I went in on Tuesday October 21st at 7.00am for my Op and fortunately I was second on the list for that day so did not have to wait too long before going down to theatre. I will not gross you out with the details but after four hours I was back on the Ward with DH! An hour later I was up and walking to the bathroom and getting things moving. I was in a bay with three other ladies, two had new knees and the other had had an accident and had plates put in. I was determined to get home as soon as possible but ended up staying for three days. I have found, the few times I have been in hospital, that you never sleep properly, they are always too warm and the constant checks they do on you during the night when you have just nodded off!!!! Anyway my Consultant was happy for me to come home on the Thursday evening, I did stay in bed on Friday catching up on my sleep, got up Saturday and then spent Sunday in bed. Monday I was back at my desk working.
The best bit of it all, there is no pain in the hip! Yes it is sore and of course swollen but I can cope with all of that as there is no pain. I did have the clips taken out on Friday, all sixty of them (!) and the Nurse checked the wound which is all fine and healing well. The only problem is that my skin around the wound has reacted to the dressings and has blistered in places but it is fine. I have been doing my exercises every day and the only thing which is taking time is going up and down the stairs but everything else is fine.
At the weekend I managed to get all the cleaning done and the washing and now have a basket of ironing to get done.
Friday I was at Eldests getting two weeks worth of his work done and he is now up to date. Just before I went in to hospital there was a software upgrade to the Accounts package we use and this new version is running with AI and it is dreadful! It takes fifteen minutes just to log in and has obviously not been thought through properly at all! Anyway despite all that he is now sorted. Our work is also up to date although DH’s laptop for work, which he uses all day every day, stopped working the weekend I was home so he has had to have a new one and get all his data across! He has spent the last week doing work onhis phone which is never easy but today he is back up and running!
I missed saying Happy Halloween to everyone and we did have a few Trick or Treaters on Friday evening, although I was still with Eldest. DH came home to feed Coco and let her out and sort out the shopping whilst I finished Eldest’s work. The weather was not very nice so we think that put a few people off.
DH over the weekend raked all the leaves in our garden and had a tidy up as the weather was nice and the best bit of the weekend I got out of Hospital was that we put the Hour back and gained an extra hour in bed!!! I know that means that it will be getting dark earlier but I do love this time of year! It is cosy and I love drawing the curtains and putting the lights on.
I did get quite a bit of reading done whilst I was in hospital and will show you what I have been reading next week.
Coco missed me and spent the two days I stayed in bed next to me snuggling. When I saw Little Man he wanted me to pick him up and give him a hug which I am now able to do because my hip has been fixed! I have my six week check up on December 3rd and then I will be able to drive again, although Eldest has my vechicle at the moment as he is doing some jobs on his!
DH had his Birthday in the middle of the week so everyone came to us on Saturday for a family dinner, which was a takeaway as I am not quite up to cooking for seven of us just yet. It was lovely to have everyone here, they came early and then went home early evening and I must admit I was quite tired by the end of it!
DH has been busy with events of course, the Finale of 100 years of Carnival in the village with a big firework display where 1000 people attended. He also did two weekends of County swimming events and one of our other local swimming club’s Ghoul in the Pool Open event. Next weekend we have nothing on so we will be getting some more de-cluttering done in our garage. I am still determined to get this job finished before Year End and also empty and tidy the attic too.
I cannot believe that it is November already? The months really do seem to fly by although with me being a little less mobile this month I am hoping that I will be able to get lots done at home. I have capitulated and bought our Christmas Cake, pudding and mince pies this year because although I have a few weeks before Christmas I do not want to be rushing around trying to get things done. I can do all that I normally do next year!
I have been buying Christmas Presents as I have seen things and have a few more things to get and then I am done! I have all our Christmas cards ready for us to write and need to wrap the presents and again it will be done. We have a few nice things to do during December and also seeing family and friends which is my favourite bit of the whole of Christmas so I am really looking forward to that. DH and I are going to a concert on December 5th ” Vivaldi by Candlelight” which I am looking forward to, we also have a day planned to go around the Christmas Market and see all the Christmas lights. DH has three Christmas Light Switch ons to do and the Presentation Night for the swimming club. We are taking the Children to see Santa on the Steam Train again which will be great, we have Youngest’s Birthday and also a Fun Gala for the swimming club too. It is going to be busy as always.
Christmas will be here before we know it!!! I am planning on doing a two step decoration set up this year rather than trying to do it all on one day, just so I can concentrate on getting things done properly. Our tree, we always have a real one, will be the last thing done at the beginning of December. It made be laugh looking at the TV films on Friday it was ALL Halloween and then Saturday the schedules were full of Christmas movies!! There did not seem to be any gap between the two!!!!!! I do love the Christmas movies and will be watching them when I have had enough of all the Horror movies!!!
DH does have another two day weekend swimming event on November 15th and 16th so I am going to spend that weekend in my sewing room getting some things finished! I will show you it all when I can.
Anyway I hope you lovely lot are all okay and will have a great week.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
I keep seeing on Instagram all these people putting up their Christmas decorations! Now you know I love Christmas but even I think it is a little too early on November 17th to be putting them up. I know the stores have had the decorations up for a while now but it is sort of expected and the decorations are going up in the towns but I have seen quite a few homes already decorated. I think it is because people are so fed up with the World as it is at the moment that the decorations add a little bit of cheer. Saying all this I have decided to get our decorations down and sort them out next weekend!!!!
Speaking of Christmas this film is 35 years old on November 16th! Now how did that happen? DH and I went to the cinema to see it when it first came out, I was 26 and DH 33 and we had been married for two years. I remember sitting in the cinema crying with laughter at the film, I don’t remember any other film ever having that affect on me. I just loved it and still watch it now all through the year but especially at Christmas. I think Christmas movies are like Christmas songs there are a few which you play every year and are never fed up of and will play them on repeat well Home Alone is definitely one of them. I do not like Home Alone 2 or any of the subsequent ones just the original. 
Here are some pictures of our garden in its Autumn finery. The big space in the picture above is where we have had to take out the Box bush so that will stay like this now until Spring when I have some plans for some new plants to go in. 
Our two trees in the garden the one onthe right which is the cherry tree has lost all of its leaves now. The one on the left is the Cotoneaster which keeps its leaves all year except for a few is sheds. It was trimmed when the men came into more of a round shape.
The conifers have also had trim and shape as well at the top of the steps. We still have a little bit of work to do with trimming some of the summer plants which need to be done in the next two weeks when it will be the last brown bin of the season. 
Coco is having a snooze this morning!!!! The weather is turning this week into more of our normal Autumn temperatures with freezing overnight so she is getting into hibernation mode!
