I seem to be have been busy doing nothing much, hence
my silence. Monday morning was taken up with a trip to the surgery for a blood
let. Although it only took a few minutes to actually give the blood, getting
ready, getting up there, preparing food for the evening, all took up the
morning.
Tuesday inevitably saw the home help come. This has
become a more anxious event these days. My regular carer has been removed &
sent elsewhere. I seem to have had a whole series of different people coming,
with more or less success. I’m not even confident what time they are due to
arrive, making it difficult to do other tasks such as preparing dinner, around
the visit. I’m just glad I don’t need a lot of personal care as I don’t think I
would like total strangers coming to shower me all the time.
Wednesday turned into ironing morning. The warm
sunshine we’ve had lately got my washing dry quickly. This week’s washing seem
to include a lot of things that needed ironing.
Yesterday was shower day. These days I have a rather
horrid smelling ointment – it contains sulphur & therefore smells of rotten
eggs - on my head & leaving it on for an hour before washing it off. (It’s
for the psoriasis on my scalp. It is easing things though it’s not stopped it
itchy so far.) Even as the water descended on me I heard the garden gate open.
It was our gardener. By the time I’d seen her & discussed latest
horticultural queries & life more generally, that was another couple of
hours gone by.
Finally today I’ve had a morning in which all I had to
do was prepare a sort of pork cottage pie for dinner. That’s now ready to
reheat this evening along with some green veg, probably green beans.
Meanwhile the Fox has read my last jigsaw blog &
commented I hadn’t mentioned much about the “The Man from U.N.C.L.E”. I
observed I did mention it.
What else could I say? What really struck me is how
some actors get instantly recognised for a particular role, no matter how many
other roles they play, & play well too. On the box of one toy was an image
of Ilya Kuryakin (David McCallum). It’s strange how even these days I see him
in that role even though I’ve seen him in many other roles - in “Sapphire &
Steel”, the “Invisible Man”, “Colditz” “The Great Escape” & these days as
Ducky in “NCIS”.
The same goes for my reaction for Robert Vaughn. His
picture appeared on another toy as Napoleon Solo. He too has appeared in
numerous films & other TV series. I think of him quite creditably in the likes
of “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Bridge at Remagen”, “The Protectors” &
most recently in “Hustle”.
Despite all these works & numerous others, in which
I happily accept them in their other roles, they remain, for me, Ilya Kuryakin
& Napoleon Solo, the men from U.N.C.L.E. Or maybe it just shows what an
impact the series had on me as a child in the 1960s.
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