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Doctors appointment

Wednesday is a doc’s appointment. Just need to run through some stuff. Been on 100mg/day azathioprine for almost two months while we dropped the prednisolone from 20 to 15mg/day start of April. Body can seem to go up and down, peaks and troughs, same with the mind, but the fluoxetine is trying to control that? Chest pains can happen at night and certainly the lower back (kidneys?) can give me some shit…

Under the brolly

The Rook in competion

Just a little article about Tuesday 8th April 2014.

The Rook 1

Venue is Bradford’s St Georges Hall.

The Rook 2

Event is the AMP Awards competition for the district.

The Rook performed three songs, absolutely brilliant and this is the order of playing;

And the winners were…

The Rook!

The Rook winners

Which means they are at the grand final in the August bank holiday weekend of Galtres Parklands Festival, Duncombe Park, Helmsley.

AMP grand final
This will be a fantastic weekend. Keep your eyes and ears well opened for one of the best bands to be arriving out of Yorkshire since, hmmm, in my opinion, well before the Artic Monkeys!

Is my Areca Palm dying?

After 10 months my Areca Palm has started to turn very dark green. Still has some nice silver green shoots but none are growing through. Is it ready for the spring and summer growing season? have I over watered it in the cold season? I have been advised to let the self watering pots completely empty and leave for a week or so? Here is how I am going to try and save this Areca Palm.

Areca palm dark green, almost going brown
It is difficult to notice but the right side shoots can be seen to be very dark.

Plant food
This food might help, I pushed three into the pot, erm, it might – hopefully, get massive with nice silver green shoots!?

Areca 2
Thing is, very tiny ‘gnats’ were hovering above the compost. These traps are suppose to catch them?

So, in a nutshell it’s going to be a waiting game with fingers crossed and lots of talking to my Areca Palm…

Bit of an update

Ok and tend to lapse sometimes? but erm, anyway. Just an update on the sarcoidosis side of things. Photos say it all…
Steroids failed
Yes the Prednisolone seems to have failed, even as high as 40mg/day. My body can not sustain that amount of chemical punishment. So, and as mentioned before, we are trying some Azathioprine, low dosage at 50mg/day, the idea is to drop the Pred and increase the Aza.

Appointment moved 2 jpg
Airedale hospital have been great, as per that photo they are bringing appointments forward. I have plenty to ask but the idea of organ rejection drugs makes sense, my body rejects my healthy organs, so lets try?

Prefer to be better.

How to make the best toasted sandwich

I was going to try keep this really as short as possible due to it being a post rather than page, but. Anyway, smoked bacon and cheese toasted sandwich made super simple with outstanding taste! Do read on, well, you better had or…

Smoked bacon 1
No need for an earlier photo, simply lay the smoked bacon on the bread, and double up those cheese slices.

Smoked bacon 2
Oh, usually we only ‘lube’ the outside of the bread, but this time I decided to butter both side’s, hmmm.

Smoked bacon 3
It ended up being so full the force required was hard work, especially after the use my left hand had been through that very day!

Smoked bacon 4
With my enhanced bass strength left hand it was quite easy, you were all thinking something else!? I’m right handed. And so I went to sit down on my backside shaped bed settee, well, the bed is tucked under and safe. Look, here is what I mean.

Bed settee.
Its really comfy, changed it around last week, loving the colours, just need a few more cushions, grapes and someone to feed me, prefer a lady but, I then heard lots of bubbling, that weren’t my insides! Damn what is that?

Smoked bacon 5
I fell upwards off my settee and through the steam and horrendous sounds of cheese in agony I noticed an orange come yellow substance pouring out of my toasted sandwich machine. It brought memories of ‘The Blob.’

Smoked bacon 6
It still had not stopped cooking, what do I do, erm, sod it…

Smoked bacon 7
Yes let the fucker finish cooking, gorgeous smells – bring on scratch and sniff phones. Oh, its hot, so was/is perfect body Marilyn Monroe ‘Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Mr president’ I mean come on – did they? Oh, cooking. Chuck the sandwich onto a half wiped plate. Keep some bugs, they are good for us. Where am I, damn…

Smoked bacon 8
After putting a little mayonnaise on the ‘dish’ and a towel folded over your arm, make your way back to that settee.

Smoked bacon 9
Using a little mayonnaise slop it onto the bacon and cheese toasted sandwich, force that huge fork full into your mouth, savour it, hold on, savour it, chew a little more and send it down the hatch, brrrr…

Smoked bacon 10
As tempting as it looks, smells, and seems, erm, and tastes, do not lick the kitchen top, clean it when its gone hard. Can you see the smile???

How to make a very easy wind farm

Nothing really needs to be mentioned about this, the photo say’s it all? especially those tins with sausages!
Windfarm
Oh, they are also stacked at the rear…!

Know the correct time to wash up

It has been asked many times how I do so well in keeping my bills down? First of all, I joined The utility Warehouse and then actually joined the Utility Warehouse ‘family’ erm, though I have not managed to get anyone to join, yet. OK, maybe I might not be a salesman, but I know how to keep my bills low! Please follow this step by step guide on one of the ways to help keep your bills low – er! Check those banners on the erm, left!

Washing up 1
First of all, you need to make sure enough pretty naughty, er, dirty stuff has built up. In this case I had plenty of room on the kitchen top’s but ran out of plates, pans, pots, and the rest, otherwise…

I didn’t show the sink hole filling up, that could have been dangerous.

Washing up 2
I start with glass, then the sharp hunting equipment, followed by cups, small pottery, leading to bigger pottery with hard on shapes positioned on top.

Washing up 3
So, it really doesn’t mean shove everything where they might balance, its actually important to make sure everything can really fit into one. Where possible, and nice and easy, get it all up on top.

Washing up 2
As you slowly start to withdraw in the correct order, do take much care not to pull off anything underneath? Erm, what do you mean this looks like the building up to it photo, huh…

Washing up 4
As with most ‘clean’ folks, do ensure everything has been cleaned and wiped afterwards, this is essential due to potential spreading of, erm, still thinking.

Washing up 5
Erm yes, sink hole problems. Thank you for your time in viewing this very important arsticle.

Me, myself and I

January of this 2014, what a strange month. Just need to say I am far from perfect, the bullying article left me feeling quite guilty, really unsure why, I have changed and removed some of the content as I certainly do not wish any distress on most folks.
Thug...
Me, myself and I.

Bit of a leakage

Since moving into my ‘flat’ in December 2010, its been quite good. Though recently I spotted what looks like damp. But today the housing association plumber called, he spotted the ceiling, hmmm. I missed that! It seems the outside rainwater drain does overflow, with water running down the wall we could see a stone has a huge crack, potentially the water could come through from it as that is just above my ceiling. I hope they repair it ASAP, I don’t want any damp, especially with my lungs!

Leak 1

Leak 2

Forgiveness

It most certainly has been a mixture of emotions this week. Some buried memories returned, wrote about some of them, hyper and very low moods, very perplexed. The thought is the heading. I have many issues that can be forgiven, should I forgive? That’s something that needs some thinking about. Like the photo, its a low cloud that looks like we can just touch it, is it out of reach, or is it what we really see?

Its all a big mistery.