Thursday 5th January 12

I found, much to my annoyance and dismay, that our home phone is not working properly… well, at all!  The buttons when pressed don’t register the number on the screen with a bleep immediately, making me think that press hadn’t made contact… so I pressed it again and thus got the wrong number on the screen… and then when I pressed ‘call’ it just wouldn’t, and finally when I tried to ring it from my mobile the base station rang but the handset didn’t.  Very annoying.  I do hope we don’t have to buy another phone.

Gill went to the hospital to see why her right elbow was hurting so much, after her tumble.  She came back late lunchtime having had an X-ray, which revealed she has chipped her ulna and burst a synovial bursa.

I needed to make some phone calls and did a couple with my mobile but not those which I had to wait for a long time in a queue… and the lovely Maria round the corner came to my rescue, saying I could come and use hers, mainly for the call I had to make to Yell to deal with a problem with a recent invoice.  I’d already called with my mobile and the 0800 number, which is free from a landline, is not free on a mobile, so I wasn’t happy to just wait for 10 minutes and pay I don’t know what… so thank you to Maria for letting me do that call from her house.  I also got through to the chap at the Council who the compensation form went to, and he asked us to put Gill’s new medical diagnosis in writing and send it to him.

Late in the afternoon I had a bath… washed hair as I was due to perform in Leeds, an event hosted by Leeds Green Drinks, called Yorkshire Green Laughs. 

This was a successful event, doing my balloon show plus banter.  I got some positive feedback. 

2012-11-26 23:45:20

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