After recently having a credit to my bank account, and not knowing why, I asked my previous landlord to forward mail addressed to myself. I offered to reimburse him for costs. If it were me, I’d collect up the mail, put it into a large envelope, and mail it. He has taken the ‘trouble’ to print sticky labels with my address and has forwarded ALL the mail from the old place including ones clearly marked ‘Current Occupier’ that are obviously from the energy supplier, and mail from the TV licencing people. I can’t help feeling he’s being deliberately obtuse. I’ve texted him twice, and emailed him twice, to stop now as I’m having to relabel mail, and post it back with a note on the back stating ‘Do not forward.’ Breathe…

Thursday, I went for my blood tests; I took a book, and a drink, and settled in to wait. 10 minutes later, I was walking out having been drained of vital blood. What a service! It was a lovely small hospital, ample parking and seating, and well run. In contrast, my son had to have blood tests some months ago at a different clinic and was waiting 40 minutes, half of that time he was standing as there were no available seats. Now I must book my ‘health check.’

This week I was delighted to see a squirrel run across the top of my fence, jump onto the neighbour’s fence, then scamper up a tree whilst being chased by a magpie. Okay it’s only a grey, however I’ve never seen a squirrel in my garden before, not even when we lived in the country. Granted, we have a lot of trees here unlike our previous house where the local council seemed to delight in cutting down as many trees as they could get away with.

The dog has again been in pain, has meds, and we’re making him take things easy. I suspect he has arthritis in his neck, just like me. I’ve never had a dog reach this age before and I’m guessing there’s worse to come. It doesn’t help that he still has a ‘puppy’ brain and likes to leap about and even fight with me, but he can’t do it now without getting hurt. Typical; we move somewhere with lots of nice walks, and he can’t come with us unless we only have a short walk and go slowly. I bought him a nice padded dog bed to lie on to keep him warm and will need to buy him some meds from the pet shop to ease his joints.

I’ve been sitting on the fence re iPernity, and for various reasons, I won’t be here after the big clear out of ‘useless content’ at the end of September. I always hated it when online friends disappeared from a site with no known reason, so with only 2 weeks to go, I’m giving you the heads up as to why I won’t be here after the clean-up of content. I’ll be online again before then and will continue to comment on blogs until I’m locked out. In the meantime, I’m looking at other sites, but so far, nothing grabs me.

Have a good weekend. Hope your weather is better than ours; drizzly, damp, and cold.