Blood test

From http://ianrstewart.blogspot.com/

Working from home today because I had to go see the nurse at noon for a blood test, following my visit to the Doctor yesterday. He wants to eliminate the possibility of a particular bacteria - Helicobacter Pylori it's called (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori). Seems that half the world's population have it. Should get the results in a couple of days. Assuming negative, then it's the specialist and endoscopy for me.

Got a call last night that the loft insulation men are arriving this afternoon, so it's just as well I'm at home, or Jo would have had to forgo her trip to Inverurie to see Liz, Carole and poor little sick Luca this afternoon. By coincidence our new loft ladder arrived yesterday - just in time. The instructions for fitting look pretty complicated, so it could be that we just use it as a simple ladder for a while and don't bother screwing it in to the loft.

Oh - and I went to the Royal Mail sorting office to pick up a couple of small parcels they tried to deliver last week. One was a book for my holidays - The Art of Fielding, a debut novel by Chad Harbach (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9012593/The-Art-of-Fielding-by-Chad-Harbach-review.html) that was featured as Radio Two's Book of the Week not long ago - so I thought I'd take it to Oz with me. The other parcel contained the bits to fix our leaking shower - all we need to do now is get Ross' pal, Dan to fit them. He's still waiting for our order for new ceramic ware for our downstairs loo - Jo can't quite find what she wants yet.

That's about all for now - back to my work now.