The pressure builds.
Saturday – Drive in increasingly uncomfortable rental 20 miles West.
Too noisy, too expensive, ….. eeek! Very ugly!
Sunday – Drive in torture machine 20 miles East to look at a specific vehicle.
Quietish, reasonable price, nasty colour.
The time at home is spent on the computers researching price, reliability, running costs and comfort. Search radius increased to 30 miles.
Monday – I’ve got an appointment at the doctor’s to have a 24 hour blood pressure monitor fitted as I’m “borderline”. This goes off every hour to find an average over a day. We decide to spend a quiet day at home researching on the computers and just look at one car in our local garage.
Pressure test 1 – In the middle of computer rage and a heated lively discussion with Lo, she is a terrible Goddess.
Pressure test 2 – In the middle of making a telephone call. I hate making telephone calls.
Pressure test 3 – In the middle of test driving a car from the local garage in heavy traffic.
Pressure test 4 – In the middle of making sardines on toast for the TG. I’d completely forgotten I was wearing the infernal machine, jumped in shock and flipped a sardine that stuck to the ceiling.
…. and so on throughout the day until …
Pressure test 11 – In bed having organised machine, tubes and pressure pad. Feeling very relaxed. The noise of the pump wakes the TG and she says in a very quiet voice -
“If that wakes me up again I am going to kill you.”
To be continued
Stumble It!
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Your past few days have been perilous. No wonder you’re “boarderline”. Between the humming and that machine you may have to start sleeping in the car. I hope the seats recline.
It’s OK Barbara, I’ve got a shed, I’ll be fine *puts on a brave face*
I love sardines on toast. Plenty of pepper on mine please.
… and vinegar I always think.
fish heads?!?!? yeaaaaaargh! even tiny fish heads, with tiny fish eyes…
No heads no eyes.
you have a book about that [vinegar that is!]
Indeed I do and it’s very useful. It’s improved my fish and chips no end. xxx
I’ve heard that running in extremely cold weather [minus clothing] is very good for lowering pressure…that is, the pressure of the people watching hahaha
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Very helpful … thank you …
I love sardines, even with the heads.
Blood pressure. It turns out that it is stressful to have it taken, just the testing can raise it.
But —- what about the car??? Nasty colors can be painted, you know.
Personally, I never threaten to kill my husband. But I am not a Terrible Goddess, more like a Mild Goddess. I suppose I would have been Arachne, the weaver, sent to weave as a spider forever for having angered the Real Goddess Athena.
That’s why the doc made me wear a thingymebob for a day away from the surgery. It didn’t help that the nurse who took my blood pressure originally was/is very pretty … #averyshallowandsadoldman tee hee heeeeeee
See the phlebotomists and triage nurses at the Fort are quite often young, buff and handsome young gentlemen (who call me Ma’am — which has a tendency to raise my blood pressure AND make me look behind me to see if my mother is there); so I can relate to the problems you face #anequallyshallowandsadolderwoman teehee
That’s worth yet another tee hee heeee
your adventure of having a hire car reminds me when my 2 litre diesel beast had to be repaired and the insurance company gave me a 1 litre petrol hair dryer to drive around in……
And ours had the power of a sewing machine and seats made of granite. Still, beggers can’t be choosers.
Sorry to hear about the buzzing, humming, thingamabob.
Try one of these http://www.renault-ze.com/en-gb/gamme-voitures-electriques-renault-z.e./twizy-technic/presentation-60210.html
As it says “A breath of fresh air”. Love that in sunny Surfugal, not so sure it would fit the bill driving the environs of the Cliff Top Residence.