Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Wood Pigeons and Ear Candles

We went out for an anniversary dinner on Friday, since I was in Newcastle on the actual day. We went to a very posh restaurant (we like to be good to ourselves) and it was a lovely meal. The menu was a bit strange for my liking though - for example - "Perthshire wood pigeon". Now the main problem I have with this dish is the fact I have a wood pigeon in the garden called Percy. He likes to come daily for a bath and Seb loves to chase him. It's a love hate relationship. Anyway, based on this fact alone I could never eat wood pigeon. But to make matters worse they told me the pigeon was from Perthshire. Now I have a mental image of the pigeon growing up on the streets of Perthsire, perhaps having a family there and raising baby pigeons of his own. Now I definately couldn't order that dish! I had steak. I like to play safe.

I met some work friends on Saturday for lunch and it was lovely to catch up and have a good gossip. It's so nice being able to make plans like that and know that I will be well enough to go along and enjoy myself :-) The rest of the weekend was fairly quiet - we went to mum and dads on Sunday for dinner and yesterday we took Seb up to the country park. My foot has been much better and I have been taking Seb short walks for the past week, so thought it was time to try out something a little further afield. I got on ok, and Seb loved it, having not been for several weeks. The foot has been fine today so there doesn't seem to be any repercussions from my exertions. Hopefully this means the high heeled shoes will be ok for all my wedding ;-)

Tomorrow I have my ENT appointment, so hopefully they will have something to suggest. In the meantime I am trying out Hopi ear candling next week. Andrews mum had heard that it was very good for sinus problems so I am going to give it a go. Anything is worth a try and it can't do me any harm. Unless they burn my ears of course...

4 comments:

Mc Clarey said...

Good luck tommrow!!

It was my mum and step dads anniversary yesterday, and I insisted on tagging along to the chinease with them and ate my entire body weight in chinease buffet !

Anonymous said...

Hi, Jacqueline
Glad to hear your foot is on the mend. Sounds as if you had a lovely meal on Friday night. I'm with you on the wood pigeon! Much too cute to eat! I hope the Hopi candles work, it's worth a try. I am trying to get John to give it a go, I even offered to do it for him as a friend at work gave me a candle (ferocious looking thing!!) I wasn't sure which end went in your ear and couldn't understand how you could put a naked flame in your ear! I think he will leave it to the experts! As you say its worth a try. Take care
lol Anne John and Ross
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Kelly said...

I think that you will be going back to work for a rest - you sure are packing plenty in to the week!

Hope the ENT appointment was useful. Somehow suspect they won't be offering you Hopi ear candles as part of their treatment package to sort those naughty sinuses out...

K xx

RoseGirl said...

Glad you got to get out a bit for your anniversary!

Hoping that the ENT appt. provides some answers and relief for you...

Blessings,

Amy
Southern CA
USA
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