Courage

People have said I am brave to have 16 eye injections but it is easy to be brave when there is no alternative.  There have recently been what I call real instances of courage.  The first on Remembrance Sunday when the Queen laid her wreath.  She stood alone in front of the cenotaph with her head bent despite talk of an attempt on her life determined to do her duty.  As she lead the Royal family back through the door of the Home Office (a door which I went through hundreds of times during the war) there was a spontaneous round of applause from the waiting crowd.

The second instance was the male nurse who was flown back from Africa to recover from Ebola.  Having recovered he has returned to Africa although he does not know if he has immunity against the disease or. if so, for how long.  That takes courage.

Health Report

I have been laid low with a nasty cough for three weeks but am better now.  I bought a bottle of cough mixture to take at bedtime  It proved to be not only childproof but Grandmaproof as well.  I gave up and went to bed.  I woke next mornng feeling much better so what does that prove?
I have just had an eye injection.  Only my third in over a year!.  This new Eylia is certainly an improvement.   My sight is no better but the injections don't come round so often.

I have been looking at the suffix "able."  Quite use ful.  We have  marriageable, unthinkable, unwatchable, unteachable  But  unpackable ?  I have only just come to terms with  doable.  Yesterday I heard on the radio"But we have not sorted it out".  To which the reply was  "It will be sortable outable in time".  !!!