I am still alive.

Hello folks.

They say “Time flies when your having fun”. I would say time flies full-stop.

It seems an age since I actually sat down a wrote on my blog, so I apologise if you have been popping in and not seeing anything new. I will smack myself on the wrist once I have finished this posting.

Well what a time it has been since we arrived home to our mooring. I have been a busy little bee in the gardens. The Arms gardens needed some TLC when I got back, because they had not been touched in the two and a half months. I will leave you to imagine how huge the weeds were. I did a quick tidy up ready for the Warwick Open Gardens event, which the Arm took part in. We had over 20 people come through, which was fantastic. I really enjoyed nattering to visitors, many of them had never been into the Arm before, so they were very welcome and hopefully they will come back again.

Gardens up together, I had to give in and go and see our nurse practitioner at the doctors surgery, because I had been suffering from a feeling of something stuck under my ribcage and a painful Sternum, with a metallic taste in my mouth. I was given some Omeprazole to take for a month. I took it for two weeks, but things were getting worse, so I went and say my GP, who sent me off for an Ultrasound, as he thought I may have Gallstones. Within a week I had my Ultrasound and it showed no Gallstones, which was a disappointment in one way, because it would have been easy to sort that. I was told my GP would contact me in about a week with the results, but he rang me the day after my Ultrasound. He has no put me in for an Endoscopy to see if that offers up any clues to what is going on with me. I would not be surprised to find I have a Hiatus Hernia, but we shall see. It has been two and a half weeks and no appointment yet, so I keep taking the tablets and wait. But whilst I wait I am keeping busy.

September we have our Heritage Weekend and so I have been giving some support  to the Arm’s administrator, as she arranges everything. So far the craft stalls and other stalls are all booked. Music is in hand as is food and beer. We also have a model boaters coming back along with a reptile lady, who is bringing a skunk this time as well. It is going to be an amazing weekend on the 12th and 13th September. I am also having a stall, so busy making things for that.

Keith has been having more problems with his teeth. He went to see our dentist and was told he had an infection under a tooth, so was given antibiotics and they took an x-ray. On his return to the dentist, he was told the tooth was dead and so he needed either a root canal filling or an extraction. But and yes there is a big BUT they could not do it, because it was difficult to get to, so he would have to wait for an appointment to go to the Birmingham Dental Hospital. The last time they wanted him to go there for a different problem, the appointment never arrived. So you can understand how we both felt about this conclusion. What I could not understand was why could they not do the treatment, after all they are dentists. So having chatted about it, we sort a second opinion. Keith went off to see another dentist this morning and they did an x-ray and got the answer there and then, instead of having to wait. Yes the tooth is dead, ok so the other dentist got that bit right. But there is a huge infection under the tooth and a root canal will not work, so they got that bit wrong then duh. So the tooth has to come out, which is being done tomorrow. Not only that our new dentist is going to do the work. They cannot understand why the other dentist would not do the work and actually asked Keith if he wanted to put in a complaint. As of tomorrow I will be going to the new dentist as well.

The Arm has been buzzing with boats of late. It has been very busy today, with five boats coming in at once. We are full at the moment if boaters want bankside moorings, so it is breasting up room only, which is fantastic, because we welcome visiting boaters warmly. The Arm has some new residence which I will photograph tomorrow, so you will have to come back tomorrow and see their photographs.