From a child, as a Duttson, I have been aware that our family motto is Dum Spiro Spero meaning while I breathe, I hope, or loosely with breath, life. I have just watched a documentary about the Royal Treasures of England which included a volume of Shakespeare which
was read by Charles I when he was in prison, a month before he was beheaded, and
on the fly leaf there is, in his writing, the motto dum spiro spero written and
signed by him and it was recognised as his motto. So where the devil did my family get it from I wonder? Now just Googled and the motto goes back to Roman
times apparently and is also the motto of the State of South Carolina. It also is, apparently, the motto of many families so I guess anyone can appropriate a motto wherever it comes from. One of my cousins commented that the motto meant - with breath, life - or trust the bloody Duttson's to hold on. Think I will have to do some research, we have a family crest too, I wonder where that came from? There are only a few Duttson's left these days.
With regard to my computer problems, I managed to send an email to my computer guy. Never expected a response whilst he was away, but he says he will be back on Wednesday and can come on Thursday or Friday. Hurrah.
Managed to get hold of the urologist too, they are now sending me to the hospital's Infectious Diseases dept. plus sending me for an ultra sound. Lovely. I hope this won't be too far in the future. I am somewhat tired of this waterworks problem. I also phoned to make an appointment with the vascular surgeon in 6 month's time, apparently they already have me down on some kind of schedule and will phone me, probably in March, they said.
We didn't go bowling this aft. On the radio they were yapping about freezing rain and Matt refused to go out, we got some kind of precipitation but it sure wasn't freezing rain. We could have gone, but.... So we will probably go some afternoon this week. Tomorrow we have our foot nurse and Wednesday we have lunch at the Mandarin with a friend, first visit since I was taken ill in October. Looking forward to it. Today, I forgot to mention, my physiotherapist came for her last visit. I am feeling positively abandoned now having had all these people visiting me - especially when they all seemed to come at once.
Nope, no recipe, sorry, too difficult. You will have to wait til my desktop is fixed.
Have a great day
With regard to my computer problems, I managed to send an email to my computer guy. Never expected a response whilst he was away, but he says he will be back on Wednesday and can come on Thursday or Friday. Hurrah.
Managed to get hold of the urologist too, they are now sending me to the hospital's Infectious Diseases dept. plus sending me for an ultra sound. Lovely. I hope this won't be too far in the future. I am somewhat tired of this waterworks problem. I also phoned to make an appointment with the vascular surgeon in 6 month's time, apparently they already have me down on some kind of schedule and will phone me, probably in March, they said.
We didn't go bowling this aft. On the radio they were yapping about freezing rain and Matt refused to go out, we got some kind of precipitation but it sure wasn't freezing rain. We could have gone, but.... So we will probably go some afternoon this week. Tomorrow we have our foot nurse and Wednesday we have lunch at the Mandarin with a friend, first visit since I was taken ill in October. Looking forward to it. Today, I forgot to mention, my physiotherapist came for her last visit. I am feeling positively abandoned now having had all these people visiting me - especially when they all seemed to come at once.
Nope, no recipe, sorry, too difficult. You will have to wait til my desktop is fixed.
Have a great day
