What are you all up to

That would be good F, I cannot recall if you said your wife has a mobility scooter. If she does, HC shouldn’t be a problem to get round most of the gardens. Not sure of woodland area. You could check if they have anything for loan/hire as lots of places do nowadays. But I’d do it well in advance, as they often get booked up quick. On the plus side, there are lots of benches, seats as you go round, so even by foot, there’s quite a bit of scope to see plenty. I cannot recall if it has buggies that drop off, climb on, but worth googling. All the best with the hip op, hope it happens asap.

Grey with thick cloud here at the moment, but very dry. Early get away for me from Mum’s shortly. It’s eye test for me later🤓

Thanks TDA, but no, it’s not that bad that she needs a mobility scooter, but walking any great distance ain’t going to happen. Good to hear there’s plenty of seating. We’ll just take our time and try to soak it all up. Who knows, I might find some inspiration 🙂

There’s plenty of inspiration, but be wary of buying plants…..top price. I only do plant rescue tables there, got a lovely neglected little Clematis Pixie for £2. Gave it some TLC and it’s now doing great. I think they wanted £15 for one not in throw out bin at the time🤭 some lovely stuff in shop though.

Rufs

Just tried and seem to have managed to get in with no problem. I use an Android Phone.

David

Freddy

Margaret is in the same position regarding her hip. It was one of the reasons we gave up motorhoming. She was initially referred to a non NHS facility who were able to offer the operation quite quickly but there were two issues. Firstly neither were in MK, one in Kettering and the other in Banbury but the second issue was that as she has had a heart bypass it seems the hip has to be done in a main hospital. The downside of that is much longer waiting lists! She had a message today telling her to select the hospital and set the initial appointment with the Consultant so its only then we will get an idea of the cost. Our two boys keep telling her to pay to have it done privately, whether that happens might depend on how long the wait is. She seems to have got very bad over a fairly short space of time? Fingers crossed that your wife gets it sorted soon.

David

Came home via the Staffordshire moorland, dropping down into Leek this morning just so we could view the heather which is starting to bloom very nicely.  Wonderful ride. Probably a bit longer route than coming over the Cat and Fiddle to Macclesfield but variety etc..

Got the most out of the 2 days and really refreshed mentally if tired physically.

Home for 11 ish in time to unload the bikes before the rain. OH just back from taking her mother for her annual hearing test. Seems fine so the Stroke didn't affect anything in there. She also took the opportunity of getting a walk around the shopping area as it was relatively quiet.

Not the nicest of days.

Good to hear the news on your GS Nellie. 

Tks David, it would appear that in some areas you need to either reload the app or simply reboot your phone, software ugrade, but as usual no prior warning

This area is a minefield, a friend was on NHS waiting list for hip replacement, told 18 months wait time, agreed to go private, found to have a heart murmur, private hospital said they could not do hip replacement, had to have valve replacement to fix heart but private hospital still said no way, went back to NHS and found she was now bottom of the list which now had a 2 year wait time.

She had hip replaced some 3 months ago, fell last week and broke her femur, some folk have no luck, thank my lucky stars both knees replaced and hips seem to be reasonably ok, rub iboprofin into them every day

p.s. £15k for new hip, £12k when i had my knees done privately, however, NHS paid bonus

There have been 2 updates to the NHS app recently. I received notifications of both and it’s working better now without the need to have a OTC texted each time.

yes do not fully understand how they work the updates, never had any kind of notification, however, i now notice that there is a box to tick for "remember me" now, which i guess will negate the need for OTC, but i never updated the app simply rebooted my phone, but it works thank goodness, getting repeat perscriptions via the surgery web site is a bit of a chore.