Day 38

Good resolutions sometimeds do not work out in practice. I was about to come and write my bog an hour ago and I thought I would look at the news headlines. Another Government Minister has resigned and divisions within the Labour Party look like tearing them all apart. Politics are very cruel. We did though go and vote in the local and Euro elections. We noticed both the candidates in the local election stood outside the polling station chatting to each other quite aimiably.

In the meantime we have hot water. Yes the saga of the new boiler and British Gas has finally ended. It started with a call from the fitter who was due to come and fix it for us to say that he wouldn't be able to come on Wednesday. I expressed disappintment and mentioned about my illness and no hot water. Anyway to be completely fair to the Guy he rang up his boss and we ended up with two fitters plus an electrician to do the work. It took the three of them half a day to remove the old boiler and fit the new one. The original idea was to have just the one fitter and that would have taken him about one and a half days. So the net effect of this was that the boiler was in place and working at the originally agreed time.

Good news also about Grandson Jack. Having taken Maths GCSE a year early we learn that he is going to start his A level in the subject and he will only be fifteen. The school clearly think he is up to doing not the easiest of subjects. We shall watch progress closely. It has been a busy time for various exams because Lucy has taken some SATS tests and we await the results.

Oh yes and I haven't mentioned anything about my state of health. This is mainly because there is not a lot to report. I am learning with Ev's guidance about what foods that can be swallowed easily and those which can't. We got some very good literature from the Oesophageal Patients Association about eating and also life after the operation.

All in all one of the better days.