All Over The Place!

Tuesday. 6.15 a.m. I'm not entirely sure what the weather is doing at the moment. As I write this, Carol Kirkwood is doing the forecast on BBC Breakfast. It looks as if the weather is going to get warmer.

I mentioned in the previous post how I have been doing online paid surveys and getting paid in cash and vouchers. I also mentioned buying some books with some Amazon points. Several of these books turned up yesterday. Three came in the morning, barely 24 hours after they were ordered. But then I had a second delivery, mid-afternoon. The book I ordered was called 'Churchill's Most Secret Airfield: RAF Tempsford,' by Bernard O'Connor. I bought this, because I had only recently found out about this airfield, which is in Bedford, and very close to Everton, where I worked in the early 2000s, as a Support Worker at a residential home for people with learning disabilities. I was using Google Maps, and searching for something (I forget what now.), but I saw RAF Tempsford marked (it had been closed down sometime after the war.) but there was a building marked which mentioned 'S.O.E.' (Special Operations Executive. the organisation which sent agents into France, during World War 2, to assist the French resistance.)

So, you may be asking, where is all this going? Digression, to say the least, but I have to explain the following. The book which I mentioned seemed to be something I should read. I am interested in history and Bedfordshire had many connections with activities connected with the Second World War, most particularly the band leader Glenn Miller and, closer to Milton Keynes, Bletchley Park and the Enigma Machine, codebreaking and lots more. In fact, there appear to be many more places around the area which were connected to all this, and only recently have these activities been revealed, because so many of them were top secret. So, having found this book whilst browsing Amazon, I decided to buy it. Unfortunately, for some reason I can't quite work out, somehow or other, instead of ordering one, three copies got ordered. Before I clicked on the 'buy now' button, to set the ordering process in motion, I attempted to remove the two excess copies. After several goes, I thought I had removed them. Then, yesterday afternoon, the package arrived from Amazon, but with THREE copies of the book inside! So I went on the Amazon website and set in motion the process to return the two copies of the book. I found that I could take the parcel, which I had packed up and taped up with parcel tape, in the packing which they had arrived, and found that if I printed the QR code, I just had to go to the post office within One Stop in Coffee Hall and the man behind the counter would scan the code and he would pack the parcel in a special Amazon bag, so my parcel could be returned. When I got home, I then went on the Amazon site and found that a refund had been made to my account, which can go to another purchase.

6.05 p.m. I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon. I was telephoned yesterday morning and was told I had an appointment. I arrived at the surgery around 4 o'clock, but the appointment was scheduled for 4.20. I was eventually called into the doctor's room at around 4.35. The doctor checked my blood pressure. It seemed to be fine. She told me that she had looked at the printout from the E.C.G. from the other day, and she said that something was showing up that suggested that I had a slightly abnormal heartbeat. I have experienced a rather odd heartbeat, a sort of strange missed beat if you like. The doctor then checked my oxygen level, with that thing which fits on my finger. Is it called an oximeter? It is. I have just looked on Google. There appeared to be nothing wrong in that area. Then she said that I ought to have a cardiology appointment at Milton Keynes Hospital, to get checked out and find out what can be done to prevent another blackout, which I did when I collapsed on the floor and ended up in hospital. So I just have to wait for a letter to arrive from the cardiology department.