"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[jpscloud]

I've actually managed to get an appointment to see a GP. I asked the nurse bandaging my legs how I was supposed to get an appointment to see a doctor (she was recommending that I do so). I have asked other nurses in the past, none of whom had any ideas. This one just wheeled me to the reception desk and told the receptionist to give me an appointment - and she did! Next Monday. Wonderful!

BG dropped too low while I was in the car so I had a can of sweetened coffee. Checked when I got home and it was up to 5.0. Just had an unsweetened coffee.



There's lots needing to be done in my garden. Plants still in pots (including shrubs and trees) that should have been put into the ground before this and other plants needing to be potted up, grass needing its final cut of the year, montbretia needing to be cut back - it's hanging over from both sides of the gateway, making it difficult for me to get past. Neil isn't feeling very great just now, so I can't ask him to do it (I can do the potting up but I can't carry the compost in), Alistair isn't fit either. It will just have to be left and hope the plants survive over the winter. At least the montbretia will die back sometime soon.

Well done getting that appointment!

Montbretia is an absolute beast, I've banned it from my garden although my mum loved it. I love the flowers but it spreads so vigorously.

I still have loads of jobs I haven't done, and probably will leave until spring now - sometimes things just have to fend for themselves over winter!

 

[Fairygodmother]

At last, an appointment, but how frustrating to have to rely on the kindness, or good sense, of others to get what you need.
Maybe the GP knows some good person who’s able trim back, to plant out and pot up in the garden. Worth asking.

 

[Fairygodmother]

I’ve not eaten breakfast yet, I’m being lazy, but it’ll be porridge when I do, the good stuff that’s not been denatured to mush.
Had a lovely morning with a Botany group yesterday which is led by a couple in their 90s. He used to work in a teaching and research centre nearby which has sadly been closed, and before that spent time teaching and researching in a range of places round the world. He’s wonderfully knowledgable. And they’re both so warm and friendly. We meet once a month and I love it!
Thinking of your monbretia, Annb, yesterday he showed us pictures of a beautifully bright red hybrid he’d created from an orange monbretia and a red crocosmia. He offered each of us a plant of it but I feared it’d become just one of the multitude that are regularly thinned here in our garden and I’d lose it.

 

[Annb]

I’ve not eaten breakfast yet, I’m being lazy, but it’ll be porridge when I do, the good stuff that’s not been denatured to mush.
Had a lovely morning with a Botany group yesterday which is led by a couple in their 90s. He used to work in a teaching and research centre nearby which has sadly been closed, and before that spent time teaching and researching in a range of places round the world. He’s wonderfully knowledgable. And they’re both so warm and friendly. We meet once a month and I love it!
Thinking of your monbretia, Annb, yesterday he showed us pictures of a beautifully bright red hybrid he’d created from an orange monbretia and a red crocosmia. He offered each of us a plant of it but I feared it’d become just one of the multitude that are regularly thinned here in our garden and I’d lose it.

Sounds great. I have only one crocosmia - bright red and bigger than the montbretia. It holds its own and can always be seen because it is "head and shoulders" above the montbretia. I love montbretia. It is such an elegant plant and really brightly coloured. Here there are loads of them, growing wild - a small field full of them at the end of our road. When things grow here, they grow really well and go wild fairly quickly. In our garden there are wild pear trees (not sure if it is pyrus communis or pyrus pyraster) which spread really quickly and blackthorn (hippophae rhamnoides) which is threatening to take over the road. We also did have some pampas grass (which I was told recently was an invasive species) which we did manage to kill off, or the wild pear did, by giving it too much shade and it gave up the ghost.

Breakfast was more chicken and leek soup with a couple of RyVita. There's still another 2 helpings of the soup left.

2nd meal will be pan fried haddock with some stir fried veg.

At last, an appointment, but how frustrating to have to rely on the kindness, or good sense, of others to get what you need.
Maybe the GP knows some good person who’s able trim back, to plant out and pot up in the garden. Worth asking.

The GP with whom I have an appointment is a total unknown to me with a name whose origins I can't identify. Probably a doctor doing GP Practice, so only here for a few weeks or months. That seems to be the norm here. Most doctors don't want to come here to live. Obviously there are a few and they are the core of the practice, but I have only seen fleeting glimpses of them in the last few years. Never an appointment.

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