Update

[lexin]

Well, I’ll be off to Ysbyty Gwynedd tomorrow to see what outcome my latest operation has had. I was there on 4 November for the second operation. That went well and I came out of the anaesthesia fit as a flea and wanting to go home. I arrived at the hospital at 07:30, was in the operating theatre at 09:30 and arrive home at 15:00 while it was still light, very much surprising my worthy friend who was here to look after me as she’d been expecting it to be like the first operation when they didn’t let me out for hours and I arrived home close on midnight.

Irritatingly the buses are on strike in my area – they went on strike on 5 November and expect the strike to last until 19 December. I had no idea about this until my cleaner arrived today and told me about it. I would have been completely blindsided had she not mentioned it. Most annoying as I rely on the buses to get me in and out of town – it’s just too far for me to walk it. So any shopping won’t happen until 19 December, unless the strike is called off.

My sympathies are with the drivers. Bus drives in Wales are paid £10 an hour, whereas in England they are paid £13. I can see why the Welsh drivers are pissed off.

I don’t have much other news.

I am currently playing and enjoying “The Witcher”, which is a game that has been around for quite a long time but only recently came to my attention. It’s great fun.

I’m selling Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance. It cost me £54, an arm and a leg, but I bounced off it hard. I really don’t like online play, and, talking to my friend Graham’s niece Catriona, who hopes to be a game designer, I’m not the only one. She doesn’t like it and games are her life.

Smokey is still a cuddly kitty, currently hiding from the cleaner.

Comments

[isis]

Good luck for good outcome! And boo about the buses.

And, which Witcher (hee!) are you playing? I never played the first game but I enjoyed both the second and the third.

[lexin]

Thanks!

It's "The Witcher III", the one for the PS4. I play it on my PS5. Just got to a point where he's looking for the caverns under the Temple. I keep falling down the cliff and dying ignominiously.

[isis]

Oh, I did the same at that point (and at many others). Though it was good for me that it was my first modern computer game - I played in the 90s, a different generation altogether - and so starting with a game in which I could fall off cliffs taught me good cliff-habits. When I played the Dragon Age games I was amazed - I couldn't fall off the mountains! Now I'm playing Horizon Zero Dawn and have to relearn it, as I have plunged to my death many a time...

[corvidology]

Hoping for a great outcome! ♥

I can definitely see where the bus drivers are upset but it's such a pity as so many people still rely on them.

[lexin]

Fingers crossed!

I know, I feel for the drivers - if only I didn't rely on them!

[doire]

I'm so glad to hear your operation went well and I hope the news tomorrow is all you could wish for.

[lexin]

Thank you, but sadly it didn't go well. I need at least one and possibly more operations.