WOYWW 769

Another week and things are looking up.  Last Wednesday was spent all day more or less on the internet trying to track down a Dolomite Jazz Rollator to replace the one that had no brakes.  The phone call to Chessington was so disappointing, they no longer make the Dolomite!!!  And so began my day of internet searching.

Tracked a second hand one down (after much searching) that was only £90 (mine had cost £360 brand new years ago) but on reading lower down it was in Southampton and 'collection only'.  A little too far to travel from up north.  And so eventually I gave up and began looking for something similar.  Eventually narrowed it down to two, a Drive X and a Force Premium Luxury Lightweight.

By this time I had decided to buy locally in the hopes that they could help if anything went wrong but on ringing our local store I found they had the Drive Nitro (similar to the X) but had not heard of the other.  Price £249.95.  On looking to see the Nitro on the internet I found that the same company had this one in their showrooms for £50 less but at another branch.  Still not too far away.  What to do?

That is quite a substantial difference in price but the lady at our local branch had been so kind measuring the height of the handles on the two rollators they had.  I have such a soft heart I really was tied.  Fifty pounds is fifty pounds!  What would you have done?  

Well, I do have a little papercrafting to show you WOYWW members that is new.  A lovely friend sent me some images for me to colour in if I wanted to and I did.  And now I can show you a bit of what I did with my Inktense pencils.  It was done on my lap on one of those trays with a bag attached underneath full of polystyrene balls.  I balanced my pencils on the chair arm and then dribbled water from my straw in my drink onto the craft mat in order to wet the crayoning with a brush and turn it into watercolours.  Get the picture?

Sorry about the shadow

here's an old blog page from 2022

and here are some flowers I received this week

from a lovely friend

Aren't they lovely?  But there is a funny story goes with them which is why I am showing them to you,  Now as you may remember I am stuck in a chair most of the time with my leg up.  These flowers arrived in a cardboard box and I wanted to arrange them myself so I had the box balanced on one chair arm, a tray with a vase (no water) on my lap and a pair of secateurs.  Once I had the flowers arranged I sent them off for a much needed drink and began tidying up the tray when I felt a "nip" on my arm.  To my amazement I had a little brown beetle gnawing away at me.  A hasty flick with some paper and a shout for 'help' got him removed to the compost heap.  Talk about the flowers being fresh!  And they smell beautiful.

The crochet is not progressing as intended I am having problems turning a corner and going in the row already done.  I have tried and tried but it looks awful.  I just don't seem to be able to count the chains.  Any ideas you ladies who crochet?  This is me trying to go and do a second row:

Now be honest, my second attempt is worse than my first here.  I think I am one of those learners who needs the teacher sat at the side of her.  But I will persevere.  I cannot believe I once crocheted that mat I showed on here some time ago, but I know I did, and with no help.

Well, that had better be it for today, another good report from the District Nurses.  It doesn't look much different when you see the photos but the swelling is going down all the time, and the hole is shrinking.  They are pleased and so am I.  That spurred me on to go to the Podiatrist and get my feet sorted so that is happening on the 7th March - next step is the hairdressers.  I wonder if I could go with my hair newly washed at home and just have it cut and blown to cut down time sat with my leg down?