God afternoon everyone. Sunny intervals here.
To Shaftesbury this morning for shopping, including buying a blood pressure monitor (£49), as the GP wants me to provide a week's worth of results for her. It's an upper arm one which is supposed to be more accurate than a wrist one, and in any event my existing wrist one is well over 15 years old. I don't mind doing this monitoring exercise for our current doctor - she treats me pleasantly, and talks to me as a person, and not as a sub-human specimen to be lengthily lectured, which is a welcome change from the GPs at our last practice in Birmingham.
Whilst Mrs O was browsing, I wandered up to Tescos as they have a gurt big store up there which is walkable from the town centre and I can source various items that Waitrose used to stock, but now don't. I like Waitrose, but they do have this tendency to chop certain lines without warning - it was the same in Birmingham where they used to sell a Tagine sauce, but suddenly stopped. Memo to self - must ensure stockpile of tinned haggis.
Tomorrow is the big local agricultural show and a tent city has sprung up seemingly overnight at the Turnpike Showground, halfway between Gillingham and Shaftesbury. It promises to be mayhem on the roads, so we'll probably avoid it, although they are running special buses from both towns. SSE have just fitted the new LED lights in our street, and they have used the existing cabling and lamp-post holes (although they have changed the posts to make them nearly a third taller than the old installations). A much slicker operation than when they did the same thing up in Birmingham - that was a three-ring circus and we lived with trenches for weeks! At the same time Dorset CC are spot-repairing the estate spine road, so there's workmen everywhere. Great fun watching the modern hi-tech road-roller - as a kid, I was always fascinated by the old steam-rollers that they used to use on the asphalt.
Enjouy your day at home, Meriad!!
