T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Dad’s been on the waiting list for new knees for a while, the op was scheduled for August.  He got a call aparently the other day and so off he went late Thursday for op 1 on Friday!  Great things these cancellations   Just spoke to mum and he’s already up and walking but in a splint for now until the physio-terrorist can get hold of him on Monday.  All of which explains why she didn’t return my calls on Thursday then!

we went out to celebrate duke’s niece’s 18th birthday this lunchtime expecting to be payig for the meal ourselves (as is the norm in Duke’s family) but Duke’s sister footed the bill, the meal was really very good (it’s not a pub we’ve been to before adn you always wonder how good it will be don’t you….) adn of course it was SMOKE FREE!  it was rather pleasant.  Then, to top my loverly day… Aprilia went home with one of her cousins to play for the afternoon adn was delivered back to me suitably worn out at 7pm giving me several hours to study.

Duke had an "interview" on Tuesday to do the home from hospital work that the private ambi company was doing but for the Red Cross (who do actually pay up rather than giving out rubber cheques  although not always on time!)  It’s a fixed salary rather than pay per job and the contract runs until Christmas.  He’s keeping his day job as there are no assurances of it being permanent but it means that for hte next 6 months our income will be double what it is now.

Add that to having fianlly sorted out closing both endowments and replacing them with much cheaper life ins making us better off by the surrender values of the policies plus about £50 a month that was going into them and things are looking really quite dandy.

Then I got a letter this morning from Powergen.  We are in credit by a little over £400 as I keep forgetting to adjust our payments down after clearing the huge debt we ran up between me using the tumble dryer too much, Duke thinking that turning hte heating up rather than putting a jumper on was a good idea (and I mean up to 25C on the hallway thermostat which turned the bedrooms into ovens!!)  adn no one knowing what off switches were for.  So they are going to refund me and adjust the payments!

And the sun is shining!  I have washing on the line not round the house!  

And I had a good gossip with Harley on the phone yesterday adn he actually sounds like himself again after goodness knows how long of sounding like Victor Meldrew in a bad mood.

Life is good for a change!