At last it works

So today I finally figured out how to use the system I installed another version of and it will remove duplicate messages easily. As all my posts to Ixion arrive doubled up and loads of us have had a look I am pleased that this works

Monday Shopping

And we had to go to Morrison's and spend some petty cash on bog roll for them, bleach etc

Back

And some small chap walked up to and knocked my front door s'morning. I didn't recognise him as it is so long since I have seen him bit it was SmallPaul back from holiday

Winner

And I enjoyed another game of Solitaire yesterday

OK, I only took this pic in case I won a backgammon afterwards and I lost by 6 dooferdingles

Sorry, correct link now

Geek T-shirt

And as we were leaving the match yesterday someone spotted my shirt and said "Yes, I know..." 

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Email At Cricket

And when I was going out all day I switched off my PC when I was going out. As it was off all the days Ixion emails came to me phone. I read them at odd moments in the day and in the car on the way home. As I read them on phone they did not arrive here which I guess was OK as long as I figure how to forward precious copies here but I think that's the way. If I want to have it here, on my PC, I shall forward it, when my PC is back up and running

Finished Match

And they finished the match and won by roughly 80 runs. It was the first time I have seen one of these limited overs matches and it was actually reasonably good. A bit strange having to wear my glasses but they did help

Re: Cricketing

And they are making those English Folks look silly

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Cricketing

And Glamorgan have scored 76 off 10 overs against Leicestershire already

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Cricket

And I am going to the Cricket with Gareth later....

Off in a couple of hours now...

Variety Dinner

So as a kind of dinner that we don't have every week I cooked an omelette(1) tonight, with some supernoodles. They were both delicious but I am not sure how together they go

(1) With onion, fried first, mushroom, cheese but not the tomato I bought yesterday for that purpose

Nipping Out

So I said to Edwina "Can we nip to Tesco's and try and get some of those lollies that I like?". He said "No, 1 day last week when u couldn't get them in Morrison's we went to Tesco's and they did not have any either, they must have stopped making them or summat"

So I said "Can we go and look for summat else please?"

So he took me and I got some Cadbury's Nuts About Caramel lollies which while being nice aren't quite as nice a the original, but I will have to grin and bear it

Onion

So I was looking in my freezer for the bag of frozen chopped onion yesterday. Couldn't see it, couldn't remember throwing away the bag as it was finished either so I called Alex, he looked, neither of us could see it. So emergency shopping trip to Morrison's, bought some

Brought it back, opened the freezer to put it away and what was sitting at the front of the drawer that both of us had looked in?

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Shopping More

Well, my Mum phoned me tonight and said "Can u get a card for Ian (your brotherin law, who helped u out loads when u moved here) for his 60th birthday. Needs posting tomorrow morning" so I thought "Nip to Morrison's", then I thought as I am going to cricket on Sunday I won't be able to do my weeks shopping so may as well get my weeks shopping tonight so I did

Confusion and rearrangement

So I had to go to the Drs s'morning and tried loads of breathing into the tube for a woman called Jacqui who not only tested me but responded positively to flirts.

She said "We will write to you and tell u the outcomes but I want to see you again, it's nice"

After that we tried shopping earlier in Aardvark and it worked, and they have their veg delivered on a Thursday so at a guess from next week it has been changed on my timetable to shopping Friday morning as there is no time after gym(1) to eat, bath, nap and go to Aardvark so I think next week we will shop in't morning

(1) Gym, yes I have been much too busy to go today.

Clever Freya

Then s'evening I was guested by my very clever daughter. Gosh, is she mine as she is so clever, 6A*, 2A and 4B's. She can't be mine

Summer again

Gosh, yesterday I had to wear another garment but today it is back to just t-shirt, summer has come back

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Trysordy

So I went off and did my bit s'morning. Today I was inputting data about members into the PC. It has worn me out loads so bed early then that Freya, who is obviously cleverer than me is coming over to gloat about O-level results

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No Breakfast Tomorrow

So tomorrow I have gotta have NO breakfast as I am going to the docs first thing for some checkups 

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FTP crisis

So I made up another web page then panicked, I couldn't remember how to upload it.
Panic over, Alex said......, so thank f**k I remember again

In't Pub

Tonight I said "Pub" and came into town. Watching football... can't we just drink

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Pissing

So we went out and had an ice cream s'afternoon then we called into Morrison's. I called in for a piss there and frankly it astonished me how long I was pissing for. I know I said summat like this a while ago but I am still getting better

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Cake-ing

So, as she was abroad for her birthday, today I am going to complete Freya's birthday cake, all it needs doing is butter creaming and icing, so hopefully it will taste really good. Hopefully. It is the first cake I have made for anyone in a number of years so hopefully.......

Learning HTML

So today I figured out how to do an HTML advanced version of one of my pages, I think it seems like a simple operation but I can't find a simple explanation anywhere. If u have a clue can u get in touch, please

Aargh

Then that Denyse lady phoned me s'afternoon and, amongst other stuff, said she had read in my Blog that I was eating chocolate with honeycomb in it but I mustn't because that was in the list of things I may choke on.

Hoo-flipping-ray

Gym

Off to gym in a bit.....

(and I will see that Sam there....)

Double gosh. I was sweating by the time I finished today. And I met an old member of that class, who lives half a street away from me, just a bit up the street

Awful Night

So I had a dreadful nightmare last night, it involved a body that no-one noticed so they just drove over it etc then, after that, I couldn't get back to sleep so I was in bed for about 3 hours awake before my alarm clock got me up

Ice Cream

And I have just made some and it was delicious

Still is in fact, there are another 2 or 3 portions to go

Sara Physio

So Sara(h) the physio came for her monthly visit and a) Walked 2/3 of the way up the road with me, then b) Did loads and loads of stretches

Winner

Backgammon immediately after a solitaire win

Shopping

So me and Gareth nipped off to Wilkinson's to fetch more gloves for doing my feet and we also found some Old Fashioned Sweets which I bought. I haven't tried them yet but by lord, my memories......

Well I have tried 'em now, I am on my fourth from the bag now and what can I say, I remembered them as being nice and I was right

Alt

And as described in the Tesco section I finally figured out (helped by Timmy) how to use the Alt codes to insert a ¼

Tesco

Oh dear. So we decided to go to the supermarket tonight to get my weeks shopping. We were ¼ of the way there when my MOS said "Oh, look at the time, they will be shut" so in the end we dragged ourselves to Tesco's and bought loads there

Miller

And gosh but it is rainy and very windy today, the top of the bird feeder has just blown off and I had to send my MOS to fetch it back

Rugger

Australia vs New Zealand on Sky Sport 4 ATM

All Black's 47 Australia 29 in the end

I Won

And this evening I won another game of solitaire, I was obviously not so "Used to winning" as I thought

Shopping

Then we nipped out to Aardvark. But first we called in at the chemist which said they would deliver my cream s'morning, and I sat in't car while Gareth went in and came back out 10 mins later having just spoken to the delivery driver who was on his way, said "Next door" to Gareth so we got it when we came back

Then we nipped to Aardvark done my weeks shopping etc etc as usual.

Then we nipped into Wilkinson's to buy some printer paper for the staff PC (and  some Honeycomb for me, but we seem to have bought everything they own in that dept)

Then we called in to Morrison's to pick up some blueberries. While we were there I thought "Ah, need a few couscous" but found it was half price so bought a load 

Then I thought "Oh, Timmy too" so went looking for super noodles too, found them buy 5 get 1 free so we added 6 to my basket too.

In general I will still need to go back on Sunday and pick up my weeks top up but spent nearly £20 in there a few days before

Gym

And gym was as crazy and hard work as it has been for a number of weeks now

Alex

And while we were heading for gym today we bumped into Alex Court an old friend of mine,  who was working for Leonrd Cheshire last time I saw him

Super Power

And next Friday I need to be somewhere half an hour before Alex is due to come in, but Gareth (who he is taking over from) said "No, because I am going on holiday that day we have already arranged for him to come in an hour early"

Phew

And I have won again now. Gosh my wins aren't coming close together but it happened

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I won

And at last on Thursday night I won my first game of Solitaire since Tuesday night

Thank lord, I was beginning to think I must be stupid. 48 hours or so

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Oops

And we had to go out s'afternoon to buy, eventually - in the second place we called, a birthday cake carrier for Freya to take home the cake I made for her

Trysordy

So I went to Trysordy and today we had loads to do with an Acucut machine, winding the handle and it made tat into useful (saleable) bits

Solitaire

Gosh, sitting at the breakfast table I have just lost 3 games of solitaire. It is now Thursday morning, I played loads yesterday and I haven't won a game since Tuesday night

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Dinner Time Strangeness

And for dinner tonight, which was delicious, we had Quorn fillets with couscous which tasted lovely separately, the usual way I eat my dinner, but actually tasted at their best if you got a small piece of fillet on your fork then scooped some couscous on next to it, together

Early

So we are getting ready for my early gym session today. It is just after handover so my foot will have to be done BEFORE handover to my MOS for today

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Gosh, that all went well but it was 2 minutes after 10.30 when we arrived and they had already started. All day my Bioness didn't seem to be working properly, dunno, but....

Cycling

And we have just been to the summer cycling temp place and it was OK. I had to stop early and complain as my right foot wasn't positioned properly but hopefully that won't happen next time. They were short of bikes tho as they hadn't brought too many to the temp place and we arrived just after a load of visitors

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Treat

And the postman brought my treat from Treat.com s'morning. It said on their site "First delivery free, cost after that" so last night, after they told me they had sent my freebie I went online and spent ages looking for ways to unsubscribe.

It wasn't easy but I found it in the end

And I have eaten 2 of the 4 packets so far and on both of them if said "Only x calories contained" which was nice

Won Twice

And recently my life has been full of games, Solitaire and Backgammon mostly. I have won then both in the past but tonight I played one, won it, played the other and won it too (which is quite unusual for backgammon, I usually lose that)!!!

Slackbladder

I am watching a comedy series from my youth and enjoying it loads

More Reasons To Shop At... (-- clickable link)

So we nipped to Morrison's and bought some cheesy bread rolls which were t'only thing we couldn't get on Friday when we did the extra shopping

Colour Blogging

So I was trying to BlogUp some Large Words With Colour Round 'Em, but it looked like this, all small coloured patch, so I thought about it again and again and thought "Ah, size in the colour thingy?" and it worked, well readable

Out&About

So I said to Edweena that there is a new poster on my wall saying "Neil should be out every day" so where shall we go today, but he said "It's a weekend day" so we went nowhere

Blik Coffee (2)

And I am enjoying black coffee even more now

Watching

Gosh, I am watching Bridget Jones's Diary on't telly ATM and it is rather excellent

I have been concentrating for over an hour already, still concentrating

Double Scary

So then at lunchtime I had the first of my 2 groovy classes and walked round and round for an hour.

Then afterwards I came back here, had lunch got stuck into gaming on my iPad then looked at my watch and panicked. I ran to bed, had a nap then nipped to Aardvark and did my weeks shopping before it shut

Emotional

Then over breakfast I found a track name and listened to it. Gosh, it became a bit emotional, it turns out that the track was one off the first 12" record I owned.

Then I clicked a link to an interview and just generally was young again

Then later in the day I heard Abba at gym. I sort of thought "Gosh, my first Xmas records, Abba - Super Dooper and AC/DC - For Those About To Rock"

Blik Coffee

So s'morning I am drinking black coffee, a new taste, 3 or 4 days since I had milk in a coffee

A number of years since I had sugar and a number of days since I had milk either

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Early Dark

Gosh, it's getting dark so much earlier than last week

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Trysordy

Then we headed off to my rescheduled recycling trip, it was good. Packing loads of odd incomplete socks into bags, folk buy them and get stuck in with scissors and glue

But it was strange being there without one of the other Tuesday resident's, the Autistic aggressive chap

Lynda

So s'morning at 11 the toe cutter lady arrived and earned her cash in next to no time. Gosh but she is good and quick

And I arranged my next appointment for a different day as Thursday mornings are busy now

Isn't she...

So I had an appointment with Denyse s'morning and she talked a great deal about my "stage" of recovery and where we\I should be heading now. (Not "for the rest of it" just for now)

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Out and About

Then me and Alex headed out in the car. First of all I directed us to Mynydd Cerrig and we called in at Ruth's house and delivered back Athan's toy which he had left here

Then we went into Carmarthen looking for a bun shop but everywhere was closed (It was after 9pm) we ended up in SHHHHH McDonalds and bought two mugs of tea and two buns

Ruth and Athan

Then about 4 o'clock Ruth and her talented son, Athan, came round. It was excellent to see them both and Ruth made some noises about me finding a life which was positive

When they went home Athan left one of his toys sitting on my table

Level 3 class

So I had my first Tuesday mobility class s'morning. I could walk faster by the end of it than I could at beginning.

And it is strange noticing stuff today. I wasn't concentrating on my right wrist and it stayed in position for the whole session.

I didn't have to concentrate on my right foot for about the first 3/4 of the session and it didn't turn over at all, then I had to concentrate for 10 minutes then for the last 5 mins it turned over outrageously

Ulster

I have just caught a program about NI on BBC3 "Petrol Bombs & Peace: Welcome to Belfast" it was called. Just wow, they came to "peace" how many years ago and many folk are still so bitter. Apparently the 12th July was more violent in 2013 than it has been for many years

Warmer

And it has got much warmer since s'morning. I just had a bath, got into bed for my nap and lay there, in bed, naked, with no covers on

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Rain

Gosh, it is back to "just" raining, not the noisy heavy stuff that there was earlier

Clever Clogs

So I said to Timmy s'morning how can I make the day appear beside the date on the beginning screen on my phone. He said "No, I've looked into it, you can't". I looked a bit disappointed and he said "But press 'the button' and do nothing else"

Ooh, the clever clogs

Summer's Over

And today is the first day in a number of months where I have had to put summat else on as well as my t-shirt and trews (new pic now)

Quiet Day

Well it's a quiet day on my timetable. So at lunchtime we nipped to Morrison's (noisy link) and bought loads and loads of more shopping than I usuall get there

SLT

Then just after I had woken up properly Sarah the SLT came in to see me again. We discussed some of my perceived weaknesses and how I can improve them

A Lie In

And I didn't get up today until 8.30. A decadent lie in

Sporting Telly

Then out of the blue when I came back from Aardvark I received an email that said "I have signed you on... you will get an email in 15 mins....." and I already had the next email saying she had signed me up for BT Sport and I could watch it.

I can't see it on my telly yet but it works on my PC now, which is where I watch 95% of telly anyway

Ah, and I am told I won't be able to see it on the telly as I don't have a Sky box, but WTF I can watch it anyway

Late

Then because I had a late lunch I thought there was no time afterwards for a bath, I just had a nap then headed off to Aardvark, did my shopping.

But because I had been to gym today I figured I probably needed a bath so I had it after tea (1)

(1) As usual on a Friday it was naan pizza and oven chips, it was one of the highlights of the week eating it

Isn't She Beautiful

So about lunchtime I had a 3rd level gym class with that lovely Sam. It seems strange, of the folk in my class I am by far the most immobile so effectively I have a different class than everyone else there.

I told Sam today that I had discussed my voluntary work with Trysordy and they had said I could move days so as from next week I am going to 2 level 3 classes

It is frankly remarkable how much progress I am making

Out In A Bit

And I have had a quiet day today but in about an hour I am heading into Carmarthen to but a dinner for Freya and Toby. Who is back in town staying with his Mum ATM so obviously some bridges have been mended

Wow. And he seems so grown up now. But yes we had a lovely dinner together, then we came back here, I gave Toby my old phone, went and bought him a SIM etc etc and had to buy Freya a "phone me" top up too

My Arm Is Better

Gosh, I have just noticed how much better my right arm is. It's not fully better so I was being a bit negative but on reflection it is so much better

Need Sum Buns

And this morning I got the stuff out, Paul arrived and said "Erm..." then I got stuck in and made a load of flapjacks. Yes, SmallPaul had to help, he greased the tin while I was stirring them.

After they were ready I left them cool for about 15 mins, tried to cut them but they were still all breaky. 

So I left them for another hour and they look lovely now

Colder

And I noticed that last night when I woke up I had pulled my bed clothes over me, for the first time in a number of weeks

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Failure At Games

Then s'evening Timmy said "Game of backgammon?" so we both got on the iPad device, he won the first game, I put it down to luck, he then said "Best of 3?" and promptly beat me at the second game too

(Grumble, grumble)

Right Handed

And as we fitted the new clip for my bath lifter yesterday,  today, the first time since it was fitted, I got out of the bath, approached the clip and had to use my right hand to attach the wire

I managed, no problem, and that is evidence of summat I have been thinking for ages but not able to say, my right hand is getting so much better....

Restful

Ahhhm,so it's back to proper business now....

Trysordy-ing

So we nipped to Trysordy and did our bit for the community today.

We also had to ask them if there was a different slot available as I have now been doubly promoted at Gym, they said "Yes" so from next week I will be going there Thursday

Feck, arse, girls

So tonight me and Timmy conversed and decided that I was probably well enough to have just one drink tonight. Lets hope I am not all coughy in't morning

(Noisy link, sorry)

Timmy the dude

OK, so Timmy wasn't able to solve items 2 and 3 on my list but he was able to sort out making my video camera work. I said "The "on" light came on for 2 seconds when I switched on my PC then off again", he said "Ahhh" opened Windows Movie Maker and the light came back on. Ah, no program, no light. So I have installed Skype on my desktop PC as well as my laptop

My memory IS improving

So at lunchtime today I thought "If I am gonna cook 'em tonight..." went to the cupboard and took out 4 potatoes. They are too big to steam so I cut them in 4, put them in a bowl and stuck it in't fridge. 2 minutes later I recalled, rushed to the fridge, took 'em out and filled the bowl with water around the spuds

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And as I was leaving gym I spoke to Sam and she agreed that it is time for me to be altogether in 2 better classes a week. So providing my voluntary work can do another day I will be at gym Tuesday and Friday

Sam

And we went in and had a Sam halfway class at gym. I was telling Sam how beautiful she is or summat at the end and she actually said that I should be in the very advanced class twice a week. But the other class gets in the way of voluntary work on a Tuesday so we will have to ask them if I can rearrange my days tomorrow

A quiet week

And as my life has been so hectic for a number of weeks I am rather glad that we are having a much quieter week

Out For An Ice Cream

So me & Gareth went out for an ice cream, the heavens opened and we had to sit in our car and eat the ice cream

Quiet

So we are having quite a quiet Sunday, so far.

This morning me and Gareth went out and headed for Morrison's where I did most of half my weeks shop. Today I asked Gareth to push me to the frozen veggie section and said "I can't look at everything, find me the least fattening food" so he spent ages looking thru them all so in the end I found some

Aargh

Then I was about to go to bed, suddenly my PC started behaving really strangely. Oh, malware was in, big style.

So I had to pay for a solution (noisy link), which took 'til well after bedtime, then miraculously my PC started behaving like itself again

And it does seem generally better today so I think paying was worth while

Surprise Shopping

Then today I thought I would look at the wound in my moses sandals, looked at it and thought "Wow, how have they lasted this long?" So we went to one shop, looked everywhere, no moses sandals. So we drove somewhere else, went into the first shop, looked everywhere, still to no avail. We were about to get back into the car when Edwina said "Lets try here!", went in and within one minute I was trying my new sandals on

No Pink Hair

Then s'morning Clair came to see me and talk about strategies for dealing with an ABI etc. She left me a copy of a leaflet and forgot the staffs copy so is gonna email it to them, so I can have a more accessible copy too

Still Runny

And I had 3 or 4 poohs last night and I am just about to have the second one s'morning, oh what fun this barium is

And I am paranoid now, every time I fart it feels just like my pooh did yesterday so I need to be sure I don't think there is any solid before releasing it

It's OK, I am dry now. Paranoid every time I need to fart but dry

Friday Feeling

Then, having had no time for a nap today we nipped to Aardvark and did my weeks shopping

Just back

Then we had just got back, I was sat at the table opening 2 parcels when the community physio lady arrived to discuss NHS cough assist tools but I don't think she thought I was suitable

Lunch

Then, as we took ages in hospital, we nipped to Pizza Hut and had lunch there which was nice but much to filling for me.

Petty cash had to buy that for us two

Sh*t, what a morning

So we headed off first thing to Singleton Hospital in Swansea where they did "Video Flouroscopy" which involved me being got into position sitting in a scary big camera device then I would eg sip juice which was laced with Barium (which doesn't taste very nice) then they were able to take x-ray movies of my swallowing. I had 3 drinks in various patterns then some pieces of peach with a hoppible goo on them and last of all a biscuit with loadsa goo on it too

Afterwards I was speaking to the Doctor x-rayer and she said I should actually stop doing the put your head forward to have a drink but do continue to do that to eat.

This is relatively rare, most people can eat drink but not eat, but I am, typically, the opposite