A blog for heart matters and natters.
First the good news. I qualified then applied for a bus pass and it arrived in a few days. Very easy to apply and do online.
Bad news, where can I go and why?
Typical, I finally become a bona fide OAP and can legally be grumpy and politically incorrect. Does that mean that I can call Labour a bunch of dangerous liars and idiots? No I guess that is being polically correct.
Well, who would have thought that this year would have been the same as last year?
Oh everyone.
It's like a bad version of Groundhog Day. Let's hope for a happy ending very soon.
There would not have been a meeting today as everyone would have been busy preparing for Christmas, I guess.
So, I hope that everyone has fantastic Christmas and a Happy... er... Happier New Year!
It certainly has been a different year so far.
It's beginning to look a lot like er... Christmas?
What a strange time. Well, we shopped locally as always. Though it was very different this year but the shops had gone to great lengths to provide a true local service.
Who needs the utterly loathsome Amazon when the local Clevedon bookshop will get orders in and deliver to your door?
And though they are not very local but West Country based, we did get Miles coffee and tea to send as presents.
It was just a shame not to be able to browse around as normal with Christmas lights and songs and crowds of other folks doing the same.
I had an appointment at Weston General Hospital early in the afternoon yesterday,
My wife came with me and we took the opportunity to go round Weston shops in the morning (for essentials of course).
Whatever anyone thinks of Weston, we have always enjoyed going. As well as some of the chain stores and national coffee shops, Weston has quite a number of independent shops cafe's.
It was very sad to see them closed due to the lockdown and even more depressing to see that some are now permanently shut.
Some have closed because of online shopping. Is there anything worse than buying from an internet site, particularly Amazon. Owned by someone set to be a trillionaire whilst his employees work for just above the minimum wage.
The staff at the hospital were excellent and my appointment was on time and everything would have seemed normal apart from the mask wearing and screens.
And now North Somerset is going to be a Tier 3.
Did anyone have fireworks and a bonfire on November 5th?
At least Halloween didn't happen, one of the very small pluses from this rotten second lockdown.
Wow, what a lot of rain this month. About a fifth of the years total rain fell in this month.
I have not seen any reports of hosepipe bans!
