Povey Prattle

  Two days ago I had a routine appointment with a Heart Doctor who is somewhat new to me. His  predecessor   (who moved to California) always made time for a bit of relaxing chit-chat before we got down to business.  That was good. The new Doctor is all business. My heart is sound, so without by or leave,  this Doctor launched into a necessary review of my meds. He said  "Take gobbledygook med  # 1 twice a day.  Continue to take gobbledygook med # 2 as usual.  But split gobbledygook med # 3 into halves, and take half each morning and half each evening" Gobbledygook?  Might as well have been. He rattled off the names of the meds with the familiarity as I might use to name my siblings.  The names meant nothing to me! I asked him to write them down.  He did so on a Post-It, naming  them in what he called his "third school grade handwriting". He got that right. A printed hand out would have been more helpful! Make sense of that if you can. The names mean nothing to me.

It's Finals Week at New Collège, Sarasota, FL Some students are under stress.  So the Collège, in cooperation with the Humane Society of Sarasota, invites Dogs (and their owners) to offer Canine Stress Relief in the Bancroft Library.  Zion and I love to be there. We couldn't do so last year because of COVID  precautions. We  were there again with bells on today. 'Twas such a chore for Mr. Z as these photo's will show.   My pleasure was partly in showing Z off; and partly by having great conversations with bright young women and men. Whoop de Doo!

  I love the feathering just above Zion's paws. He is a handsome Dude. 

Comestibles.   November 30th 2021  Breakfast  Smoked Trout and Poached Eggs. Lunch  Spinach Salad. So darned healthy. Mid afternoon as Zion and I drove home from Arlington Park I had a "yen" for something sweet and not necessarily healthy for my evening meal. I had the ingredients at  hand, so I made stovetop Rice Pudding (YUM) for my dinner.   YUM AGAIN! " Sort of Healthy" if you overlook the Brown Sugar, Raisons, and Whole Cream which "Tarted it up"   " Sort of Healthy" and utterly delicious! Hands up if your Mum or Dad made Rice Pud.  

  Some may remember that my Hotel in Bristol is situated at the old City Docks.     Here is a bit of the early history of those docks via Wikipedia " Bristol grew up on the banks of the Rivers Avon and  Frome . Since the 13th century, the rivers have been modified for use as docks including the diversion of the River Frome in the 1240s into an artificial  deep channel  known as "Saint Augustine's Reach", which flowed into the River Avon. [1] [2]  Saint Augustine's Reach became the heart of Bristol's docks with its quays and wharfs. [2]   The River Avon  and the  River Severn  into which it flows, have   tides  which fluctuate about 30 feet (9 metres) between high and low water. (second only to the Bay of Funday,  jmp)  This means that the river is easily navigable at high-tide but reduced to a muddy channel at low tide in which ships would often run aground. Ships had no option but to be stranded in the harbour for unloading, giving rise to the phrase "