A blog for heart matters and natters.
A visit to the hospital today but beforehand we had time to do some Christmas shopping. It was nice to be out and about.
The consultant at the hospital signed me off, nothing more could be done but I was to carry on with the nasal sprays. Will I be able to taste Christmas dinner? Probably not. Again.
A walk round Alexandra Park in the evening to see the lights that have been installed as part of Christmas decorations. Then to see the bollards along Hill Road that have been covered with a variety of wooly jumpers. Some fantastic designs.
Two years to the day since I lost my senses of taste and smell.
I have got used to it by now, sometimes I can almost smell a random small selection of things, garlic, perfume, toast. Other days nothing. So something must work occasionally. But one taste that has always been completely blank since this started is mint. Toothpaste has absolutely no smell or taste at all. I hope that it comes back and then all the others might return too.
But it pours.
Lots of heavy rain today. A good day for the cinema followed up by fish and chips.
We bought a small fig tree and put it in an available pot but now it needs replanting so although not dormant it seems a good time to put it into a bigger pot which will suit it for a number of years. I wonder how many before it starts to produce edible fruit?
Lots of apples to pick this year. We have tried to wrap them and preserve them in a cool place in previous years when we had too many. But this year we have a new small freezer so we are cooking them until slightly soft then either blitzing them up or leaving them as they are. When cool putting them into containers and freezing.
Each to their own but I honestly fail to see why anyone would still wear a mask. I had to wear one all the time in hospital, which is the most likely place to get Covid. But to see people walking down the street in the open air wearing a mask makes me realise that the utterly dreadful media in this country have a lot to answer for.
The BBC is surely discredited in everything it now does. Their biased news is now shown to be be scaremongering and untruthful. Defund now!
