Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[curiouswombat]

Hmm - well life, anyway.

The good -

• work has been busy, but in a good way. I've been teaching and it tires me out - I have nothing but admiration for those of you who do it full-time.
• S2C and I went out for a very good dinner last night - and then met D-d to go to see comedian Milton Jones.  The tickets were her birthday present to her Dad - and were an excellent gift as we all enjoyed him very much.  Although there was a woman behind us who could have got employment as a one-person laughter track for TV sitcoms...
• I have been busy wrapping shoe-boxes to send Christmas gifts to the children of the Chernobyl area, where life is still blighted by the events of 26th April 1986 - no, not our wedding, the other events of that day!

The bad -

• Those of you who are friends of S2C will know that he went to the opticians for his routine check-up yesterday, knowing his sight was getting worse, and that he would doubtless need new glasses, only to be told that the deterioration in his right eye was so great since last time that the optician is very worried about it and wants to do more tests.  As S2C's eyesight has always been very poor (both D-d and I are used to cries for help if he puts his glasses down somewhere and then they fall, or he moves a little - without them he cannot see anything), then deterioration that worries our optician worries us too.
• The weather this summer has been so bad that the turnip harvest has failed at the 'folk village' of Cregneash - children who would usual attend the fun-days making traditional turnip lanterns for 31st October (hop-tu-naa to us), are being told to bring their own turnip if they can find one... or any other large root vegetable they might be able to hollow out!  Can you imagine a spooky lantern made out of a carrot?
• I almost didn't get home from work tonight as so many of the roads between Douglas and Peel were flooded - and I'd got stuck on the Peel side of the floods.  But I did - so perhaps this belongs in 'Good'!

The ugly -

• The guy who was the support act last night.  Well not so much down right ugly, as really not very good.  Really, really, not very good.  He was called Hal Cruttenden - avoid him if you can, I think.

Comments

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

That is worrisome about S2C's eyes... let's hope it's just the odd sudden deterioration and nothing more serious.

I can't say that I've ever heard of Hal Cruttenden but I'll try to avoid him if I see him on TV. I'm glad the main comedian was good.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Eye problems are scary. I hope it's all ok.

Turnip lanterns...I'd love to see those. Carrots are too skinny! Would large potatoes do?

It sounds like you're getting massive rains!

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor S2C... I shall be keeping him in my thoughts!

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping everything crossable crossed the sudden deterioration of S2C's eyes, will prove to be easy to halt. I'm sure it will be.

I really glad you had such fun last night. It was a wonderful birthday present.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned to S2C, they can do a great deal with lasers and medications these days.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

My fingers are crossed for SC2. I know how scary this must be. And it's too bad I can't mail you a whole passel of pumpkins for the children to carve. I confess I've never heard of carving a turnip-o-lantern.

[kathyh]

I hope S2C's eye problems are something easily treatable. They can do a lot more to help now than they used to be able to. A friend of mine had a quite serious problem but with treatment it's stabilised and she can still both read and drive.

A spooky carrot lantern doesn't have quite the same ring to it!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Oof. Eyes are so very precious. Best to S2C and fingers crossed.

Envious of Milton Jones, but not of your soggy summer. Wet here too of course, but nothing like as bad as more northerly and westerly parts.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

knowing his sight was getting worse, and that he would doubtless need new glasses, only to be told that the deterioration in his right eye was so great since last time that the optician is very worried about it and wants to do more tests.

I will keep my fingers crossed for both of you.

You are talking about my personal nightmare--vision loss. Now I have glaucoma (they have promised me surgery in a year, which will temporarily improve my eyesight). I also have the beginnings of macular degeneration, which is hereditary and at this point incurable. I keep hoping I will not go blind before they find a treatment for that. Meanwhile for the zoom feature on computers and for Kindle books! Imagine the trouble I would have already if we did not have those tools. I can still read regular books, but it is annoying and not much fun.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

As a glasses-wearer from waaay back I have a lot of sympathy for poor S2C. Scary! Hopefully they'll be able to figure out what the problem is and get things resolved!

Trying to visualize alternative hop-tu-naas. That would have to be one wopper of a carrot!

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

Keeping my fingers crossed for S2C.

My local ASDA's are having a pumpkin event - in reality they bought in too many pumpkins and are having to sell them off cheap. Not many people around here carve pumpkins and probably even less use them for food.

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I saw S2Cs post about his eyes. I hope there might be something that can be done to improve his eyesight. They can do some amazing surgery these days! *fingers crossed*

Teaching is tiring isn't it! I hadn't realised myself until I stopped doing it :)

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I truly hope there will be no more deterioration. *hugs*

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the vision problems ... I hope the tests reveal something that they can fix, or at least stabilize.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Having attended a concert and a comedian's show recently, I've decided that if I were Queen of the Universe, I'd outlaw warm-up acts.

My thoughts are with your husband's eyes (that sounds odd, I know). I've been having difficulties with mine, and my ophthalmologist up and died on me. Poor man. Definitely unexpected, and he hadn't made plans for a transition. All his staff were just out of work, as it is too expensive for new doctors to buy a practice outright. I'm going to have to break in a new doctor, and I'm very loathe to do so. We only have two in town, and I don't like one, so I better like the other!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

I knew about S2C's eye issues from his LJ post form a few days ago. I echo all the concern that others have shown.

[ukamikanasi.livejournal.com]

I hope S2C's eyes are okay! My eyes are pretty messed up, so I can sympathize.

My birthday is also on 4/26 (but I wasn't born in 1986.) :D

[shirebound]

Oh gosh, good luck with all that flooding! Stay safe. And my best wishes to S2C; vision loss must be incredibly frightening.

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

then deterioration that worries our optician worries us too.

That does sound worrisome. Fingers crossed it turns out to be not so problematic, after all.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

http://www.powells.com/blog/guests/wombat-poop-fudge-by-michael-hearst/

I wouldn't have taken a second look if it hadn't been for you. I learned something--wombats poop cubes!

[myrhiann.livejournal.com]

I do hope the optical tests will produce a solution, and that the eye is curable.

My aunt and uncle's wedding anniversary was for ever memorable, as the announcement that Britain was at war with Germany was made on that day.