That is ridiculous L.M. It almost equates to daylight robbery!
The price of stamps too!
I have put up the usual ribbons I suspend the cards from,can’t be bothered moving them for dusting ,as yet only seven!I got three books of eight second stamps and it was £24.Plus many hand deliveries.
I had some stamps in already but needed more.
I usually send more but keep a record so I don’t miss anyone out and if I have sent for two years but none come to me then with a couple of exceptions I don’t send again.
The list is shorter every year but at 87 some of my old friends are perhaps not able to afford the outrageous postage costs and some will have died and family not always aware who their old friends are.
Sad but that is life isn’t it.
Not looked outside yet, curtains still closed to keep heat in.
Not sure when son will return,depends how much to do at Head Office.
I have decided not to go to my daughter’s for Christmas ,it is very difficult travelling with so many medications and their inconvenient side effects .
I need to be in my own home where I deal with them better.
I am sad I won’t see the baby ,but I have thought long and deep about it all.
Just one example, one medication, Entresto, I am on the higher dose ,makes you very lightheaded and on standing I feel I am going to black out ,I take one dose at night so am usually in bed when that takes effect.Should I need the bathroom I have only to get out of bed and a two yard walk to the bathroom,here but at my daughter’s the bathroom is downstairs,with a very steep narrow staircase little more than a ladder,( try negotiating that when you are lightheaded!)two doors with clackety latches which sound through the house and probably wake other people , the hot water tank is in a cupboard in my daughter’s bedroom so that makes a noise when you wash your hands .
.I sometimes have to get up twice.
A huge lounge with open log fire but chimney not swept as a shortage of chimney sweeps! Insurance nor valid for fire if chimney not swept as no fire insurance certificate has been issued .So no fire burning cheerily and I find it very cold.
The joys of a 16Century thatched cottage!
It is a lovely cottage,well two together now as one but I am always so cold there, lovely hospitality and seeing everyone but a gruelling journey and then not my usual convenient arrangements and I hate being cold.
Oh dear,I am such a moaner but it really is not comfortable and my eldest son who is very good and helpful and understands I like to see the part of the family with chidren but I like to see him too and haven’t spent Christmas with him and his very pleasant wife since 2022, was with my daughter last year .
Gosh what a rant,but I feel guilty but can’t cut myself in two.
I worry I might not see those in Suffolk again ,I have do have a life threatening condition , the Cardiologist warned me ,have signed for no resuscitation etc.
Soooo-
Well lots to do , so another cup of tea and get cracking!
Cheerio,look after yourselves and I hope those with bigger problems re health are alright .
Viktoria.
