All good

 I went for my diabetes review this morning - it was 6 months overdue actually, as the last one fell due as we were in the throes of moving house, and packing up/unpacking and getting settled here was obviously much more important.  I have had a couple of reminders, but just haven't got round to it until now.  Anyway, all is fine, my HbA1c (blood glucose level) has gone down into acceptable levels, and my weight has dropped 10lbs since I was last weighed.  All my other bloods results were also fine, so the nurse was happy.  My cholesterol has gone up very slightly, I was again offered statins and again declined.

My painful shoulder is also less painful and more manoeuvrable, the cold packs must have lessened the inflammation and the exercises (erm, when I remember to do them) must be helping.  So if and when I finally get the physio referral from the hospital, I may not need to go by then.

Both husband and I forgot to collect our monthly repeat prescription meds from the GP this morning - I wouldn't expect husband to remember, but I should have done!  Never mind, we'll have to pop out and get them tomorrow, it's not like the surgery is miles away.

It's a nice day today, I've been in the garden and done some weeding and dead-heading.  I was having a good look around the garden and noting which plants haven't done very well....e.g. the everlasting sweetpea just isn't growing, it seems to have come to a halt at about a foot high.  The replacement lupin I bought is also now struggling, having had one really lovely flowering spike, the next 2 seem to be dying off without the buds opening.  The hostas all struggled initially and are only now getting going - a couple have had one flower spike before even the leaves have really started to fill out.  All of our tomato plants are being extremely slow, some are flowering but with relatively few flowers actually, none have fruit as yet.  Cherie, you described one of yours as having an extremely thick and odd-looking stem - well, so has one of ours, one of the seeds you sent us, the leaves are also curling up.  We bought 6 new strawberry plants in early Spring, 2 each of 3 varieties - none fruited at all, although the plants look healthy and are sending out runners.  Perhaps they'll do better next year.  The mini cucumbers, courgettes (green and yellow) and carrots are all doing very well, we're picking them almost daily.  We'll probably be emptying one of the potato bags at the weekend, none of them have flowered but neither have our neighbour's and he's just harvested some of his, they've produced quite a lot without flowering.  So it's a bit of a mixed bag in the garden - some good successes, some failures.  Probably to do with the very inconsistent weather.

We only have 2 appointments on the calendar for next week, and the weather looks as though it's improving, so we may be able to go off to the caravan for a few days at the end of next week.