I must be getting old….

Yes I must Dear Reader, and it’s not just because police officers and doctors look young enough to be my sons! I had cause this afternoon to visit our local hospital for an x-Ray …on account of my painful hip as it happens. However you know the story …you have a painful hip and the GP arranges an x-Ray – two days before said x-ray, the pain subsides…. However I need to know what’s going on – am I falling to bits ?

There you go – I couldn’t have put it better…..

Anyway there I am walking through the hospital to the relevant department….never mind I nearly ended up in intensive care ( not as a result I hasten to add, of a terrible disease , rather I missed the relevant sign) …I arrive eventually where I’m supposed to be. There I’m met ( a loose description) rather I stand behind the reception desk where a receptionist ( I suppose) sits with two screens in front of her. I am so far invisible ….she looks from one screen to the next and back again. I’m still invisible ! Then just when I’m drifting away ( mentally you understand)……name? ……Who me? Jane …Date of Birth ….9.8.57 …….take a seat ! I’m eventually called and taken through – the battery fails in the x-Ray machine and had to be replaced ….whoever knew they had batteries . Anyway it’s now a waiting game for the result!

Once again I’d been out early for today’s walk- lucky as it happens because it was a beautiful morning, things went downhill after that !

You could be fooled into thinking there was a tunnel ahead …no it’s just trees!

We divert from the TPT onto the sidings…and then onto the infamous tunnel !

On the way back we climb up from the trail to Prosecco corner …

Yes you heard me correctly …Prosecco corner! This is somewhere myself and my two walking mates go to celebrate … out of sight of most others…..with bottle of the bubbly stuff and glasses ( probably plastic) and possibly nibbles !!!!

And we’re home – did I tell you the future King ( Charles III) and I have something in common….no, I probably didn’t ! Well we both talk to plants . Now I feel sure we do so differently, but still we do it! Take this camellia for example ….

This plant has been in two different places ( allegedly appropriate for camellias) and done nothing . So eventually I dug it out and just left it, waiting to throw it away at the local tip. “ If you’re not going to bother doing anything …stuff you, you’re out “ ……Time went by, and I looked at this plant on its side, roots akimbo …blow me, it had new growth . So “Right, this is your last chance , I’m going to put you in a pot ( yes, this is what I said to it) and see what you do . If you do nothing, you’re off..”

And as if by magic this camellia has more than forty buds on it …..I’ll let you into a secret , I don’t think it was my stern vocal approach that did it, I think it’s the position! Regardless, it’s very happy !,, and so am I!