I am sat here chock full of tea.
My favourite, best looking, and most intelligent niece, sent me a gift of tea and biscuits from the 'taverymuch' company. The biscuits are frowned on by my highly specialised diet but were accidentally eaten just the same. The chosen tea was also a change from the normal Sainsburys 'Red Label' stuff, and very welcome it was.
That this is the only gift my family have scraped together for my, er..32nd, birthday says something. Most of them could not even get round to sending a card on time. One of my good looking and highly intelligent niece's did manage to get a card, forgot to write it, then her daughter took her for a day out so it did not get posted, and I only got to see it when the daughter, also good looking and highly intelligent, posted it on facebook! The other two favourite and good looking women both managed a card, three days late!
It is not that I require anything from them, it is just nice if they get the dates right. One niece managed to send everybody a Xmas card one year, nobody was missed out as was normally the case with her. We enquired as to her efficiency, "It's because I forgot to post them last year" she said. My brother got my Xmas present from her one year! He did not send it on.
On top of this shambles I have gone deaf.
Washing the other day left me deaf in the left ear. Nothing I have done since has moved it. Surely it is wax that is the cause, but the proper stuff to clear it has not made a difference yet. Another week and I will annoy the doctor, well the nurse probably, just in case something has gone wrong.
Using only one ear is a huge disadvantage. Nothing sounds the same, everything is different. Noises appear from all around and are difficult to distinguish with only one ear. I am amazed at how different things sound, and how much I cannot actually hear, the right ear being no longer as young as it was. How those totally deaf manage I know not.
Boris has been at work again. This time announcing the end of lockdown to go ahead, in spite of the increase in the Indian variant numbers. Boris and his pals are telling everyone to return to normal even though the variant is out of control. Vaccinations are not catching up and even the new Health Minister Savid Javid says we can expect 100,000 to be hit by this virus. These people are playing with the nation. 'Herd immunity' is being tried by not vaccinating the schools. All their press supports this stance yet the health experts say vaccinating schools ought to be done. The privately educated scholars may get vaccinated, you wait and see.
