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Good afternoon, Rosalind!
I only know that one of my liver levels was slightly elevated and all the other measurements for my other organs were "very good", my nurse said.
So, that'll do for me!

Good afternoon, Elle!
It's a great day here!
I have been busy copying my photos and it has been enjoyable!
Sent some across the water, too!
I know what French fries are, but you have me with the Sicilian crepes?
I have heard of the Sicilian Vespers, though.
Now, In all the multitude of the tests they give me every year, I pass with flying colours, except this year on liver ALT.
It is slightly elevated and Doc says it is to do with a statin, and nothing to worry about, and we retested today.
My nurse mentioned my several cholesterol readings were "excellent".
She told me the readings, but I have not remembered them, as she was very pleased with overall picture.
And I have no idea about LDL or things like that.
I trust my practice to keep me right.
Amen!

Hi, Rusty!
We have been doing a bit of gardening!
The lawn is somewhat sparse after the winter.......
It is not helped by the trees overshadowing some of the grass....... and the dog digging holes!
And the local soil is terrible! Nothing much will grow.........
We have bought some lawn thickening something or other......child and pet friendly !
And some huge bags of top soil, in the hope of improving the flower beds.
Let us hope for a good effect!
My fuchsia in the pots on the patio are coming into bud....maybe a little early?
I hope no frost will kill them off.
I am in now, though, for the remainder of the evening ....enough labour!
Oops! I have just noticed the time...and realised that it is Thursday......
Probably you have you son visiting you at the moment......
I hope you both enjoy a good chat!

Good evening, Elle!
You have been busy in the garden.
Well done!
Hope you get a good downpour to help things along.
Hopefully we are past the frost!
Yes, my son was here.
Had a grand time.
We had a salmon fishing programme on television, on BBC Alba, in Gaelic.
It was very good.
My son knows the lady who presented the programme.
Good puzzle today.
I had a guess at 5d, and it turned out to be a word, right enough!

Hi, Rusty!
The warmer weather and the sunshine made us want to do some gardening!
But the soil problem in our area does make it difficult.
That is why I like to have so many pot plants on my patio!
I am very successful with my fuchsias...I had twenty-seven pots/ hanging baskets last year!
They were beautiful.
Now the crossword.....
I had "innit" for 5a?
Not a word I had come across - read or heard - before....
But easy enough to get from the parsing?
Do people really say that?!
Good Friday tomorrow........

Course they do, elle, innit?

You might be interested in this Guardian clue, which irritated me:
24 Girl going up and down (4)

Obviously it was going to be a palindrome. I immediately thought of ANNA and ELLE, so couldn't enter either without crossers. It turned out to be ANNA. The point, though, is that I thought that there must be lots of 4-letter palindromic girls' names, so I Googled. Various sites found ANNA......but not ELLE!

Hello, Elle!
I think that was a good idea your husband and you had, to improve the soil.
Can only tilt things in your favour?
5d, was an easy solve, but then whatever did it mean!
It is on my Chambers Dictionary app.
They say it is a contraction of "isn't it" and "mere oral punctuation" and I am no wiser!
It is a new word to me too, Elle, and not a word I have heard used.
I do not think our schools are off tomorrow, are yours?

Update, Elle!
Here's what Collins makes of "innit"!
If you click on the wee red speaker you can hear the pronunciation of the word.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/innit

I am going to concentrate in ASDA tomorrow to see if I hear anyone say it!

Good Friday Morning, Rusty!
Wow, I think Summer has arrived!
It was a tad chilly out walking first thing, but the sun is very warm now, and we are well into double figures, with a promised high of 19C for this afternoon.
I hope you have similar........or even better?
The schools here have been closed for the Easter holidays since April 5th..........the children go back next Tuesday, the 23rd.
Do you not have similar to this up in Scotland?
I hadn't realised that "innit" is a contraction of "isn't it"?
I wonder if it is a Cockney expression?
I have never heard it used.
What are you up to today?



Hello, Chris!
I found "Elle" on a few sites offering up palindromic girls' names...... here is one:
https://aptparenting.com/palindrome-names-for-your-baby
However, "Elle" is not my name.........it is merely a phonetic representation of the letter "L" , which is the initial of my forename.

Good morning, Elle!
Lovely day here!
Our promised high is 14C. That'll do me!
The school holidays vary here.
The Dundee, Angus, Perth, and Perthshire, holidays are all different.
No idea why. I don't think the Dundee schools are off for Easter.
And Miss O went back to school on Monday, in Perth, as their Spring holiday was over.
No "innit" in ASDA today, anyway!
I am going to be copying more photo's into my Google Photos.
And I came across the last ever birthday card from my Dad to me, so I'll photo that too, for posterity!
His writing is very distinctive and it will be a nice keepsake.