Friday, October 22, 2021

 

Mrs cheetah has moved her family beyond camera-range. We can but hope that she’ll move them back as the weather deteriorates.

 

I have little else to report. I had to deliver a urine sample to the GP this morning – not quite as simple as it sounds, but it all went smoothly. That leaves three diagnostic sessions to come (including the colonoscopy), one of which I had forgotten about and now need to set to work finding the details of. Next week I will see a respiratory specialist who is, to my delight, someone I met six or seven years ago when I had my pulmonary embolism. I have often wondered whether that had anything to do with my subsequent sense of weakness and decline: here is the perfect chance to ask.

 

Otherwise I do nothing except read. I have finished The Thursday Murder Club. I think it weakens towards the end. One of the columnists in the Times takes a swipe at it this morning, I have gone on to Elizabeth Strout’s Oh William which I am enjoying but it is not terribly cheerful.

 

 

 

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:20 PM

    Yes, Thursday Murder Club was fun but flung around too many red herrings toward the end. Oh William is on my list. I recently read Jack, Marilynne Robinson's fourth in a tightly interconnected quartet, which has now sent me back to reread Home, Gilead and now Lila. Good that you get to revisit your pulmonary history, as well as current condition, with the respiratory specialist, Jean, and glad to hear about the other investigations.

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  2. I am finishing up a pair of stash buster Strobus mittens for my great niece, and enjoying using up the little bits of yarn. I just received Rizzio from the Library, a new one by Denise Mina about the Mary Queen of Scots/Rizzio murder. Even though it may be gruesome, it brings back a happy memory of my trip to Edinburgh and seeing that tiny room at Holyrood.

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