Thank God for That

So the Labour Party has had the good sense to back Brown after all. Good idea, seeing as there is nobody else of anything like such stature. Now they need to get back to work and stop fiddling their expenses.

Just been listening to a programme on Radio 4 saying that any alcohol, even a couple of units a week, is carcinogenic.  Dear oh dear, are there going to be no pleasures left in life? I was enjoying a glass of red while listening to the programme.

Went to the doctor about my blue/purple legs. It had dawned on me that I have only had such terrible circulation since the start of taking Atenolol, the beta blocker which the medics put me on after the heart attack about 3 years ago. I might add here that everybody who has a heart attack gets put on them, along with statins (which deplete Co-enzyme Q10), an aspirin a day to thin the blood and a couple of other things. Handy for the makers of these 5 items, methinks. I wonder who in NICE has shares in any of them. Looked up Atenolol and poor circulation and lo and behold it can cause the problem. The doc agreed and I am slowly giving up the Atenolol. I am only on the lowest dose. Hopefully all the fish oils and garlic I take will keep my BP nice and stable. Also going to try red vine leaf in tablet form. That’s supposed to improve the micro-circulation – presumably that means in the capillaries. Ascertained that my arteries are ok by a doppler test so coming off Atenolol should be ok. I have warned my family that I may be less dozy in the near future.

My daughter is looking at flats, with a view to buying one. Gone are the days of the 10% deposit. If you want a mortgage now, post credit crunch, you need 25%. How can young people find such large sums of money? In spite of this problem, flats in Brighton are moving as fast as s*** off a shovel, as my son would say, so somebody is able to find it. At one point in the last few years, you could borrow more than 100%. Those days are gone for good, I’m afraid.