Dentists and teeth

Well there I was eating dinner with some of my teeth, I say some of my teeth because they've been trying to escape and sadly they've been quite successful. I want to go the dentist but can't afford it they're so expensive even the NHS ones. Actually I can't find and NHS dentist to take me on they're are rare as hens teeth - what are hens teeth? Do hens actually have hens teeth and if they do what do they look like? If they have teeth does that mean if they were to be bitten by a vampire they'd become a vampire hen? I've just realised I wrote hems teeth rather than hens teeth just imagine if you hems in your clothes have teeth if the clothes got hungry would your jumper eat you? Shut up and stop being stupid hens teeth hens teeth bugger I'm not writing about hens teeth I'm writing about my teeth! Anyway. Had my dinner and at the end of the meal i realised that half of a tooth had escaped and taken a route along with my meal. Maybe my food was calcium deficient and decided that it would attack me and take half the tooth! So now I have what feels like a small wall on one side of my gums. Hmmmm dentists or food? Dentists or food what shall I do starve or go to the dentist sadly at the moment I'll have to live with the wall like tooth and buy food. As I take morphine I know it masks a lot of the pain from the tooth so the pain killer will hide some more pain in my body. I was asked the other day how long I'd been taking painkillers for and was shocked when I worked out that I'd been taking painkillers for nearly thirty years, my god that's more than half my life.

Actually over the last few days the other half of my tooth has started to become slightly wobbly so when it comes out and I manage to find it and put it under the pillow will the tooth faery take the tooth and leave me a couple of pounds or even five pounds? Or maybe the tooth faery will thump me because I've my looked after my teeth properly what a silly and strange imagination I live with. A well ill wait and see what happens and tell you later. However one thing I won't be doing is some self dentistry I was reading an article and found out that nearly 20% of older people have done self dentistry and from reading the article some people even take out their own tooth well all I can say is ouchhhhhhhhhhh

Writing blogs

Well yesterday I started the day badly because I thought it was Thursday and it seemed to colour how I coped with the day. All I can say is if I started it it was rubbish at the end or something happened and I lost what iwas writing and that was exactly what happened to me. I'd been writing a post and for once I seemed to be doing quite well and I'd got a flow going - oh I was so pleased with myself I think it read well and I so wanted to post it.
What happens as we post, well I haven't the faintest ideas how the iPad works so all I saw was something telling me it couldn't do anything like save, preview save as a draft so it would Dismiss if I hit the button. But all I wanted to do was save it if I couldn't post it, sadly everything I tried failed and the post went somewhere to a great dustbin in the ether where all those lost are hanging around to be found in some distant future when they will embarress us.
I was so cross with everything except myself because at the end of the day I'm sure it was something I did so my lovely post was lost so here I am complaining gently about a post I'll never write again because I can't be bothered now if it was some good I would of made the effort and rewritten it but I'm sure it wasnt all that good.
Ah well be safe be creative and please be happy

NOISE AND NEIGHBOURS

NOISE
We're all affected by noise, cars lorries, noisy neighbours, kids and animals. But for a lot of the time we live with this noise because its in the background. But it's when the noise becomes more than the background it's when it intrudes into our lives and affects us. This last week I've been living with a neighbour who has been having work done to his house, what the work is I don't know because sadly we don't speak much it's that nod that you do when you see each other. We've lived next door for nearly eleven years now his wife I often spoke to and we got on well chatting over the fence or whenever we saw each other, but her husband never really spoke to me I don't know why but they you have it. Well over this last year there were changes in the house and sadly his wife left and things changed.

Well we still didn't speak and the this last week the noise hit us suddenly on Monday bang bang bang bang drill drill drill hammer hammer hammer all day long from about 08:30 in the morning until 17:00 in the afternoon there didn't seem to be any breaks and it just drove Chris and me mad. Now Chris is affe ted by chronic fatigue and this noise makes things worse for him. Normally Chris needs a good nights sleep of about ten or s hours but that's not happening and I can see him getting more and more tired, but the thing is that I know when he's really tired he can have a petit mal fit which is like an absence you look at the poor boy and its like the lights are on bit no one is in. He has no memory of this absence and is totally exhausted and needs to sleep but thankfully this hasn't happened and he's just more tired than normal.

All I ask is that a person understands how this kind of noise can affect you, now my neighbour on the other side had a fire in his house and literally  had to have the house totally gutted, BUT and this is the really important but he came to us knocked on the door and told me about the work that was going to be done he apologised and gave us a bottle a whiskey by way of apology. Isn't this how we should act around each other with curtesy, I'm not bothered about the whiskey which was a lovely gesture it was the fact he came and explained to us what was going on.
So now it's Sunday and I wait worried that the Noise will return how will it affect my garden animals and insects the atmosphere of my garden. Because of the noise I wasn't able to concentrate on any kind of design work even making anything seemed to be beyond me. Now if I was affected this way how were my poor garden Faeries affected all I can say is please let them all be safe and secure. With all that work going on they'll be all sorts of pieces, tiny pieces of course, of iron in there garden next door now if he Faeries go I to there they may be hurt by the iron which I know is poisonous to them. Just think how awful all ths could be all I want is them to be safe and sound. So I wait for the new week, I've worked hard on some designs and want to work on them in the coming week. It's funny yesterday I started a new file on my laptop and started to draw and when I finished it turns out there are 158 different ideas to try out. Now which should I try out first for once I seem spoilt for choice.
Signing off now please be safe and sound I'd like it for you all to be there for my next ramble.
Signing off now for a stogie

Poor sweet Ella

Well I seem to have been slow with my blog all I can say is sorry I've not been at my best and then Ella our sweet natured Labrador had been ill since the start of December. It started when we noticed the one of the black cats had lost fur on her head and we checked all the girls and bingo Ella had it as well so we went to the vet, antibiotics etc and Quink was back to her bad tempered self but Ella seemed to get better and then she started to moult more hair and nothing grew to replace it!!!!
Back to the vets tests etc and all of them were negative nothing absolutely nothing our poor vet was worried she asked us to ring every few days and Ella was having remission and we thought brilliant she's  getting better-and boy were we wrong. Then it was anti biotics  steroids and a bath every three or four days and gradually she seemed to be getting better. Ella started to grow fur again and yes we stupidly thought we were winning and then virtually all her fur fell out at the moment we think she's carrying about 15% of her own fur. So come Monday she's back to the vet and please let her. Start on the road to recovery.
During the night recently she's started to ask to go out an be clean so I get up and let her out and then when she comes back in bingo she climbs onto the bed and goes to sleep. But the thing is she's an animal magnet and three of the cats want to sleep with her and then I need to find space normally I manage but I rarely go back to sleep thank god for the Internet and iPad kindle books and magazines.
So now we pray that she's going to get better. But sometimes I feel so helpless I help to bathe her stay with her stroke her help her if she needs it.

Languages!

Well I was looking at the facts and figures on the J's jewellery page, I love looking at these on the whole I haven't the faintest idea on how to use them but they look interesting and I'm sure that eventually I'll find out how to use them. So there I was walking through this garden of statistics and there were lots of things to see. So I investigated languages it never ceases the amaze me the languages that people speak, so there they are the languages of the world and the one that stands out  the most is English. So we have English English, American English, in fact all sorts of Englishness I always thought that English was just t he two languages - English and American but there in the column under English was English (Pirate) yes I kid you not. So who speaks this kind of English? I'm not sure but I have an image of Captain Jack Sparrow speaking Pirate English so anyone out there who knows what kind of English this is would they please let me know so that we can all know. So hopefully someone will be able to tell and I thank you in advance but if no knows we can all imagine a strange kind of English out there with really odd kinds of speech.

Christmas Cards

Well here I am and it's coming up to Christmas normally at this time of the year I would drive around and hand deliver the family cards. Usually it would take most of the day but it was really good fun about half of the houses I delivered to would have someone there and I would stop for a mug of tea and we would chat and then I would carry on and deliver more cards. I loved doing this meeting people chatting catching up on gossip all the things we all love to do. So it clicked this morning that I can't drive now and I've lost something really special. So to all my friends who I've not been able to deliver my cards to I'm really sorry, what I'm going to do is design a set of cards that I will print onto good quality water colour paper and then I'll hand colour them. So come the new year all my friends will be getting special cards from me and the boys. So for this year please accept my apologises it will not happen next Christmas.
         This has given me an idea so what I'm going to do is design, print and colour my own cards for next Christmas. So over the coming year I'm going to be designing these cards and when I've got the magic 12 cards that I like then I will print them out and colour them and come Christmas I will send them out in time. Actually I'm quite looking forward to designing the cards it's something that I've not done for quite a long time and I think it will do me a lot of good.

First one to start with

Well here I am starting a blog, I've talked about a blog before but always seemed to find a reason not to start the blog. So to Chris, my son, who writes +The Ramblings of a Mental Timelord thank you.

I want to try various things out and one is that I want to take a photograph of something in the garden everyday for a year. 

So by way of thank you for getting me going Chris I want to try and help you with  those jobs I seem to have avoided. I'm sorry that I didn't seem help you, so over the next few months I'll be doing those jobs and any others that I can help you with.

Having to stop driving.

Well the rules were laid down for me and I can't drive anymore, for the last few weeks I've had to ask for help in getting around. It's the little things I miss you know what I mean; the oh I'll just bob down to Leeds and get a few things well now where a job like that, that took a couple Hours it now takes most of the day and please don't forget anything because that means another day trip. So the question now is what do I do with my lovely Renault Megane, I've had a valuation and was pleasantly surprised at the value. So after Christmas I'll be selling my car which I do reluctantly but if anyone would like my car let me know and we'll see what can be done.