Clouds in the back of your Eyes

 A skin doc, a dentist and a registrar walked into a room. The patient was told from the bridge of your nose down to the tip of your toes we've done the tests that everyone knows. We do get caught out with the optometry notes, the way that they word it, their eye ball quotes.  So we'll forget the clouds at the back of the eyes and try a new pill and try a new size.  Your system will moderate, it will not be supressed, we'll see you in four weeks, you'll be impressed.

Some of these meetings are quite over the top and it is never will the same derm team.

Hackers

 We have been locked out of a MyGov account because someone has tried multiple times to get into it. We have had a lot of activity in these accounts recently and it makes you think if someone notices that then this could be a time to try breaking in.  That website is huge and we have been in there linking it together with the taxman, with medicare and now with centrelink to get our health cards.  I had to do something new the other day with a two way medicare claim and it seems the $1000 that we were sent from BUPA never made it to our account.  So an investigation has been underway but we have not heard where the money went. Is it all a coincidence? Debbie was able to recover by setting new access.

Beach Comb No 811

 The wind was up two days back and that can only mean one thing more wrack and more ruin in the form of trash that is.  I also spied a complete cover of fresh green shoots that had washed up before they had a chance to be rolled into canon balls. Also spiky puffer fish, the ugliest fish in the bay and there were at least four fresh ones rolled up by the waves. I filled the rubbish bag to the brim. There was one can and one bottle, plus the usual rope pieces, plastic tops, many plastic bags this time, as well as paper wrappers and three drinking straws. 

green scene

beach pearls

The Card of Health

 Yes I now have a card to prove I am healthy and if there is a sore spot some where then I can rub this card on it.  So now that I have spent weeks getting this card how can it be used? The chemist is the obvious one. Too bad I did not have this a month ago when my appendix was playing up or when the finger stitching was happening as both of those had large out of pocket up front charges. Yadayada.  At least we have these going forward. We have a forced our way into a hospital clinic tomorrow so maybe that will be the first chance to wave this card. We need another way to address pembro side effects. 

 

Dijon

 Tour de Femmes is time trialing into Dijon and we spent a few days at the Chateau de Gilly half way between Dijon and Beaune.  We also took rides in both directions to visit those towns.  In Beaune we toured the historic hospital with its tiled roof  as well as getting there in time for the morning market. In Dijon it was mustard mecca, not that I go in for it but if you are in Dijon then you must muster for mustard. The chateau was the first we had tried in France with precise gardens and the wine menu so thick it had its own table.

Longer ride

We have got to get a few kms in on the bike as I have worked a couple of rides for next week.  We stopped at the train station and found a rider there who had just moved in from NSW to be closer to the grand kids. Sounds familiar.  She needed three bedrooms, two bathrooms, fruit trees. solar panels, water tanks, a large backyard and a tin roof, preferably not rusted. Seems you can get just the house you need around here. We continued on, without any bird bombers. The last distraction was the Q train manouvring its way into the yard for the lunch time crowd.

Geneva Shore

 Tour de France has been riding around Lake Geneva again and doing so for the last two days.  They have been doing it in the opposite direction to us which is fine with closed roads. The big tip for this ride is to keep the water on your right as you go around. We found a lot of shoreline paths and off road areas but there are road sections.  The vineyards coming down to the waters edge got us distracted. We found an eaterie overlooking the water and had a way too long three hour lunch.  We paid for that later when getting into Lausanne a bit late. The riders sprinted up the few kms from the shore to the city centre whereas we took the train for a two hour explore before getting back on the bikes. 

packed what we could into two panniers for three days

rolling vineyards

Lausanne biggest Swiss flag ever