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4pm 28th August: 6 inch scar revealed 10 days since the operation, with my arm in a cast, I returned to the Fracture Clinic for my first follow-up appointment. The statuesque painted blonde nurse...
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Repeat 3 times: me: Hello, my name is Wendy House. On Wednesday 29th August during my appointment at the fracture clinic the Dr told me that I would have my first physiotherapy session next week, which...
View Articleit’s just a twist to the right
12noon 7th September 18 days after surgery Jess walked me through my exercise regime – to be repeated once an hour for 15 minutes. That’s intense, almost no room to do anything else! Lie forearm on a...
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The UK provides “Statutory Sick Pay” SSP to provide people who are temporarily unemployed (up to 28 weeks per annum) due to ill health with an income – becuase employers are not required to pay them...
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(superciliousness warning) I’m one of the minority that voted in the Police commissioner elections. The Guardian reports the elections as having the worst turnout ever. It’s hardly surprising. Prior to...
View Articlewhite lines
This year I discovered that cars could legally park in-front of my driveway entrance. I discovered when a person on vacation in the USA left her car across my drive blocking my car in. I took the bus...
View ArticlePost it!
In the cold. Cold is stuff below 10°F I wandered out from my heated car, 30 paces, to the heated central post office in downtown Minneapolis. The post office has an amazing exterior. I’ll photograph...
View Article1949 Modernism in Minneapolis
Coincidences in the suburbs. Eliel Saarinen designed one of my favourite buildings, Helsinki central train station. One day I’ll ride the line from Helsinki to St Petersburg with a layover at Viipuri,...
View Articletesting, testing, 1, 2…
You know how much I LOVE driving. I bought myself that road trip, Route 66, in a red convertible as a 50th birthday present. State law requires people to secure a local driving licence within 60 days...
View ArticleGotham city (hall)
My brother renamed Minneapolis to Gotham city, as lightening danced across the black cloud encased sky. Gotham city. The city hall, with mayor, fire department, courts, CSI, District Attorneys and...
View ArticleForgetting to remember
To enrol for automatic payment of Wendy loft property taxes, I had to find the right website, print a form, find a pen to write on it, find an envelope to put it in, find a stamp to put on the...
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