken out any water that came within reaching distance of the roots.

Lazy

I don’t feel like doing anything today but it needs to be done. I’ve been cooking this morning. I’ve made an apple crumble, some chocolate crispie cakes and some bread. I’m experimenting with the bread. I’ve followed the recipe for a 2lb loaf and added a vitamin c tablet. This bread maker turns out thick, yeasty and often hard bread. It said that vitamin c can improve the rise so let’s see.

The sweet peas I experimented with last week are doing well and are desperate to be planted now. I put the sweet peas I planted straight into pots in the greenhouse into the coldframe yesterday. I think I’ll put on coat, gloves scarf etc and brave the greenhouse to pot up these ones. I can’t wait for the new heater to arrive. I know it was expensive and we can’t really afford it but we wont get another like that for that price – its the Bio Green Arizona 2.8kw with thermostat etc. Yes it was an ebay buy again, it cost us less than £100 inc p&p for a £250 heater system that is less than 1 year old. If the receipt is with it, it will still be under warranty for another 2 years!