Sometime, hopefully, in the next 2 to 3 weeks I’ll be in hospital for about 7 days for a majorish surgery. I’m currently assuming I’m going to be boried a lot of that time and one of the things I’m sort of planning on doing is posting here more often on the days I’m feeling well enough to do so… At the very least I will have 2 days before the surgey in hodpital as they change over the blood thinner I’m currently on to one that can be neutralised during the surgery itself.
Author: Gerry
Hearing aid tests
I’m currently waiting for my hearing aids to be checked as its the 6 year mark! My hearing isn’t worse which is great and at least I’m getting this in between covid-19 lockdowns!
Christmas decorations
Decorations are going up in the central city now too. Nothing too interesting yet expect for the yearly C&S Christmas windows.
Christmas decorations
Decorations have started going up in ghe central city, so I thought they would be a good way to give the wordpress app a test…
Covid-19 vaccination
I’m having my 2nd vaccination this coming Monday and I’m going to be very pleased when it’s over and done with! 🙂 Then it’s just a matter of waiting out the 2 weeks so I can go from the 90% coverage to 95%. I could have gone out today to get it done as I’m passed the 3 week mark by now, but I thunk it’s going to be a lot quieter on Monday – which is when I have my appointment set up for anyway…
I am getting mind numbingly bored with this lock and I can’t wait until enough people have been vaccinated for things to start going back to normal(ish) again. I can do some work from home, but not a lot so don’t have much to do and I’m sick of watching stuff on Netflix/Prime Video by now.
Harlee Pic
Harlee
My parents got a new cat in February – just before the first covid-19 lockdown luckerly!! She has settled in nicely and is getting on with my brothers two burmese cats too.
Smoke from Australia
It’s very dark now and has been too dark for an summer afternoon. The cooler of the light has been slowly darkening from a general “it’s too dark for this time of day” to “it has a noticeable yellow tinge/colour” and now it’s a dark orange colour!!
It’s due to all of the smoke from the fires in Australia of course. Given how bad it is I’m just pleased that I’m not in Australia.
“Starve Acre” by Jonathan Buckley
I’m going to try to keep track of some of the books I am reading. At the moment it’s a horror book called “Starve Acre” by Jonathan Buckley. It is very, very good so far and I’m pleased I decided to randomly grab it when I spotted it as it’s well written and an interesting story!
It’s a small book with a short page count, so it’s definitely more of a novella rather than a full novel. I don’t think the plot would have coped with being padded out to being a longer story though, but the novella length means the writer was able to go into enough extra detail to make it more interesting. A lot of the story much happens, with short sections of actual action as such, which might have gotten old with a longer book.
It does come from a private publishing company, Eden Book Society, who only publishes horror novellas and all of the authors are published under a pseudonym. If the quality of the writing and story in this book is anything to go by I am going to have to keep a close eye for other books published by them!
Otis
My eldest niece had named their new puppy Otis. (I am assuming they named him after the dog in The Adventures of Milo and Otis despite the fact that the dog in the movie is a pug and their Otis is a Beagle). He is rather hard to take photos of as he’s very energetic and all over the place, I have tried but I’m currently not that happy with the results… Especially given that you can’t see his face clearly in any of the photos I have taken so far.
