My September.

Hello my friends how are you all ? My September was a month like all my summer months this year it came and went with me doing not a lot because of my foot. But the one thing that gave me great joy and certainly put a massive smile on my sorrowful face was going to see Fleetwood Mac !!!! Oh WOW, was they special. I have waited more than 37 yrs  to see them and it was well worth the wait, I'll tell you. They were everything and more of what I imagined them to be, Stevie Nicks just has the most haunting voice its just magical to sit and listen to, I cannot describe the atmosphere it was just incredible . We went to the O2 on the Wednesday night when Christie Mcvie  came on to sing with them, what a surprise that was, We had heard that she may do one appearance but didn't think we would be there for it, oh it was fantastic when she came on stage the cheers from the crowd was just deafening, brilliant to be there. I will always remember the evening as one that was very special to me. My friend Frankenstein (the boot) came along as well unfortunately, I am still wearing him although I can go for a while in the house now without it on as long as I take care not to over do things. I have now had 3 sessions with the physio and have lots of exercises to do  daily so things are looking up, in a couple of weeks time I will be down at the physio's gym doing a lot more so fingers crossed in a couple of months time I will be back walking around and Frank will have being well and truly ditched.                                                                                                                                            

   I had my birthday on the 19th which was a very quite day just spent at home with hubby relaxing we went for a meal the evening before with our son which was lovely and a real treat. We went to the next village to ours, Egton Bridge which is a lovely little place  with a smashing pub called The Horseshoe Inn which I highly recommend if you are visiting its lovely.

 

                           

   
      I have ventured outside just up the lane not very far from our house which was a treat, I would usually take only about 15 Min's to reach the top of this lane but with the boot on it took me 35 Min's, not good, but it was lovely to see the autumn outside of a car window.  The sunshine on the river, the trees just starting to change colour, the berries on the trees and the little squirrel I spotted gathering his food for the winter, oh I do love this time of year.

   Well I will sign off now, say good night, take myself off to bed with my book and check in tomorrow to visit your lovely blogs.
Night night friends hope you all sleep well. Love Jill xx

Tears.

      

      Well !! If things do come to try us I think we are all tried out. Friday last week brought us bad news and a flood. We where sat having a cuppa about 3pm when the rain started to come down heavier than what it was doing. Hubby got up to look out the window at the river running down the front street and commented how bad it was and the rubbish it was bringing with it. He then looked out the back kitchen window and saw that we had a waterfall running down the steps onto the garden bringing the slate and gravel that makes up the path with it. We went out to make sure the drains where not bunged up with gravel but they just could not take the amount of water that was coming down. Living at the bottom of a steep hill we get a lot of water in our garden but it usually manages to drain away. We lifted the manhole cover that is in one part of the garden to help but it was coming down so fast it wasn't doing any good. I went down into our cellar which is our utility room and the men's work shop, and stepped into water, I had gone down to get some tools to help with other drain covers. By the time we had lifted the covers and got back down stairs the cellar was knee high and rising, it was pouring in through a hole in the wall which we didn't know was there behind a pipe. The drains just could not cope with the amount of water there was coming down. By 345pm we had to phone the fire brigade to come and pump us out it was awful no amount of bailing out with buckets was going to do the job more was coming in than was going out and my boot was full. They where fantastic and we will never be able to thank them enough for their help. We have managed to dry and clean the cellar thank god it was just dirty water and not sewage that came in. Lots of things in the cellar where OK but I had boxes of stuff for the car boot fairs that I had sorted out  and going to sell next year which have had to be sorted and most thrown away. We have said more than once that we feel very lucky that it was the cellar and not the sitting room and kitchen that got flooded even though it is bad enough the cellar.
 In the middle of the drama of the flood my Mum phoned to tell me that my cousin had died. We had been expecting the news as she had been very poorly in hospital so it was only a matter of time bless her. Janice had cancer and was such a very brave person while she was poorly and through out her life really as she had suffered with ill health on a number of occasions, some people do suffer and she is one of them and she really did not deserve it such a quite lady would never have said boo to a goose or called anybody she really was a sweet pure lady and only 61 yrs old.
  My appointment with the consultant for my leg only brought me more stress as I have to have the boot on for a few weeks more !!!! I have to have intense physiotherapy as the doc put it, and that will wean me off the boot. I cannot wait to take it off for the last time and throw the thing in the bin,
all I want to do is walk around normal, go out in the woods and touch the trees and feel the fresh air and wind blow through my hair, it all sounds normal but when you have not had a walk all summer it is a dream, but when I think of poor Janice its nothing is it. I have been patient with it up to now for 6 and a half weeks so a few weeks more will be nothing I suppose, I will have freedom one day !!
   Sorry to moan to you all, you are all good listeners and I'm thank full that you are there. I am just hoping that with the run of bad things that have come our way this last 11 mths it is all over now and that things can only get better, I don't  think I have any tears left in me now. Love Jill xx

Leg /foot.

   




                Just a quick post to thank you all for the kind comments you left on my last post and to update on my leg/foot. I have now got my date to see the consultant which is not until the 10th September by then I will have had this boot on for 6 weeks. I saw my G.P. last Thursday and he thinks I could well have it on for up to 12 weeks, I think I'll be pulling my hair out by then ( not really) Iv had enough of it now after only 4 weeks. It is so heavy and hot in this lovely weather we are having, its awkward to go up and down stairs and is starting to get a bit sniffy now, I don't have smelly feet but this boot is giving me one foot that is, oh the joys. I was only saying to my mum the other day that I have always had such great admiration for the poor people who have artificial limbs having to fasten them on and deal with such a lot but now I really do admire them even more after having this thing on strapping it up each morning, I know it is nothing like what these poor folks go through but it really makes you sit back and think that bit harder about them Ill tell you. I hope I don't have to have it on for 12 weeks because that will take me way past 25th September when I go see Fleetwood Mac and that will disappoint me after looking forward to going since march, oh well its only a boot !!! just have to put fresh ribbons on and maybe a nice long floaty skirt will hide it, but no dancing tut tut.
     Now something I should of told you a few weeks ago now. I won a giveaway from a lovely lady Leanne over at
     Tales of Simple Days . I was over the moon with my little parcel when Mr Postie knocked at the door to deliver it. The little owl earrings where inside the rabbit tin which is so cute. I once had a charm that was very similar to the owls that went missing and I never found it so these will always be special to me. There was some nice chocolate, a lovely little sign with Home written on it which is much nicer than it looks in the picture, a pretty t towel and some rose soap which is in my handkerchief box to make them smell loverly.Thank you again Leanne for everything and I'm sorry I have taken so long to post about them.
    Well that's it for now my friends I will leave you in peace and go and see what you have been up to. Hope you are all well and happy,Love Jill xx