Bleeding Friday

I went to give blood on Friday - for the first time since September 1994 - so I'm feeling rather virtuous now. I moved house in November 1994 at which point the blood donor service stopped sending me reminders to attend (did I not tell them I'd moved?). I was also working in places where going out for one to two hours to donate was NOT encouraged. So, now I've recovered from my surgery last year and I'm fit to donate again. If you not seen the Hancock Blood Donor sketch then I urge you to watch it. It MAY be available on YouTube or you may find that you have to buy, rent or borrow it on DVD (or download it from a torrent site if you don't mind breaking the copyright laws). There was some fun and games: my sample was tested for iron by being dripped into copper suphate. Of course my sample didn't just drop like it is supposed to: mine went half way down and then came back up again. They had to do the test 3 times and use a new vial of copper suphate before it worked. It took several minutes for them to find a vein they could use to draw the blood too but all went well after that and I managed to get home in time to take my good lady wife to the Doctor's. 

She has been having some complications with regard to the pain relief that she is on but the GP was able to prescribe some ointment and stuff so that's all good.

We went out for our usual walk a bit later on - leaving home at 7 pm, we met a neighbour on the way back and stopped to chat: so we got back home at 9 pm!