Well it’s another “off the cuff” blog
today as I have been out all day. I seem
to have spent all day on my feet after saying yesterday about spending all day
on my bum. I can’t tell you how pleased
I am to be back on my bum and writing this!
My husband had a dental appointment just after lunch (well after
everyone else’s lunchtime but not long after breakfast for us as we are owls)
so off we trekked back to the town I grew up as that is where we both go to the
dentist. I had some pendants to post so
I took them with me to post while he was in the dentist. It made me realise how lucky I am to live in
a village and use a village post office.
The dentist is in one of those towns where they closed the main post
office (which was huge) and put it in the back of a mini supermarket type place
at the furthest end of town to where everything else is, and from where the
main post office used to be.
No problem I thought as it is just round
the corner from the dentist surgery. So
off I toddled while he went into the dentist 15 minutes early for his
appointment at 2.15 p.m. Well the queue
was so long in the small post office part of the shop and everyone took SO LONG
that is was ridiculous. What on earth
were they doing at the counter – some were getting their car tax (bearing in
mind we are now on 4th October and as far as I recall when I got
mine a couple of months ago, you can’t even get your new tax that starts at the
end of this month until after the 5th of the month. So I presume the people who were getting it
today were either late or had bought new cars.
Anyway that was only a couple of them so what on earth were the others
doing taking so long – we were dozing off in the back of the queue in the warm
shop in the warm again “summer in autumn” weather. When I finally reached the front of the queue
I must have been the quickest by far as all I needed was proof of posting for
my packages.
I finally got back round to the dentist
surgery at 2.50 p.m.! He was still in
with the dentist though so it just meant I had less magazine reading time than
I had expected. They seemed to just have
the radio on in the waiting room today (must be a local station as the
presenters were absolute rubbish) but normally they have a video running as
well about how to clean your teeth and what your mouth will end up looking like
if you don’t – a very good way of getting you to clean your teeth properly and
regularly I would think – but not so good for the dentist’s bank balance if you
did exactly what they showed you to do to keep sparkling clean teeth.
What I noticed most though was how unfit
I have become over this last year since my Achilles tendonitis. We used to dance all night doing some really
fast dances and my brain was active as we had to learn 2 or 3 new dance
routines a week. I had no problem with
fitness or learning the routines. But as
I could hardly even walk around the house last year and have only gradually been
able to walk further and over slightly bumpier ground I just hadn’t realised
how unfit I had become! But today when I
went round to the post office which wasn’t that far at all I was puffing like a
steam train.
The stupid thing was that I had never
been to the post office since it had been in the shop and someone had told me
it was in the back of the newsagents.
Well off I marched in my usual fashion of not taking notice of anything
around me and as I get up to where I knew a newsagents used to be I realised it
wasn’t there any more so I walked a bit further (definitely a slow puffing
steam train by now as it was uphill and against a strong wind – that’s my
excuse anyway) and then I realised I was way past where I was told it was so
was just trying to see if there was a sign up when I heard 2 ladies going down
the hill saying “I didn’t think it was this far” so I guessed they may also be
going to the post office. So I turned
round and headed back down again looking for anywhere that the stupid post
office could be. Well there was a little
clue in the form of one of those A shaped boards outside (that people complain
get in the way of their 60 mile an hour mobility scooter) advertising they sell
lottery tickets and the oval Post Office sign on the wall outside the shop but
more importantly there was this whacking great huge red round postbox outside
the shop and I had totally missed them all as I had walked past on my mission
to get further up the road. Just goes to
prove my point I have mentioned before that I am just so unobservant!!! I could have saved my puffing lungs – although
really it was very good for me and also brought up the point very clearly to me
that I am now totally totally unfit which I hate as I have always been
fit. Today proved that a year without
dancing (or any form of exercise at all) has proved so bad for me. I will be so pleased when the consultant
allows me to go dancing again.
We went to the supermarket after that
and fought our way round the doddery OAP’s and the mums with prams and
screaming toddlers. We normally go in
the evening but had thought we would do the shopping as we were out
anyway. We only go about once every 3
weeks when we find we have completely run out of fresh vegetables. But the only trouble is with shopping so
infrequently is the amount you have to put away when you get home! So I have not been on the computer all day
and decided I must write my blog before I even look at Google+ or Facebook as I
may get waylaid. Ok then, signing off
for today.
Anyway, here is todays wonderful snippet
of trivia:
Why doesn't
Tarzan have a beard?
The chuckle for today:
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