First two outings

 Well, still no phone call, I'm not worrying about it, I'm assuming there's a good reason for why the nurse hasn't rung yet.  Husband though has been going on and on about it, odd for someone who thinks the nurse told him that he doesn't have dementia.  Thank you for all the comments saying it's unlikely the nurse did tell him that, I would have thought that in the event she did actually come to that conclusion very quickly, she would have made a point of telling us both, rather than making a casual throwaway comment that only he heard.  I think it's more likely that husband misheard her say something and his disorganised brain made it into something else - he does this quite frequently and is always adamant that he's right.  We'll find out soon enough, I'm sure.

I'm having 2 outings by myself this week - well, husband is dropping me off in both instances, but it means I'll have browsing time by myself.  This afternoon he has a dental appointment (yet another tooth to be extracted) in Bridgwater, he'll drop me off at the retail park very close by.  There are a couple of shops I particularly want to look in, a big B&M (there isn't one here) and the big charity shop that does a huge range of second hand books.  If there's time I'll have a coffee in one of the coffee shops there.  

Husband has been complaining about his backache for some weeks now, he just complains without actually doing anything to help himself, except for taking painkillers 4x daily and sitting in his recliner chair saying he can't do anything as it's too painful (just sitting there for hours at a time is only adding to his backache, I've told him that the advice nowadays is to keep moving....as usual he doesn't listen to me).  I finally got fed up with him constantly moaning and told him to go and see either a physiotherapist or osteopath, I even found one for him and booked an appointment.  That's tomorrow afternoon in town, once again I'll get him to drop me off so I can have a nice wander around the shops.  I have a piece of favourite jewellery that needs a minor repair, so will go into the jewellers to get that done as well.  And there'll definitely be time for a coffee stop.

So that's a good start to my doing things independently of husband - 2 shopping, browsing and coffee trips in one week.

Husband actually mentioned our wedding anniversary this morning - it's our 43rd later this month.  He suggested we go to a local pub for dinner.....which was nice of him, if something of a surprise.  I'm not really keen on pubs though, especially in the evenings, I'd rather go for lunch to one of the many nice tea rooms we're discovering.  There's another one I've found, not far away on Exmoor in a little village that has a river running through it, very close to the tea room itself.  I've shown it to husband, it has excellent reviews, he likes the idea of their homemade pasties and cream teas with apparently very large scones, so we'll go there.