Thursday am

Where to start.....I have been up early, since 4 am in fact.   Continue to be plagued with problems with my tv, so have had long session with the cable company.  The person who answered my call was doing her best but couldn't resolve the issues, so am waiting for a technician tomorrow afternoon.  Sigh.  I didn't specify a non smoker, I just hope I don't gag on stale nicotine when I open the door to him.

And I'm temporarily carless.   They don't have MOTs in this country (and I shudder at the state of some of the vehicles driving around, they are definitely not road worthy) but I think they are a good thing so took the car to Terry last week for the equivalent of an MOT, and there are some things he has put off replacing for as long as possible, but now really have to be done, and I took the car to him yesterday, Wednesday.  He expected to finish it in a day but someone sent him a wrong part, and although Wednesday evening/Thursday morning is the worst time to be without it, I didn't want to put him to the trouble of assembling it all so I could use it last night, I said I'd wait.

I made little chocolate chip cakes, and carrot cakes for last night's dessert at Emmanuel, and asked Beth if she would pick them up.  She offered to take me to the church as well for the meal, but I didn't want to bother.

Mark stopped by during the day.  Because Mary had hip surgery they put a grab thing on the side of their bath, and were so impressed with it they thought I could probably do with one as well.

I tried it out last night and it is indeed very helpful in pulling myself up.

And this morning Louise - bless her heart - needs to pick me up for Kiwanis.   I am going to the nice retirement home at lunchtime to talk about us having a Kiwanis bake sale there, so hope the car is going to be ready.