Patience

I have been thinking about making a bottle of Sloe Gin myself, but I think I may be well to impatient, drink some gin and watch the Sloes rot

Out

And I was outside looking a bit pissed off(0.7) and a MOS came up to me and said "Ralph wants a drink with you" so I went into number 2 to see Ralph, who can't do owt for himself, the MOS needs to pick up his cuppa with a straw in and give it to him etc. A "drink", I was expecting coffee but me and Ralph shared a bottle of beer to start. Then we moved on to homemade Sloe Gin, and Tonic, which I had a couple of

(0.7) Because I was thinking about the relatives who had just driven past me on their way home from 'across the road' who were too upset to smile at me and wave back. It occurred how stressful it must be to have "someone you love" being ill enough to be over there, if it was my kids or a loved one or my parents I would scream

Tea

So I had a coffee s'morning and fancied another drink about 11ish. I went to make it then thought "No, Neil, you are drinking too much of that strong proper coffee" so instead I took out an organic tea bag and had a brew. With lunch I will have another coffee but it has been ages since I drunk tea, my new habit(?)

It's lunchtime so I can have another cup of that dangerous harmfull stuff called Coffee ~ phew

Weirdness

So I woke up s'morning was sitting on the edge of my bed putting on socks and splint etc and I thought "Oh urgently, need a piss, shall I walk to the bathroom or wait 'til I can take my 'chair?" decided to wait put on my splint etc and left my bed. Since then I have been outside for a bit, back in etc still haven't gone to the loo, I seem to have forgotten that I was desperate for a piss

And I didn't do one until I was sitting on the loo an hour later to do a pooh, it wasn't urgent, it just came out

Dinner

So for dinner tonight I looked in the bag of veggie sausages, there were 3 left. I usually have 2 with my dinner but I thought..... then decided, "No, don't be silly, you are supposed to be on a diet", got the bread knife out and cut one sausage in half. So I had 1.5 sausages with cous cous for tea

Learned

I think that today's "partly clickable" page will be the last one I need to do to remind myself as I thing that I now know what to do

How lucky we are

T'other day I was wondering why it is still cold even under a blue sky in Winter time. Eventually I rethought it out properly, it's to do with us being half an earth thickness or less away from the sun in Winter and being closer in Summer.

So aren't we lucky that the earth is not a bit further away from, or closer to, the sun

More Walking

So I did another "twice the length of the road" walk today pushing my wheelchair in front of me.

Aargh

I woke up thinking it was Monday morning today and I had stuff on. Eventually I realised it was still the weekend

Walkies

So I was out the front walking up and down outside with my 'stick. At the top of the slope coincidentally a MOS came past. So I stopped him and told him about how without my 'stick my left foot wouldn't go forward of my right when I walked but it would when I was walking with my 'stick. But a few days ago I tried it without my stick and I seem to have learnt/remembered, but I was too scared to walk without my stick when I was concentrating on moving my left foot, so would he walk next to me and catch me if I feel over.
I didn't fall over and I can now say definitely my left leg is remembering where it is supposed to be going when I swing it forward when I am walking

Then later I walked up my road pushing my 'chair to the end, back down to the other end, then back before sitting down

Phew

Yesterday my big Sis phoned. She was trying to sort out Lloyds TSB after I tried to change my password (for security reasons) and since then it hasn't let me see my accounts etc. So she had gone to see them, I was shitting myself, but she told 'em what had happened and they said sorry and fixed it. OK, I still can't see my bank account but they have had to change my account number that I use to get in etc and this is being posted out.

... And At 'Em

So I got up about 8 AM s'morning, having been up needing a piss only once since I went to bed at midnight

Excited

And in less than an hour I can go out to Tai Chi followed by the Folk Club.

Wow, Tai Chi was really strange as I am much too ill to be trying it but just carried on, it was good. We just stayed for the first half as we were going off to catch the end of "The Folk Club"'s monthly meeting, it was very impressive too

And I did the first 3/4 of the Tai Chi class without sitting down, it was, I think, the longest I have stood up doing stuff for nearly 8 years

I am

My brain is getting better!!!!

Sigh

Well today is proving dull as ditchwater. Nothing good or exciting will happen 'til tonight when I am first of all going to Tai Chi then to the folk club for it's monthly do

Eat

And I cooked a curry today from the veg I had bought on Monday and water and oil etc. When I went to lift it I had to put about 1/3 of it in a box for the freezer, I thought "Where has it all gone, why is it so little?". Then it occurred to me, "Ahhh, you forgot to put any lentils in, no wonder it's small, and no wonder I was worried that it was 'too runny' for ages"

Dial-A-Ride

I phoned Dial-A-Ride yesterday, booked transport from my flat to the supermarket next Monday. They phoned today said "No can do, later?" I talked some more and the Dial-A-Ride bus is booked to come here at 10 to 11 next Monday and take me to't supermarket. Taxi back, but "free" journey there

S'afternoon

And this afternoon I printed out loads of bits of paper with my name, address, phone numbers, email and web addresses to give to people that I remember from the Tai Chi class tomorrow

Nowt To Do

So now I have no "extra" stuff to do, nowhere to go etc.

But I was reminded it's Tai Chi once more tomorrow followed by a late trip to the folk club, it's monthly night is tomorrow

Then

Then Freya came over to see me and I was so tired that I could hardly speak to her, but it was still good to see her