A great end to the week....

Hi again everybody !!

It's another Saturday & it's still raining out side !! It's crazy.... it really is !! We live in a fairly "rural" area & the fields are completely saturated... you can honestly see the water flowing off of them !! Luckily - so far, we have never been flooded here, but I always look to the back of the house, just incase there is a puddle !!

Mind you - if we get flooded - well, the rest of the village would be underwater !! We live at the "top end" of the village... so, luckily we don't get many problems.... oh well - enough of the weather !!

As mentioned - it's another Saturday & the end of another week.... not one of the best ones I've ever had - but, more of that later..... first, the family !!

At the moment, B (my Wife & dearest friend) and I are the only two here. As I type, she is up in J's room, sorting out some of her crafty stuff..... she is having a "big" change around, in the hope that she will be able to find things easier. If it's anything like my Cd filing system, well.... good luck B !!

As for the rest of the family.... J (our Son) is in Wales, at Uni....... and ME (our Daughter) is out with her boyfriend (M) looking at houses & the such like. They hope to buy one soon - it's just a case of finding the right one !! They, more or less, have their mortgage - so... it's house hunting time !!

I think she will be home for tea - not sure if M's coming over as well..... I'll find out, as & when they come thru' the door !!

So - that just leaves me......

I'm sat here listening to another Gov't Mule concert.... this time one that's on You-Tube (or what ever it's called).... hopefully, this year, they will release some new concert Cd's. they seem to play a shed load of concerts, so it would be great to have another live set from them !!

Earlier, B & I went into town.... even tho' it was raining like heck, we still had to get some groceries, so... !! The supermarket wasn't too bad - I think the weather was keeping people in doors !! As long time readers will know - I hate crowds !! Oh well.... we also had to go to the hospital - to explain.

Yesterday afternoon, I had to go into Taunton, to meet up with the plastic surgeon guy - that was a complete waste of time & effort !! I'll explain why, in a minute - but.... Because they took my dressings off, to look at the wound, they had to re-dress it, afterwards. Honestly - it was really crap... the thing (dressing) was piratically falling off !! So - earlier - B took me to the local hospital, here in town. I say locally - it's about 10 miles away - but, it's a lot closer than Taunton..... to have it done over, by one of the clinic nurses there.

Anyways - she did a great job on it.... now, hopefully, it will last until Monday, when I go to the surgery, here in the village, to have it looked at again. I must of gone thru' hundreds of dressings, over the last 7 months or so !! Oh well.... back to yesterday.

I had to meet up with a semi-retired  Consultant, so he could give the wound the once over... to see if another surgery would help. Well, after less than 2 minutes, he decided it wouldn't help - then, for the next 5 minutes, he & one of the other guys there started pulling & poking my back, discussing what they could do, if they did actually do anything !!

Honestly, talk about pain !! I know they are experts in their respective fields - but, for crying out loud, if you're not going to do anything, why put me thru' all the pulling & stuff !! It really did hurt !!

It seems that, I now have to wait 3 or 4 months, for the hole in my back, to heal on it's own !! That will mean, give or take, that it will about a year, since the first operation, for the whole thing to heal
over !!

I actually said to the guy, I was hoping for a quicker solution then that, but he said he was going to change his mind - so, that really did spoil my day !! Even worse, they left the room & sort of forgot about me..... we just sat there, waiting for someone to redress the stuff they took off, until a nurse came in & found me waiting there !!

Someone then came & botched up the re-dress... hence I had had to go to the clinic today, to have it done over.... not good really !!

I now have to wait until Thursday (I think) to see the Consultant, who actually did the surgery in the first place... really & truly to see what he might decide to do next, if anything !! He might not be too happy to see me.... given how much "pain" I've had to go thru' - following the failed skin graft, in December !! I've put up with a shed load of stuff, since last May...... but, things are getting beyond a bloody joke now !! To say I'm going to have a bloody moan at him.... well - we'll see what he has to say, he might have some magic fix, up his sleeve......... but, I doubt that very much !!

The thought of have this going on, for another 3 months or so..... well, I know there are people worse off than me, but..... I've had enough now - I want my ball back !! The kids can play with someone else's toys !!

Oh - while I was coming out of the hospital, a guy said "hello" to me. It took a while, for me to remember him - but, he was in hospital, for a while, last year, when I was there. It was nice of him to speak to me..... but, it was also very sad... it turned out his little girl had died, since I last saw him !! As I just said - there are people worse off....

Getting back to music...

I was going to write about a Lp & how it changed things for me - but, really & truly, it wasn't so much the Lp, just side one & the four tracks that are on it !! I'm talking about Led Zeppelin's first album & - to a slightly lesser extent, their second one as well.... the tracks are:

Led Zeppelin (1)

1) Good Times, Bad Times
2) Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
3) You Shook Me
4) Dazed & Confused
5) Your Time Is Gonna Come
6) Black Mountain Side
7) Communication Breakdown
8) I Can't Quit You Baby
9) How Many More Times

Led Zeppelin (2)

1) Whole Lotta Love
2) What Is & What Should Never be
3) The Lemon Song
4) Thank You
5) Heartbreaker
6) Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)
7) Ramble On
8) Moby Dick
9) Bring It On Home

Why am writing about two albums - well, quite simply because I bought both of them, on the same day & listened to them on that
day !! But, it was simply the first side of Lp one, that really did it for me. It had everything I liked about music... it really did.... From blues, thru' acoustic  to down right rock !!

I had recorded a few of the bands radio slots, from earlier in the year & I knew several of the tracks, before I actually laid out the cash to buy them....... but, to blast the Lp thru' the stereo system, that was pretty good, for it's time - well, it blew me completely away, it really did !!

Since then, I've bought all of the bands official releases - sometime two or three times over - and, for my sins, loads & loads of the bootlegs that have come out over the years !! As always - don't buy bootlegs - buy the official stuff - but..... I just really enjoy listening to their live shows & how they (the band) changed over the years.

I was lucky to see the band twice & Robert Plant & Jimmy Page a few times... solo & together - all of them have been concerts to
remember !! You can read all of my ravings, about some of the concerts, in my earlier posts...... but, those albums certainly had one mother of an influence on my life !! You can almost smell the Zeppelin Cd's scattered around the house... I've lost count of how many I've now collected - but, nearly all of them are worth having !! Plus - thru' collecting their stuff - I've made friends with a load of people over the years..... it's been a lot of fun !!

ME has just come home, with some fantastic news.... they have found a house & have had an offer accepted !! They are going to be buying as soon as things get sorted out, bless them !! I'm very happy for both of them & I'm proud of both of my children !! They are both brilliant "kids" - even if they don't like their old man, from time to time....... I love them both !!

So - with that fantastic news.... I will be on my ways..... I don't think I can write much more - I'm sooooo happy at the moment, it's
fantastic !! A great end to the week....

I thank you all, for logging in & taking the time to read my words.... until next time....

Bye Bye