New doctor, Downton Abbey, comfrey and guests

Well, doctors are a dodgy topic for Downton fans at the moment (more about this later), but I had a good experience with a doctor yesterday, which definitely makes a change. I had to go and see my GP to get a referral to rheumatology and while there I thought I would get a prescription for my blood pressure meds, which are only dished out a month at a time nowadays. As it happened she was extremely friendly, suggested a few checkups as she had not seen me for ages and gave me three months worth of prescriptions to boot. She also complained about the village surgery as they have insisted that my papers should be with them, so she didn't think I was coming to her any more. That is utter cheek from the village surgery without asking me first. Especially as it was done some time ago when there was no permanent doctor there. Anyway, I prefer her, so now I made it clear that I want my registration to be with her and only go in the village if I have to. In the evening I tried to catch up with my missed TV programs, but unfortunately the bandwidth was crap, so I decided to watch Downton and the others early this morning.

It was yet another spiffing episode, but as devotees of the series already know, we lost Lady Sybil to eclampsia after childbirth. Poor Sybil, she was really the victim of the stuck up royal doctor being no use and nobody believing the local family doctor, who could have saved her. Typical Julian Fellowes script, a lot of melodrama, a bit of period detail and a pinch of social comment. I love it though! I managed to catch up with Homeland and New Tricks as well, which took me to breakfast. As they forecast rain we went to the chemist straight after breakfast to fetch some of my meds as well as try to buy a cream made of comfrey. I remembered buying a tub of the stuff sometime in the 80's and that it was black and a miracle worker. Alex went flying off his bike, really wrecking his knee and this cream made it better in no time. Well, it costs about 10 times more for about a fifth of the quantity, plus it is now white, but so many people recommended it for my knee injury from Sunday and I thought I might invest in a tube of it.

Well, it seemed to have made it better already, so it must be a miracle worker. The plant itself looks like a common weed that grows along streams (see on the left!). I read up on it on Wikipedia and it really cures a lot of complaints, but you mustn't drink it as tea as it is toxic to your liver. Well, as long as I can run again in just under two weeks in the next O event, I don't care! Now I have to go and tidy up and then cook as we have guests tonight. Report on that later!