The Eyes Have It

Miserable start to the day, as I had to walk down to the hospital to see my eye consultant. Looks like I am back on the waiting list for another operation, where they will tighten my lower left eyelid with a diamond cut in the outside corner, have elasticised plastic stiched into the lid, and have its tearduct moved and enlargened. Tick tock tick tock...

Nice walk to the bus station then, where my mood lifted slightly with some beautiful scenes and one of my best seaglass finds:  

I really need to shake off these December blues though 😒

Mist

 

Sunday Shananigins

Had myself a lovely Rum down the Patti Pavilion, before heading for a family Vegan Sunday lunch. Excellent staff and service in both establishments:

Our vegan Sunday Roast was had at Ground Plant Based Coffe, owned by Helen Wilson, made famous at this year's Glastonbury Festival, when she live-streamed Kneecap's apparently controversial (they supported the end of Israel's genocide of Palestine) performance...

The seitan steak meal was tovdie dor, and thankfully no intelligent, sentient and emotional lifeforms had to do to delight our tastebuds and fill our bellies ☺️☺️☺️☺️

We ended our afternoon with a visit to town, where we bought our daughter her birthday present and shared a beverage in the Swansea's Christmas market:

A Swansea Seagull

Whilst in town, we tookbthe opportunity to explore the new City Library, which opened in the old BHS store:

Another Swansea Seagull

Finally, before returning home, we raised a glass, or 4, at one of my favourite pubs before heading home for the evening:

The Winter Wonderland

Oh, we also sorted our Crimbo Day meal by picking these up from the market's Vegan Brontosaurus store:

Christmas Tree Time

After picking up this year's Cheistmas tree, we lowered into a but of water and let it soak we headed down to Mumbles for a family cocktail:

Other sights encountered along the way included:

Returning home, it was the decorating time:

The Lego Christmas decoration we have been working on these past few days

Precious baubles made by my first-born

And here it is is!

The Observatory

Had a deliceously hearty family meal at The Observatory this afternoon, braving a strong Swansea gale, which belted us with sand and wind-strewn salt to do so.

And just look at this mighty spiral staircase, which used to lead up to the huge telescope bust now houses rentable accommodation:

Halloween at the Hospital

Hospital day, where covering dermatologist said department is too busy to provide bespoke letters for employers. "That's was Occ Health Employee Services are for," were her exact words. She did say they would post me copies of my consultant letters to hand in though, but god knows when I can expect to see them. Unfortunately, the weather was harsh and took its toll on my face, which triggered more pain for me. I was too self conconscious to  take public transport though. Grrr. Here are some Swansea scenes I pictured on the walk though:

Mrs P.L.'s Walking Challenge: Day 30

Tonight was the final night of my better half's walking challenge. Leaving the house at 6.30, we got home at two minutes to midnight to maximise her step. Here are tonight's pics from the walk.

This friendly feline was a firm favourite sight of this evening's 23k step challenge.

The Brunswick was the penultimate beverage of the month-long step count. Very quiet tonight, but a real cosy boozer.

We then headed to the No-Sign so Mrs P.L. could finally taster her fist Murphy's in years.

The bartender lit the fire for which, which although was a little too comforting...

...Which meant we had to skidaddle to make every step count by walking all the way home by midnight. This was not helped by tonight being the start of Divali, which illuminated Swansea Bay by a mesmerising display of firework.

Reaching The Uplands, the lateness of the hour made us forego our planned last beverage of the night and up our pace dramatically as we hit the hill!

I was exhausted by the time we made it to our door and piled into our house. My ring-toes were sore on each foot, but Mrs P.L. was happy with the final step count. And despite the enjoyment and cool sights of the past 30 nights, we were both looking forward to spending some evenings at home 🙂