Playing

Then tonight, after I have cooked for/with Freya her mum is coming to pick her up. She has agreed to give me a lift into town so I can go to the Poetry Night at Caffi Iechyd Da in Jackson's Lane

Walkies

Then this morning I was sat outside doing exercises, when I had finished them I thought "Walkies" and went up hill to the top turned around, got out of my 'chair and walked all the way to the bottom where I turned round and walked back up, past my flat to the top of the hill

Radical

So s'morning I experimented with moving my mouse to my right hand side. It hurt but it worked, so progress. Every day I will do a bit of practice

Weirdness

And this morning outside the shop who came by but Faith from The Abbey. It made me feel a bit better about being in Carmarthen but a bit weirder too

Ho hum....

Well I am bored now, nowt else on today, nowt to do, but Jackie is off tomorrow and I need her to tell me whether Caffi Iechyd Da is accessible

Shopping

Well, as usual on a Monday I went to Morrison's to get my shopping. It was no problem, a passer by pushed me for 2 feet over the step in.

Oops

So I did some washing, then tumble dried it. The tumble drier was playing up, not drying. I emptied the water and looked at where I thought you emptied the dust. Then I asked a MOS. She said "No, this is where you empty the dust"

AND afterwards it still didn't work

So I complained again and this time they showed me, for the first time since I owned a machine that as well as the water and the dust I also need to clean out a filter every month or so

Bed

And I changed my bed this afternoon. I still had to get help with the double duvet cover but I needed a lot less than last time, it was much, much easier

Allen key

And I felt the need to tell someone else that the right hand brake on my 'chair wasn't working properly but this time I chose the right chap. He said "Wait there" and came back with an Allen key mounted in a 'turn it round' thingie and he turned the lock round more with 2 hands and some grunting (as in loads) and it seems fixed now

Walkies (again)

So I just went out the front and walked down and back up behind my 'chair. Then I paused outside and did some more of my exercises. Good lord but these are much easier than they were a few days ago, obviously they are working

F*ck it

Well, I had forgotten it but it happened when I was still able to watch the news. Where else will there be a "big international news stories of the past 10 years" site?

Walkies

And at some point today we came here in their car, I got out walked indoors, put the food we were there for in the fridge, went to the loo and walked back out, got in their car again and went away. It would have been loadsa hassle to free up my 'chair so I just walked. Which felt a bit strange but I managed

Gosh

Well they have gone off now, back to Belfast in't morning. Sad to see them go and pleased and relieved too

Weary

Well I am knackered tonight. We have been busy shopping for all kinds of stuff and just exploring generally. But we found a salad~dryer etc

The Captain

And my sister did send a few pictures of the family visiting Peter on his small schooner when he visited Belfast

Well hello there

And then this afternoon my father appeared with a special surprise for me, which was pleasant. The surprise did give me a book of mine that she had been keeping in care for me for years.

Good oh

Well it went quite well, we were exercising my legs mainly today. For a start I had to just stand on a step with my toes and bend my heels down. This hurt and lasted ages but I wanna get better so...... Then I was on a Stepper doing 200 left/right steps

THEN someone said "Hello Neil" and went off relearning to walk. I had to ask and it was Chris, who used to mend my car many years ago. He had a Brain Hemorrhage randomly or summat. But blinkin flip, I knew someone else there!!!

Tra la la

I am off in a bit....

Nooneraft

Well hello there. Yes, I am a bit excited about the Folk Club tonight but thats not why I am writing this. So.....

Just now I was out the front. I thought about walking behing my 'chair down but then thought "Na, with your 'stick" so a)because I am not sure if I have permission, and b)I was too scared I asked a MOS to push my 'chair behind me. I walked all the way down, turned around and walked back up to my flat before I sat down. Gosh it was scary but I managed

Mornin'

Well good lord, this morning I did the first of my daily exercises while (and after IYSWIM) I was eating my breakfast. Then a scary letter from the tax folk came and someone is now trying to phone them to say "Neil was ill then" so we don't f*c*ing know anything