February 20, 2012

  • Monday 20th Febuary 2012

    Monday Morning: Cool and cloudy. Got woken at 8am with the arrival of workmen who are going to give the pool a face lift. Been a full on week....

    Chrissie had an accident on Thursday, Lucy the cat ran between her legs and sent her flying, straight onto the marble steps in the gold room and on into a marble wall. She wasn't quite knocked out, but banged her head hard as well as her hips, knee, ankles, shoulder and wrist so she couldn't move becaue of the pain. We have private health insurance so I took her to a new medical centre that has recently opened much nearer to us than any of the other hopitals and wow, what a contrast to the public hospital! We were seen within 10 minutes, then she had a immeadiate X Ray, then back down to the doctors where they gave her a pain killer and further examination, the whole thing took less than an hour. Fortunalty nothing is actually broken, but it's certainly pulled, bruised and twisted to the extreme, so she can't raise her arms at all and can hardly walk....

    Friday was clear     but windy most of the day, I did have a flight late after the sun went down with the SE5A but the air was cold and it wasn't as enjoyable as before....

    Saturday morning I went to town to get some shopping and pick Antony up. Beccie was having a very bad day with her mouth and wanted to go to the hospital to see about it btu Anotonys car wouldn't start again, so we took them and waited in the car park. I realise that the waiting is very tiring, mainly because the car is so uncomfortable, I can't get my legs straight. We went to Monroes for a quick lunch after Antony told us there was a 2 hour wait to see the doctor, but it had the usual effect of giving me heart burn, god knows what shit they put into the english food!

    Yesterday was partly cloudy, but warm when the sun came out. There was a medium northerly wind and by late afternoon it had dropped to almost nothing so I took the oportunity to fly all of the models. I had two flights with the Tiger Moth and one each with the SE5A and Lady B. The air was so still and thick by the time I flew the Tiger Moth for the second time it was perfect and the model virtually flew itself around on 1/3rd throttle.....

    I see the oil price has gone up again, consiquence of comments made by Haig provoking Iran to cut off thier oil to the UK... FFS keep your trap shut!