The past few days have sped by, occupied with office and shopping visits plus another visit on Tuesday from Clive Powell of double glazing specialists Secura Windows, who upgraded our house eleven years ago. New house insurance terms and conditions are insisting on higher specification front door security. The only way it can be achieved is installing a new door. The trade catalogue presents a bewildering array of styles, furnishing and glazing. Settling on an overall choice wasn't too difficult, as ever the devil is in the detail, getting a glazing design we think we can live with. It took a couple of days until we were both satisfied. Clive is very patient.
I made a phone call during his visit from the middle room, and turning around to face the window as I talked, noticed a jagged diagonal crack from top to bottom of the inner double glazed panel opposite. Such a strange co-incidence! Both Clare and I recalled hearing a sharp cracking sound, like a stone or a bird beak on a window, shortly before Clive arrived, but neither of us thought to investigate at the time, thinking it came from outside, from a neighbour's house. Clive said he'd come across this before in cold weather, though not very often. We were at least able to order a replacement there and then, knowing that he'd have the original information in his filing system from eleven years ago when the job was done.
Thursday morning a visit to the GP surgery for a blood pressure check, leading to an increase in dosage of the supplementary medication I was given last week, as it seems to have had no impact at all. The pharmacist said that getting a suitably effective dosage was still a matter of trial and error as every individual responds in different ways. Different physical constitution, metabolism, diet, environment, all play their part. It's amusing really.
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