Windy.

This morning I was up and out of the house by 9.00 to walk up to the hospital for a dental appointment at 9.30. At least that's when I thought it was. It was only after I had sat for an hour and made further enquires at the desk that I found out my appointment was for 10.15. Completely my fault for misreading the letter they had sent when the last appointment was cancelled due to the snow. The cancelled appointment had been at 9.30 and the new one at 10.15. After all that when I got in to see the dental specialist there was no treatment for the pocket in my gum.  My regular dentist had suggested that the gum could be cut and stitched but not according to the hospital guy. He did check my previous x-rays to make sure there was nothing going on with my teeth and jaw but they were all clear. I just have to take extra care cleaning my teeth and continue to use the water-pick.

If nothing else it was a nice morning for a walk. The route to the hospital skirts the edge of town and it almost felt like walking in the country lanes again. 

A cold wind has been blowing all day with quite a lot of sun in the afternoon. I got out the mower to do the front lawn and my section of the communal grass after which my neighbour borrowed the mower to do her bit. I then went around the edges of my lawn with a pair of garden scissors (the shears have gone blunt again). At the same time I also dug up some of the many dandelions in the lawn.  The lawn is full of all sorts of different plants which I shan't attempt to remove but the dandelions leave big bare patches. Doing the lawn edges gave me the chance to remove any weeds in the flower beds. I feel that at last I'm getting somewhere with the millions of weed seedlings that popped up everywhere.

After all the gardening I needed to stop and as the sun was shining I found myself a fairly sheltered spot in the garden to read and have a cup of tea. Peter had been at a history society meeting but returned in time to join me outside for a while. He's been trying to ring to make a doctor's appointment as he'd sure that he's got a piece of cartilage floating around in his knee. He gave the hospital a call the other day to see how long he'd have to wait for the cataract clinic only to find that his name wasn't on the list at all despite being told it would be. Now he has to see his doctor (appointment in May) to get a referral and start the process all over again.