Hello, Peeps!

It's been a while. No excuses, really...I have just been in garden-pottering mode. The house is now back in "de-clutter or else" mode. (The garden's looking...like a garden)

After a grovelling apology from the electrician after "I'll come back in the new year and finish off", he has done some of it and should be back on Tuesday to finish off the work on the build. It's all daft little things like removing a dead cable and putting covers on the extractors from the bathrooms. He is also going to move the electric meters down to a more accessible height. I really hope he is also going to connect the power to the annexe at long last, so I can actually get on and do stuff in there.

I managed to haul the 2 beds out of the annexe and dispose of them last month. My back's not been the same since! I have so much stuff in there to find some containment for - containment of the furniture type. It's one of those little conundrums that life throws at you: need to get it into proper storage, but can't get stuff in to sort it out until it's all been sorted! Hey ho. Had mice in there too.
The annexe needs some structural work, but funds are depleting, so it may have to wait. I still have to get a gate made for the garden. It's in hand, but the joiner's busy on building projects elsewhere just now.

Talk of thyroid isssues reminds me of my sister in law who, after years of putting her mood swings, lethargy and weight gain down to the menopause has found that she actually has Hashimoto's Disease, where her immune system is actually destroying her thyroid. She will need gradually increasing doses of medication. However, she is now a different person, with more energy, and much more tolerant (doing a Master's in Psychology has helped too, methinks). She has also looked at her diet (she used to be a dietician when she was young) and by making some adjustments has lost about 3 stone. She has played badminton all through this, surprisingly, but has a dodgy hip joint (not arthritis - the joint isn't quite smooth)and is awaiting surgery, I think, to sort it out, as it affects her when she does a lot of walking. It took her a long time to get that diagnosed, and eventually was picked up on an MRI scan. Her being a doctor's wife enabled her to argue the case very forcefully and get one. You don't mess with my sister in law!
My eyebrows have vanished on the outer edges, but I as far as I know my thyroid is fine. They take blood every year for my annual check, so I assume they test that among other stuff - my last docs used to.

(The cat's is overactive...)

The sun is out, but it's going to be a background chill. It's a public holiday weekend, so I am going to trawl about and see what's on. If not, it's going to have to be a foray into the annexe...

Andrea