Eye lid surgery Day 5

The swelling is going down and I have been to the supermarket though not driving myself.

Glad I have some prescription sunglasses to wear ,I feel I look like Frankenstein's grandma without them.The weather is too cold and windy to risk a walk in the fresh air, worried about getting grit in my eyes and infection.
                                                  

Eyelid surgery

This is day 2 of eyelid repositioning surgery.Not as painful as it looks

Coca Cola and Ham

 Boiled a ham in Coca Cola for the holidays- delicious, drain at the end of the cooking time ,remove the rind and finish off in the oven for 20 minutes with brown sugar and mustard patted into the scored fat .

 

Art Theft

Where is it?

A painting that I posted to a customer in Cornwall has gone missing in transit. If you see this painting anywhere please let me know.



                                                           

Lowry at Tate Britain

Enjoyed the Lowry exhibition so much I could not resist getting my paints out and having a go




                                                         

 

School is Out

 

 

 

 

                                              Saturday Night

 

Impressionist Impressions

So hot outside I found myself painting and ebaying again after a big break.

Walking Through The Wheat



Monet today. Working on a Lowry now.

Royal Tea Recipes -article upload to Amazon

I have just about mastered how to up load an article to Amazon for use on a Kindle complete with illustrations. This is not as easy as it is made out to be. I will not use any numbers or spots again to make points in the recipes.

Wanted to make it free but I cannot work out how to do this.


Royal Tea- teatime recipes with royal connections



                                                                 

Example

Edward and Mrs Simpson, introduced the Club Sandwich to England

Country Gardens

Visited lovely gardens at Bateman's in Kent and Penshurst Place in Sussex.

Bateman's was the home of the author Rudyard Kipling. The house is Jacobean and the interiors left very much as they were in Kipling's lifetime. Now owned by the national Trust the interiors are charming, I could move in tomorrow, .The gardens are as lovely as an English garden can be, kitchen garden orchard, herbaceous borders and a woodland walk.
The tea room is excellent with delicious cakes. The shop has a specialist book area with Kipling's works on sale at a reasonable price.

Penshurst Place

The interior of this castle, once the home of Sir Philip Sydney but now owned by the aristocratic de L'Isle family is dark and dreary. A tedious collection of armour, paintings by unknown artists and the third best porcelain. The restaurant was dismal, the coffee was good but the food poor, heavy use of catering quality margarine in the cakes. Several rooms were closed because of a wedding.Eat at the Porcupine Café before you go in, the light snacks there were better.

The gardens are a different matter. Extensive, formal parterre gardens, orchards, a woodland walk and an adventure playground for children,worth the visit. The shop is full of meritricious rubbish.


                                              

                                                             

 

NHS Doctors Too Busy to See Patients

No appointments to see my NHS GP in Cambridge are available for 2 weeks, 28th May the soonest offered.
The surgery and the GPs are too busy with a contract with the military from Wisbech .Now  NHS medical practices  have control of their budgets they are fixed on money making enterprises and their regular patients  can drop dead. Felt sorry for the students trying to get appointments during their very stressful examination period. Doubt many of the GPs have the expertise to become entrepreneurs and the whole thing will be a total mess.


No wonder the Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments cannot cope -- they are stuck with the overflow from this hopeless new system. What do the government think people are going to do if they are ill?
                                                               

Victorian Women--Illegitemacy--Foundlings

The social stigma and lack of any financial provision for  having a child out of wedlock was impossible for many young women to bear . A Foundling Hospital such as this one was the answer to the problem in 1883.





                                                     


The Foundling Hospital , Guildford Street, London 1883