No new photographs, so an old one of me, looking over my homeland as the sunsets..

Last Tuesday I travelled south to my younger son's, few days with the family and then just me, the young'un and two dogs!

All was well, then had a bit of a mishap, I wasn't taking out the older dog, bless him, but no way could I hold him and the young pup, a year old golden retriever who is already really, really big, I think if he stood on his hind legs his front legs could rest on my shoulders! and my smallest granddaughter.. 

I thought at the end of the walk I would put on his line, my daughter in-law runs with him on that, it's a long line, twenty plus foot possibly..

I hooked on the line, unhooked the regular lead, stood up and puppy ran! I slipped a bit on the wet grass then went down! Flat down landing what felt headfirst.. smacked my head hard, the right side, glasses went flying, phone from my back pocket.. 

Flipping heck! My poor little granddaughter seeing me laying there, and blood too coming from a cut on my temple.

I got up, puppy had tried to tie us up in the long line, but we sorted ourselves out and went home.

Not a good day.. and what a headache.. six days later and still have a headache, even on the other side of my head.. I think where there's so much space my brain banged against the other side of my skull!! 

At times I thought of going to urgency but haven't, Tuesday I had an ECG booked in, that was okay, well, apart from my 52 bpm.. 

Then opticians on Wednesday, eyes okay, need new glasses but that's mainly because the axis on my right eye has changed, quite dramatically, she said left eye hardly changed at all in last few years.. 

Full check up on eyes, so they're not damaged by the fall, at all.

I was then supposed to be seeing my doctor for a BP reading.. and that was going to be my opportunity to actually tell a professional about my fall... But on my way back in that direction I was notified the appointment was cancelled, she hadn't turned up for work... And I should get my BP done anywhere else! I did! It was normal, for me.

My train journey back here also wasn't without its own special type of fun! 

I had decided in the early hours I couldn't face a journey into London first thing on a Monday morning, I had mistakenly booked a return journey via London!?! I never make a mistake booking train journeys, an accomplished train traveller! Lols I say laughing.. it's been over a decade of using the Trainline App. for work, or leisure! 

I got a new ticket coming down by the by.. and so, I booked a new ticket, just go back the way I know, and feel happy taking! 

Unfortunately the Trainline app. thought mistakenly, even though I had the new ticket, that I was London bound, and refused to give me platform options en route! 

In Stevenage I got off my train, wondering which platform my Grantham train might arrive on when a train pulled in, announced as a Grantham train! So I boarded carriage C and sat down in an empty seat, not mine, but said unoccupied.

I quite soon realized although it was going to Grantham it wasn't my train! The ticket inspector, distracted by a fellow passenger, missed the weird 'bleep' my code set off .. 

I got off in Grantham, and boarded a train to Nottingham, that was an 'any time of day' part of my ticket! 

When I arrived into Nottingham an hour and a half earlier than I should have, an email told me my St Pancras to Nottingham train had been cancelled due to a fatality! And long long delays ahead!

Strange how things go isn't it! I would have been in St Pancras with no way of getting back up here! 

M.

And the Joker said...

"When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we start giving more value to what truly matters."