Slept well, up at 5.30am, fending for myself. The other day I started listening to a book while working on the computer.

Kathy and her family called in for a visit, they stayed 45 mins, haven’t seen Micheal in ages.

Slept till 6am, at 2am I was feeling light headed so I got up and checked my BGL which was 5.1 so normal. I also took pain relief before returning to bed.

Managed over the day to write one letter, well start it anyway. Also managed to write tomorrows blog post.

Kathy came over and gave me a shower.

Had a decent nights sleep, up at 5.30 when I woke.

I managed to finish the letter and do two more.

Sue called in and gave me an early birthday gift, a bloody good lighter for people like me. I am so thrilled with it.

Slept in till 6am this morning went to ring Tasha from the bathroom but it came up not possible. I discovered that the loungeroom phone was on speaker and not on its base, on hanging it up and hitting the hangup button all was good.

Saw the podiatrist my feet are all nice and nails trimmed.

A very warm day.

Had another good night woke at 6am.

Went to the doctors about my eye, he wants me to see my optometrist to check it out. He also prescribed another lo of anti-viral medication.

Also got a referral to see someone about my knees as Tim is fed up waiting to see someone through the hospital.

Another good night waking at 11.40pm to pee and straight back to bed. I got up at 5.55am.

Received a text from some guy who

will be here on Monday to do something about the ramp at the front door.

Started the new medication for the tremor, also started second lot of anti-viral medication. See the optometrist on Saturday morning.

Another good night woke at 5.50am again, I could get used to this.

At 8.15 Tim got up this was a surprised, turned out he thought it was Saturday, discovering it is Friday he went back to bed.

Had a phone call from knee specialist he doesn’t see patients without private insurance but will look at referral and they will get back to me.

Tim spoke to Paige from the DoH about a letter we need for insurance claim, also we asked about work on the roof. She said it was decided that we can stay here while the work is being done. But no idea when the work will be done.

Slept in till 6am, woke coughing on and off during the night, will do a RAT test when someone can help me.

My eyes are good but I need dry eye drops for 6 weeks. Me and eye drops are not a good mix, but we will do the best we can.

Kathy came over and showered me, she was on her own.

As some of you will know on the 27 July I was diagnosed with shingles on my scalp and in my left eye. So I am doing a post about shingles. I am improving but still have a lot of bloody pain

and find my eye waters like a dripping tap when trying to watch TV or use the computer. So I am doing things for a short period of time giving my eye a break. I have to see my optometrist asap to check the eye according to my GP.

Most cases of shingles last three to five weeks. The first sign is often burning or tingling pain; sometimes it includes numbness or itching on one side of the body. Somewhere between one and five days after the tingling or burning feeling on the skin, a red rash will appear.

A reactivation of the chickenpox virus in the body, causing a painful rash.

Anyone who’s had chickenpox may develop shingles. It isn’t known what reactivates the virus.

Shingles causes a painful rash that may appear as a stripe of blisters on the torso. Pain can persist even after the rash is gone (this is called post-herpetic neuralgia).

Treatments include pain relief and antiviral medication such as aciclovir or valaciclovir. A chickenpox vaccine in childhood or a shingles vaccine as an adult can minimise the risk of developing shingles.

Generally shingles is not contagious, but a person with active shingles can spread the virus when the rash is in the blister phase. It’s important to keep the rash covered. Most cases of shingles last 3-5 weeks. Most people get shingles only one time, but, it is possible to have it more than once.

Tuesday now so let’s look at this weeks cleaver creature and it is the Mistletoe bird, this bird is the only one known to wipe its bottom on a branch after it has pooped.

It only eats the berries of the mistletoe plant they grow on the branches of other trees, so by wiping its poop which contains seeds on branches it is planting if you like more mistletoe.

The mistletoe bird, also known as the mistletoe flower pecker, is a species of flower pecker native to most of Australia and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea.

Well another Monday is here and because I can touch type and take my time I am doing a fact post.

The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, in 1992 aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.

Russian president Nikita Khrushchev credited spam for keeping the Soviet Army alive during WW11. We had lost our most fertile food-bearing lands, the Ukraine and the Northern Caucasians without spam we wouldn’t be able to feed the army.

Thomas Edison was the most inventive person with 1,093 patents.

The first record ever made was “Mary had a little lamb” by Thomas Edison, you couldn’t dance to it but everyone was impressed at the time.

Count Dracula has appeared in more horror movies then any other character with 161 appearances.

Managed to sleep in till 7am which is good.

Kathy rang she is sick and may not be over, which is ok with me.

Well Kathy arrived at 11ish but looked awful sick so didn’t stay or do anything while here.

Tim did some food shopping.

Sunday at last, home alone as per usual, managed to do a few things on the computer, including a blog update.

Had to get help with lunch but managed ok on my own.

Had a so so night somewhat restless but not too bad, up at 5.10am.

Jess took Leo to his paediatric appointment only to find out it was on the 2^nd not the 8^th.

Sandy came over to see me she had Temika with her.

Had a good day.

Had another good night sleep didn’t need to bother Tim at all.

Another good start to the day managed a few things before my eye started watering.

Had a good day ending with a shower.

A good night but a watery start with my eye, very frustrating. I can barely see.

Can’t do much today due to my eye.

Had a rough night from 2.20am ended up get up getting up at 5.15am.

My eye is bad, I want to see a Dr about it but finding someone to take me isn’t easy. Appointment made for next Wednesday at 9.24am.

Managed to do the shopping online with issue.

Had a good night but yet again my eye is like a dripping tap.

Kathy said her household is full of sick people.

Tim ran the vacuum over the floor before leaving for work.

A cold and wet day.

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone? 
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

BY: Edgar Allan Poe

Well hello everyone the few weeks we will be looking at some clever creatures starting with the magnetic termite.

The Magnetic Termite can be found in the Northern Territory, they build moulds that are cleverly designed to help them survive all kinds of weather, including floods.

These moulds are twice the size of a human and they’re built in flat shapes along as axis that helps them avoid the full force of the sun.

Magnetic Termite Mounds are exclusive to Northern Territory and named due to the wedge-shaped aligned with its main axis running north and south. Therefore, mounds are mysteriously aligned to the earth’s magnetic field

“Perhaps most exciting of all — the mounds are extremely old up to 4,000 years, similar to the ages of the pyramids.” The mounds are largely hidden from view in the fully deciduous, semiarid, thorny-scrub caatinga forests unique to northeastern Brazil.

Good morning I am feeling better in myself except for the watering eye.

During the middle ages there was on average one church for every 200 people.

The worlds largest alphabet is the Cambodian one with 74 letters.

Martin Luther King Jr was originally named Micheal like his father at the age of 5 his father changed both their names to Martin.

Birds played a role in aerial warfare during WW1, because of their acute hearing parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower to warn of approaching aircraft long before the planes were heard or seen my humans.

The top 109 highest mountains in the world are in Asia with 96 of them being in the Himalayas.

I haven’t been around much lately due to being sick as, on Thursday 28^th July I was that sick that my sister after talking to Tasha came and checked on me and rang for the ambos, I was taken to Belmont hospital and diagnosed with shingles, on my scalp and in my let eye.

I was on medication for a week and in general feel better, however, I am still in a lot of pain and my eye waters a lot when trying to use computer or watch TV.

On the Wednesday 3^rd we had a skip bin dropped off and workmen turn up to start work on the ceiling, not the roof as yet. They were surprised to see us here as usally the tennet has been moved to other accomation while the work is done.

Tasha rang the DoH about emergency accomation and they are looking into it. I am not keen on being in a motel alone with no help day after day.

Friday saw me venture out of the house for my first Covid booster shot.

I hope to be back blogging as usual soon.