Monday, August 3

Today was my last day

at the Brain Surgery

I arrived early. There is a broken bench on a paved area in front of the surgery. It was sunny so I made tea then came back outside, balanced a bum cheek on the wobbly seat and ate my breakfast marmalade sandwich.

Tattoo man has removed the big pieces of junk he used to keep in front of the Surgery including all the pieces of kitchen that were torn out two weeks ago. What remained was a tumbleweedy wilderness of food packaging, broken flowerpots, lumps of dried cement, rotted wood bits, paint scrapings and rusty screws. Long weeds grew between the pavers.

A plastic bag dancing on the wind would have completed the picture but my breakfast bag was pressed into service as a glove so that I could clear away the rubbish and pull out the weeds. My search for a sweeping device in the Surgery yielded a stumpy circular hoover-attachment brush and the final crumbs of rubbish were shooshed into my glove bag at exactly the moment the first patient arrived. We had our last morning together the Brain Doctor and I, then our last lunch. The last patient was one of my favourites, a woman who always puts her child on my lap so that we can draw spiders while she sees the Brain Doctor.

Now I'm off to Edinburgh, another cat ... and the festival!!!




10 comments:

  1. I will miss the Brain Doctor. I hope he does well.

    Enjoy the Festival! I was there two years ago and the city was all abuzz with art, activities, and visitors.

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    1. just about to head into town -will report any interesting occurrences

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  2. Does the marmalade sandwich have a stinky cheese on it? It sounds delicious. Did you make the marmalade yourself? Do you pronounce it marmalahd or marmalaid as we do here in the states? The brain doctor is going to be helpless without you. Very excited for the next chapter in your adventures.
    love,
    Rebecca of the Questions

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    1. Marmalaid but no stinky cheese. The BD has the much-more-capable-than-me Rabbit to take care of him

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  3. Ooh! Is the cat to be part of the Festival?
    The Brain Doctor has yielded some entertaining tales...I wonder what will come next?

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    1. Cat may well be part of festval Dinah.The not knowing may be more exciting than the actuality

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  4. I just heart all of this writing of yours.

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  5. Does the Brain Doctor have oversized, foam hands? I thought so. Please report any and all other appearances of plastic appendages and/or undersized dinosaurs to Box 747, Suffragette City.

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    1. His oversize foam hands are surgically attached, along with 2 extra sets of arms, he also likes to be called Spiderhandyman

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