A while ago Doug went to see a G.P., Peter, who specialises in skin cancers, to have a couple of lesions removed. They got talking and discovered both had a love of working with timber and gardening among other things. I booked in for a skin check and had one on Tuesday, just as Peter got back from holiday. He burnt three lesions off with dry ice and there is a fourth that will be cut out on Tuesday. Peter and Doug had arranged a swap of the Clearlite roofing we had removed from the deck for some native timber. Peter wanted to use the clear roofing for a hot house so yesterday we loaded the trailer and went to the other side of town. We had a tour of the garden which included plants such as blueberry, bananas, Tropical paw paw as well as the more usual berries, tomatoes and greens.
Peter and Doug then loaded the trailer with the native timber Peter telling Doug to let him know if he needed anything else or anything specific before we went up and had a tour of the pool area and then the house which is built of native timber. This was followed by a cuppa. We would have been there for a couple of hours and enjoyed the company of Peter and his wife.
There are some lovely people in this world.
In the afternoon, after the trailer was unloaded we decorated the Christmas Tree which now has a new pewter ornament received from a cousin in Canada, a humpback this year.
You are so ahead of me, and I think we will not have a tree this year. Good idea to have every spot checked these days.
ReplyDeleteI usually get the tree up on December 1st. Thought I had better get around to it. I have not had a skin check before and, as Peter is retiring in February, it gave me the incentive not to put it off any longer. The one that will be cut out on Tuesday will go for a biopsy.
DeleteLooking good! Ours goes up on Sunday, providing the weather allows me to go out with my saw.
ReplyDeleteI used to cut one down until it fell over complete with bucket of water and I had to move a bookcase and other furniture and mop up. Artificial since then.
DeleteI put my tree up yesterday. It's a very cheap, rather tatty, artificial tree that my mother got about 40 years ago. Many of the ornaments are even older than that, some that belonged to my granny and some that Mum bought 60-odd years ago. It doesn't look anywhere near as grand as yours of course.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about mine being grand. I bought the tree in a garage sale when I moved down here 10 years ago and usually buy one ornament a year. None handed down unfortunately but the original tinsel and star would be over 50 years old and my cousin in Canada has been sending a pewter ornament each year for over 20 years now.
DeleteA lovely tree and presents already underneath! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWe bought ourselves a present the other day.
DeleteI go to the skin doctor every year and I never leave without her removing some and freezing others. Irish skin and loving the sun does not go well together.
ReplyDeleteYour tree looks really lovely. I switched to artificial 20 years ago. They are so much easier and I don’t have t spend time laying on the floor trying to water it.
Yes, the artificial ones are so much easier.
DeleteYour tree looks good, we put ours up last week too, Barry ordered one from Briscoes.
ReplyDeleteI always like to have a tree.
DeleteGood to have skin checks. Hope you both have a lovely Christmas. Your Christmas tree looks great.
ReplyDeleteI should have had ones years ago. Not too many problems though.
DeleteGood to find people with common interests to yourself.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the treatments.. Pirate has a couple that the doctors are assuring us are ok....but we are not too sure.
Yes, as you say it is good to have common interests. I hope Pirate's are nothing serious.
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