Hurrah!

[blackberry444]

Hurrah!

I heard today that I've been granted a blue badge!  Don't know when it will arrive, though.  I've had to respond with a £2 cheque.  Maybe the LA doesn't have problems with their bank processing small cheques, but I'd always understood that it wasn't worth their while paying in cheques for less than a fiver.

I was so surprised!  I really thought they'd respond with an  "Eff off, you fake!"

At last I shall be able to park near the supermarket, drive myself to the Lit & Phil and park near the Adult Learning Centre or the University.  Maybe I'll get out a bit more now.  And  I shall be able to park right outside Caroline's office, always providing some other selfish disabled person hasn't got there first.  It will save me a fortune in taxi fares, too.

I feel almost completely better today, although I cringe at every tiny abdominal twinge.  John however doesn't feel good and his bad back is worse.  Charles is unchanged.  I do wish I could think of something to cheer him up or make him happy.

Today I'm having yet another go at my disorganised filing and untidy bedroom.  Where does all this paper come from?  It seems as though I get new documents from the cats' insurers every couple of months, and there's a tidal wave of unimportant stuff from banks, insurance companies and catalogues which can't be thrown away but has to be shredded because it has my account details, name and address on.  I'm beginning to get overwhelmed with recycling.  John wasn't able to do it this week, because of his back and it seems to be filling every corner of the house, and overrunning my bedroom.

Oh well, I'd better push on with it while I can, cos I have to  go to Boots later, and then to the pet shop to spend a further small fortune on cat food and litter!

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Excellent news! Sensibleness holds sway for once.

And I know just what you mean about the wretched paper.

[femsc.livejournal.com]

Oh yes indeedy. Paperless society? I should coco. More of the damned stuff than there ever was before all this computery electronic wothaveyou, innit, mutter mutter etc etc.

I'm really pleased though that you've got your blue badge, G. Life is going to be transformed :) :) :)

Congratulations

[oiorpata.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear you got the badge. Doesn't that also mean that you'll be able to get discount rates at the theatre and other cultural venues, and also be able to bring in an able bodied sidekick for free? My brother loves taking his father in law to the footie because they get seats right behind the goal and only have to pay for one ticket between the two of them.

Re: Congratulations

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Thanks Karen. I feel quite pleased myself. It will be great to be able to park near the Lit & Phil, the Centre for Lifelong Learning and the University where the Poetry School takes place.

I shall look into the question of any attached undeserved privileges. I hadn't heard of that!

I shall be able to park right next to the supermarket as well, which will make shopping a lot easier for me. Ooo! And I shall be able to visit the Baltic without having to walk for miles first. I'm nor that taken with the kind of art they have there, although I might be pleasantly surprised, but I've been longing to visit the building itself. I saw it when we first came here, before it was remolished, when it was a largely derelict building with an enormous red Amish Kapoor installation inside it.

Perhaps I can make sure of comfortable seats at the Sage, too. I haven't been there yet, mainly because I can't tell how much legroom there is.

And perhaps I will be able to get more comfortable convenient seats in the Theatre Royal so that I can see the ballets, if I can afford it; it's terribly expensive. I was prepared to take a chance to go and see Patrick Stewart as Prospero, but because I'd have to have someone with me it would have cost between £60 and £80.

I'm impatiently waiting for it to arrive now.