If only the rain had started
an hour earlier, Steve would have got out of bed when the alarm went off at
4.30 am and then seen that it was raining and climbed back in bed for another
hour or so. Instead because it was only looking a bit dreary and not
threatening at that time, we did get up make coffee get into our run kit and drive
to our start spot, and that was when the rain started coming down hard. We
thought it might pass and so we sat there and listened to the radio for a few
moments. It didn’t pass so instead we passed on the run there. Steve ever full
of hope then drove down to the sea front to see if the rain had already passed
by that point but it was raining as heavily there.
I noticed later when I
checked in on FB that a couple of triathlete friends had been even sillier than
us, since it was the birthday of one of them and he had chosen to still go out
for his birthday bike ride. Getting caught in the rain when you are well into a
ride or a run is one thing but going out anyway and taking your wife with you
wearing one of her many pretty pink tops doesn’t leave much to be said other
than Happy Birthday Clive, hope you enjoy the rest of your day.
We are hoping for a better
day this coming Sunday since that will be Stephen’s 70th birthday
and we also like to go out early for a morning mock up of a race, fingers
crossed for that then. We did do a couple of classes of Qigong but even then it
was too early to get on the turbo trainers to turn our legs round for a while. We
don’t need to upset anybody. Our neighbours don’t appear to get up anything
like as early as we do. So I got to work tidying up and later on, boring old
dusting and hovering got done as well as gardening, dead-heading and hacking
back the big climbing roses too.
My daughter rang to tell me
that she had, very kindly been to the pharmacy close to my doctor’s surgery to
pick up my prescription for me, but that it was not ready and in fact had not
been sent to them from the surgery. It only takes a couple of clicks on the
surgery computer system to send it through and I had ordered the prescription
on line last Thursday. The pharmacy is a couple of hundred metres away if that.
True, that the surgery itself is closed. They are managing to cope with only online
and I think telephone appointments. Still a week seems like a long time even in
the current state of affairs.
I have not been a pest at all,
under the circumstances, indeed I have been a pillar of patience but I am
running very low on my couple of regular prescription items. My daughter has
now been to pick up from the pharmacy several times now. I rang the surgery,
where there is only a very long recorded message due to the present state if
affairs and on the third attempt I did actually get to speak to a real person. I
asked about the hold up and the person said that it was on annual review! Nobody
had told me that!
Anyway I pointed out that I
had been having difficulties getting my prescription and was actually completely
out of one item and was told that it would be sent today. I have only managed
to get one prescription picked up during the whole four months of the lock down.
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