Is me woe ? Is woe me ?

/ MR

There must be a correct interrogative version of ‘woe is me’, mustn’t there ? I mean, surely we can turn any statement into a question ..?    😉 (Sometimes I amaze even myself with my wittiness. Heh heh.)

But anyway, the answer is a firm ‘NO !’. I have bronchitis, and have been building up to it for more than a week till this point, when I’m coughing incessantly (and it’s – as they say, somewhat disgustingly – ‘productive’). But really that’s all: just the coughing and the product and the endlessness of it all: my throat isn’t sore and a headache comes and goes, and I’m not feverish. Yet I think it has to be bronchitis rather than a cold or certainly the ‘flu.

So what is my post about ?!

I believe it’s about my late-in-life willingness to admit that really, things are pretty bloody good; that in spite of the decrepitude (and currently the phlegm ..) and the inability to get my hair bleaching right, I don’t have a lot to complain about.

I’m almost sure that I’m on the verge of my final move, and it looks like I’ll know on Tuesday when the staff of Community Housing Ltd come back to work. While they’ve been holidaying riotously the staff of Horizon Housing Realty have had their noses to the grindstone – well, one of ’em has, anyway – and calling me often to follow up various aspects of my application. I am decidedly sanguine about my chances.

I and my younger sister, who were not always on the best of terms (largely to do with political issues, but not solely), have buried every difference and are fast friends. Which is Just As Well, seeing as how we was bofe raised the same and tend to quote from the same sources – Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne and Norman Lindsay, e.g. – and is also something for which to be heartily grateful ! Not to overlook a recent discovery of cousins, down there in Brighton East; children of a brother of my father’s – the eldest female and the youngest male (and his lady) – who are absolutely lovely. (Note to self: remember your editor’s admonishments regarding adverbs, M-R !!)

I know I am a regular whinger – and I have no comprehension of how anyone tolerates it ! – but try as I might I’m unable to find anything to whinge about at this time.

[pause while she scratches her head ..]

Nup. Even though xmas was spent coughing and it kept waking up Da Boodsta sleeping in his NEW VERSION of cat-tree-with-round-thingy-on-the-top, we both managed to get through it without a cross word. I did several times wonder how insane I would’ve driven Stringer with the coughing, had he been here. I can only think he would’ve been obliged to take to me with a ball pein hammer after several days .. WOT a good thing, then, that he isn’t. See ? – positives abound !!

So, my dears, this is your horribly ancient blogger signing off for 2023 in a sunny mood and with one last fusillade of coughs.

May you not over-celebrate on Sunday night. May your chickens remain their normal size so as to find it impossible to do any kicking down of dunny doors. May you be sensible and not make a single resolution for 2024. May the times become as dull as ditchwater overnight.

I love yous all.

19 thoughts on “Is me woe ? Is woe me ?”

  1. Love youse too! I’m impressed … a non-whingey email when you have something to whinge about. I do hope you start 2024 with chest clear and I also hope you have your LAST move confirmed. Thanks for another entertaining year of blogging and commenting. I look forward to more in 2024.

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    • I believe the reason I have so few followers is the dearth of sites I follow. In the incarnation of my blog that accompanied the publication of a book I had several thousand people ‘following’ me, and that was why I gave it up back around 2014.
      (Of course, for every thousand followers there are in reality about 20—50 who actively do so ..)
      In truth, I follow the blogs of those whose subject matter is of particular interest to me. And since my husband’s death, international travel has fallen from grace.
      Nevertheless, you have some excellent images !

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    • Thanks, small clever one ! – but honestly, for once I’m not complaining. 🙂
      I like the peace in your wishes. Same to you and DH .. oh, and those two moggies, Bisquet and Calvin !!

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  4. Woe is you. You have my deepest sympathy on that cough. Bad coughs are so exhausting, Hope you ditch yours post haste so you can enjoy the new year’s arrival and the prospect of new digs to come.

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  5. Most civil of yer, Colorado my love ! Exhausting is indeed the best adjective (although ‘infuriating’ is another !). I am more excited than I probably should be; but having the Property Manager call me on almost a daily basis can only add fuel to the fire, eh ? 😀

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  7. I hope you’re feeling much better soon, M-R. But your overall gratitude for life as it is comes as a delight to hear as it is already 2024 for you. We have another 7 hours yet, but the countdown begins. I wish you a wonderful new year and a new home soon! Your sister sounds like a she’s become a good friend. Treasure that! ❤️

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  8. This is the longest ailment I’ve had, Deb ! – I’m still coughing a bit (but less), and have now started sneezing ! And it’s been going on since Friday week ago. Jesus ! – how I look forward to farewelling the whole damned thing, so that I can just get into moving and all its delights ! [grin]
    We’ll share a lot more in 2024, I know. ❤

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