15 + 1

Not yet having any photographs for the fifteenth anniversary I could not help but put up this one from our tenth, just to tide over those dreadful days as we wait to see the record of how much older we now look!

Yesterday, when I was off, we first went to Mount E, this being another occasion when it was for Alice and not for me. It is rather nice that the efforts made to date are clearly having an effect and reducing the number of my trips to get painkillers, MCs and the like. But unfortunately Alice has had to wait a few days for the results of certain tests, including those in connection with her heart. So it was a most pleasant visit as all tests are proving that she is fine, and her having cut down on the caffeine has removed some of the most worrisome of the symptoms sufficiently that she was back playing tennis this morning while I was back at work.

With such good news we went for a stroll in the Botanical Gardens, walking up by the Halia but staying very definitely outside (until we can afford it again!). This allowed me to check whether there was a better parking place on the road outside to shorten the walk in. This can be necessary when, as on the anniversary, we were all dolled up and the rain was fair piddling down. And guess what, my belief that we could park better, a belief that Alice did not share and hence made us park further away on the anniversary, was proven correct. But then I am male so do things like read maps!

And as we came back towards the main entrance we stopped at the fast food joint and had a well-deserved double scoop of ice-cream (lemon-lime in my case) a fine end to our anniversary celebrations.