A strange month

Not much to report on this last day of January. What a strange month it has been for me. It has been a change of pace akin to running into a wall at full tilt! I still feel a bit faint sometimes but I'm beginning to see a little bit with my left eye which is good. I have also been very touched by the many messages of goodwill and even visits that I have received from friends and colleagues.

Today Jamie came for lunch to meet Tom and Ruby. He thought that they are very sweet. They did not live down to their recent nicknames (coined by James of course!) of Poopy and Pisswizard. Poopy because of Ruby's occasional careless habit of stepping in her own poop and Pisswizard after a shameful incident in the downstairs shower tray by Tom! For which he showed no remorse! 

Jamie is full of the joys because he has just bought his first new car - the now deceased Nissan Micra aka "Mario" was of course his first car, inherited from Gran, and will always have a place in his heart. The new one is a bright blue Volvo and after long and agonising (for all of us) negotiations and soul-searching he has finally signed for it and will collect it on Wednesday.

After Jamie went home James made a lovely steak dinner and we watched the first (double) episode of a new drama called "Fortitude", which seems a bit like Wallander crossed with Fargo. It has a distinguished cast and beautiful snowy scenery (filmed in Iceland but supposed to be set in the north of Norway I think). We will see how it shapes up.