It is amazing how quickly we have settled back into life here.  Once a doctor was found I am called for blood tests, blood pressure clinic, mammogram and referred back to Stoke all within a week.  I thought that the NHS was supposed to be failing and falling apart but so far all seems to be running smoothly.  Even Mark has booked himself in to have a funny thing on his eye looked at.

So the weather is colder but we have heating so where is the problem with that.  The heating is a bit poor as it is only storage heaters but I am now the proud owner of an electric throw, not something that you use to capture and exterminate rats but an amazing warming rug which has solved the problem of cold legs in one swoop.  I love it and the way it works is brilliant as it cannot burn you so I am not allowed to get cold.

We have realised that the doors are going to have to be widened into all the rooms which is a bit of a pain, it is either that or I have got to go down two inches in wheelchair size and the chances of that happening any time soon are a bit remote!!   Still I suppose I will have to do something or my arse will become a local land mark with visitors coming to see the highest point in the fens!!!  Next week I will join Weight Watchers!!  I promise next week!

Today Mark reversed the door in the bathroom to open out into the corridor so that I can go in and shut it whilst I perform my ablutions in private!!  Nothing like doing a digital evacuation with the door open and a house full of visitors!! 

My sister and her family are all visiting this weekend so we will be taking them to one of the local attractions (No not my backside!!) the Butterfly Park which is in the next village.  Hopefully it will make up for the fact the kids are going to have to have a big sleepover party in sleeping bags on the sitting room floor.  I understand this is very popular amongst kids, personally I would rather stick pins in my eyeballs!!  But now we have at last got our BT Vision working we can buy them some films and keep them happy.  They can also clean out the fish pond, which will be very mucky work.  Our neighbours cut their hedge and the cascade (plastic rocks) is filled with clipping which I am sure is not good for the fish.  I am also hoping my sister will be able to advise me on how to look after these Koi carp the size of a good fish supper.

Dave and Ross have settled at last and are going in and out via their cat flap.  Dave has got very short legs and the flap into the house is quite high up and once he has his front legs through he has to do a sort of seesaw action and a wriggle to get his fat little body through.  It is really funny and I will try to capture it on film and post it, along with Ross the slimmer sleeker model who has taken to running down the corridor and bouncing off the wall about a metre up so that he can make the corner.  Another one to capture on film.  Both cats are showing a keen interest in the pond and I think that soon the worries about how to look after the fish may be solved along with the need to feed the cats.

Tomorrow we get our first delivery from Tesco so we will see how effective that is for shopping, then it is off to Kings Lynn to see what that looks like. Holbeach is a bit of a wheelchair disaster lots of very interesting little shops with steps and no room to move once you get inside so I guess we will not be going there too often. 

The RAF are bombing on the ranges tonight and it is a bit noisy but quite a sight once I get my all terrain buggy I will be going up to see them performing.  Until then I must content myself to nearly jumping out of the chair each time they fire off one of the bombs.  They lost one a few weeks ago luckily it has not been found in our garden!!