Ivan turned up today to do a bit more of the electrics. He let us know that our plumber, Dean, has caught Covid so our chances of being ready for Bridget by Easter are truely squashed. Bridget may come up anyway if the weather is good.
Karola’s left eye is worse today so I called the ophthalmologist Dr John Beaumont and after his morning surgery he called back and gave us an appointment within the hour. Karola saw the practice nurse, Penny Wilson, and did some standard eye tests; she then saw Dr John and repeated most of them again.
Afterwards we were dispatched to the Hawkes Bay hospital as an emergency eye case. I’d not been to “Villa 3” at the hospital before, there are quite a number of single-storey buildings in addition to the imposing four-storey main hospital building. “Villa 3” seems to be for eyes and teeth. Another nurse did the eye tests again and then, after the usual waiting around, Karola saw a large woman doctor of Indian extraction. She was efficient, calm, and quite pleasant but firm. She took “cornea scrapings” for lab analysis.
I’d put eye-drop prescription in at the Stortford Lodge pharmacy on the way to the hospital so we back-tracked to pick it up. My friendly plump English Labrador-owning pharmacist took issue, (on Karola’s behalf), with the instructions – one drop every 30 minutes for 12 hours then per hour for 48 hours. So she rang Dr John and got him to agree that we didn’t need to do that all through the night. Strange because, in the surgery, he insisted that either we agree to the all day and all of the night routine or he would assign Karola to three days in hospital.
Mark came at noon after his self-isolation due to his son Wolfgang being struck down. He cleared away the four heaps of thistle cuttings I’d left in the One Acre then filled the big trailer with wood from the big oak branch I’d chopped up over a week ago.Mark also picked up the elm firewood I cut up from a fallen branch yesterday.
Wood From The Fallen Oak Branch A Few Weeks Ago
What Wouldn’t Fit On The Trailer
Oak Avenue Weather:13.0℃—18.1℃ 0.8mm rain [76.9] TdOx2 eggs=2 Mark=4
