Morning you all you dripping wet flowers,
Corr-Clair - What??!! No Baby YET!! You’re poor daughter. Hope you’re having a lovely day off. No Clair, I’m NOT a jet setter at all. I haven’t been abroad since 2003, hence part of my saying I had a lot of missed time, and life (!!) to make up for. And that last hol happened to be to Venice, for 4 nights, 5 days. End of March. Much quieter for sightseeing, plus we were walking around in our T-shirts. My first visit had been on a day trip from Garda, in July. Chokka block full of other day trippers and very hot. But I instantly fell in love with it, and promised myself to go back for a long break, to be able to really explore it and see if without millions of people. I literally glaze over (I’ am now) thinking and talking about it. Mind you, anywhere I’ve been to in Italy, so far, does the same to me. You can have Paris. It isn’t a patch. Venice is the most beautiful city, surrounded by water, which makes it so unique and so picturesque with it’s numerous islands in view, packed full of wonderful buildings, culture, art. And. . . . yes yes, YES, it IS incredibly romantic. When you fly there, you pass over it low, so get an aeriel view, even to begin with. Then, you have to take a boat from the airport, and a book I’d bought advised you to take a WaterBus, not WaterTaxi, The Bus, takes you all around some of the lagoon islands, dropping off passengers. So you get to have a look at those too - Murano, Burano etc. Then you start to see the finger of the Campanile tower of St Marks, miles away in the distance. And it all slowly looms into sight. It reeeeally IS quite magical to approach it that way, if ever you go.
See what you’ve done - I’m back there, in my head.
I’ll only be going if I can get the same’ish deal (£179 for 3 nights!! - that’s bloomin peanuts as it’s usually v. expensive ) as that lady I stood talking to in Tescoe’s for 1/2 hr. Can’t remember her name now, I speak to that many people. Was giving her allsorts of tips - about the water bus not taxi, don’t listen to anyone who says don’t go on a Gondola because it’s a rip off - just DO IT, you can’t go to Venice and not. It’s worth every penny of the rip off. She and her husband moved to Macc a year ago, from near where I lived in N. Manchester and live on a large canal boat. She’s invited to me go have glass of vino - such a lovely woman. So I shall. It’s a very pleasant walk along the canal to where it’s moored, about 1/2 an hour, directly from my door. But she also said, if I did find the same deal, or a simlar deal, but not at the same hotel, to go and seek her and her 3 girlfriends out at the Danielli, to join them. Awww, nice or what.
Am still car hunting. Have this hire car till Wednesday, so ideally need to sort alternative replacement this week. The GP and I think my scatterd dull mobile head pains may be Temporal Arteritis, so I’m to have another blood test. Plus he was resistant to refer me to the hospital I asked to be, that has a specialist hand unit, as recommended by my X neighbour Physio, Julie, who’s head of Physio Dept at the Manchester Metropolitan Uni, so she knows her oats - is that the right word for that phrase. And instead has referred me to the Musculo-Skeletal attached to the medical practice, who misdiagnosed my hand condition in the first place, so I’m not wholly happy about, but it may be a different person I have this time. I don’t know why I don’t stand my ground more, because it all ends up taking more time to get properly sorted in the end. Need to stand up for myself more sometimes, be a bit more insistent.
Helena - How are you today flower? You okay?? Frustrated by the weather for your gardening, no doubt.
Lesley - how’s your ankle doing? Is it sore and swollen?
SnottyLilly and Festering-Beth - Sorry girls :smileywink: How are you both today - less snotty and less festering I hope.
Sue - How’s you? You haven’t been on for a good while now. Hope you’re doing okay lovey.
I just remembered in time, early this morning, to send a birthday card to someone who’s a 29th Feb babe. Think we worked out she was 52yrs -:- 4 leap yr b’days, so is only 13 really!!
Sorry I’ve wittered your ears off with another long post.
Hope everyone else is also feeling better today.
Love to all of you
DellyDingaling xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
unless I get time off.