That Buzzing Feeling

That Phil Needham, he's always complaining about that buzzing in his ears; all those years of loud power tools and louder rock music.

Actually it's my youngest helping to collect a swarm and finishing up with just a few on his noggin.

Happy Chickens

Our chickens seem to be happy chickens, well they are certainly quite cheeky and opportunistic, give them a grain and they'll take a bushel. Call in and see them and buy some of their lovely fresh eggs.

Expensive Hospital Trip.

Last week we travelled all the way to Cardiff as t’other half had been summoned to see the immunologist. Now ”the immunologist ” is, in this case the important phrase here. In the whole of Wales we have only one immunologist, well, this isn’t quite true, he now has a registrar but in the same place of course. What a state of affairs in this day and age, if you live in the north of Wales it means you have something like a four or five hour journey to find out why it was you nearly died after that curry or after being stung in the garden over the weekend etc. Surely we ought to have more, at the very least one more in Bangor and another in Aberystwyth. If t’other half was to take up the offer of a course to de-sensitise her to the effects of a Bee sting (ironic eh?), it would cost us hundreds if not thousands of pounds in lost work, travelling costs and accommodation. This makes the treatment for what is a potentially a life threatening condition, for us and I’m sure for most ordinary people, financially, extremely difficult. This is an area that our Assembly Members should put some money into. Yet another case of N.H.S. mismanagement? Besides the forgoing, it’s a two-year waiting list before you will get any treatment anyway, so it all becomes rather academic. On a positive note, the staff there were wonderful. They were most helpful, patient and informative. They took a great deal of time and trouble to help in every way. So many, many thanks to the immunology department at Cardiff Royal Infirmary.