shewhomust (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shewhomust) wrote2008-11-25 09:06 pm
shewhomust) wrote2008-11-25 09:06 pm
Busy day
Things accomplished, things enjoyed.
Went swimming. Got flu jab, and delivered request for repeat prescription to GP. I have a regular appointment with my GP every six months. At each session she gives me a prescription for pills to be taken daily until we next meet - and the prescription is always for three packs of 28-days supply. Having to check in for a repeat prescription midway between appointments - OK, I can see that's a safety device. But having to ask for a further repeat a couple of weeks before my appointment riles me. Surely the NHS has noticed that we do not operate on a lunar month, and that the calendar month averages more than 28 days?
Met Gail at the Lit & Phil, and went to a lecture / presentation of the book An Alarming Incident - which was interesting, though not quite what either of us had expected. It was about a form of engraved glassware common in the north east from about 1850 until 1916, cheap glasses engraved with the date of some memorable event: "Hartley Colliery Disaster Jany 16 1862 204 lives were lost" for example. Not all commemorate disasters, but that is the name that has stuck - they are known as "disaster glasses" What little I know about them, I know because my father (who had a truly Gothic taste for death and disaster) had a small collection, but I was hoping to learn more. Leafing now through the book (why, yes, I bought a book. Of course.) I think that it does talk about the glassware itself, but the lecture used the glasses as a starting point to look at the events commemorated, and through them at different aspects of local history. Which was a little frustrating.
We lunched at Wagamama, where the waitress unnerved me a little by telling me that I had chosen their spiciest dish, and was I happy with that choice? I held my nerve, and while it was quite hot, it wasn't any hotter than you'd expect if you read the list of ingredients on the menu and saw that it included chili. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
And what with coffee, and TK Maxx (I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did buy some socks), and the continental market (sour cherries! now I can make![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrissa's Wild Rice Pudding With Sour Cherries!), that was the afternoon gone. And now the evening seems to have drifted away too...
Went swimming. Got flu jab, and delivered request for repeat prescription to GP. I have a regular appointment with my GP every six months. At each session she gives me a prescription for pills to be taken daily until we next meet - and the prescription is always for three packs of 28-days supply. Having to check in for a repeat prescription midway between appointments - OK, I can see that's a safety device. But having to ask for a further repeat a couple of weeks before my appointment riles me. Surely the NHS has noticed that we do not operate on a lunar month, and that the calendar month averages more than 28 days?
Met Gail at the Lit & Phil, and went to a lecture / presentation of the book An Alarming Incident - which was interesting, though not quite what either of us had expected. It was about a form of engraved glassware common in the north east from about 1850 until 1916, cheap glasses engraved with the date of some memorable event: "Hartley Colliery Disaster Jany 16 1862 204 lives were lost" for example. Not all commemorate disasters, but that is the name that has stuck - they are known as "disaster glasses" What little I know about them, I know because my father (who had a truly Gothic taste for death and disaster) had a small collection, but I was hoping to learn more. Leafing now through the book (why, yes, I bought a book. Of course.) I think that it does talk about the glassware itself, but the lecture used the glasses as a starting point to look at the events commemorated, and through them at different aspects of local history. Which was a little frustrating.
We lunched at Wagamama, where the waitress unnerved me a little by telling me that I had chosen their spiciest dish, and was I happy with that choice? I held my nerve, and while it was quite hot, it wasn't any hotter than you'd expect if you read the list of ingredients on the menu and saw that it included chili. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
And what with coffee, and TK Maxx (I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did buy some socks), and the continental market (sour cherries! now I can make
mrissa's Wild Rice Pudding With Sour Cherries!), that was the afternoon gone. And now the evening seems to have drifted away too...
no subject
You went to Wagamama? Where is there a Wagamama?
no subject
Wagamama is in Eldon Square (on the square itself).
no subject
I am so going to make the rice pudding when I can find some sour cherries. I also need to find a nutmeg mill of sorts - Sainsbury's used to do little disposable ones filled with nutmeg chips that meant you could grate nutmeg without grating your fingers. But alas no more.