More waiting and patience required

 The new list of available housing is out today, I've already looked and there's just one suitable property, for which I've put in a bid.  It's a very pretty cul de sac, in a suitable area, but there's no individual parking and only 3 parking spaces to serve 6 bungalows, so that may be a problem.  It looks as though the garden is tiny too, which isn't great.  But if we're offered it, we will at least go and have a look.  Last week there were 3 suitable properties, all of which I bid for, so another wait to hear.  Husband is getting increasingly frustrated over the waiting times, he keeps asking me if there's anything we can do to speed things up....the short answer is no, nothing.  We just have to be patient.  Same goes for hearing from the psychologist.

I did next to nothing yesterday as my back and left hip are really painful at the moment - have been since husband's memory assessment last week, sitting in a hard upright chair at a table for 2.5 hours made my back and hips really sore and they've not yet recovered.  I sorted a washload out, went and had my hair cut (hairdresser lives just 2 doors away, fortunately), did some menu plans and cooked dinner, and that was about it.  I've got to go for an eye examination this morning, I have a minor problem with my right eye - well, I hope it's minor.  At the moment I'm half blind, half deaf and partly crippled, so am feeling pretty useless.  But that's life, there are millions of people worse off.  Keeping busy will help to take my mind off the pain.....this is what I tell husband too, he needs to find things to do to occupy himself, rather than just sitting brooding.

The blimmin opticians sent me an email yesterday morning, and a text about half an hour later, and then followed that up with a phone call in the afternoon, all reminding me about the appointment this morning.  Talk about overkill.  I guess they must have had loads of no shows.

The forecast is for a mixture of sun and showers with fairly gusty winds pretty much every day for the next week, so putting washing out will be a bit hit and miss.