Folky

And it was excellent, there was enuf room that I could stay in my 'chair and we stayed later after they had all played they had a come-all-ye of the come-all-ye players. And folk tonight seemed to be playing 70's and 80's tunes that I recognised

And no-one asked me to pay for my dinner tonight

Tapping My Fingers

So I was out s'morning and I am going out again tonight. Tapping my fingers now, awaiting...

Books

2 new books arrived this morning, look good but I find it really hard this "choosing books online" thing. Any tips? Suggestions?

Mmmm

And I had the first 2 taxi journeys of today to Queen St, to the same place as I bought Ruth lunch last week. Today on the specials menu there was a vegetarian tart, which I wanted to eat but wanted one in so many ways too. 1/4 of the way into lunch Ruth's boss phoned her and she had to leave almost immediately, so I sat by myself and finished lunch. I asked if they had the spare sugar tubes that they said they would order for me, they said yes and produced an enormous box, containing 1000. I said "Erm.... can I sell you some" and they gave me a quarter of them for a quarter of the price, I said "Can I pay you for half as you have been so helpful etc", they said "Thanks" and accepted.

So I say that Ruth briefly but we had about 1 sentence each before she left

obAND Ruths daughter is MCing tonight at the Folk Club

Excited

Well I have just had my brekky, the last meal I will eat here today. At lunchtime I am meeting that Ruth in Carmarthen for lunch then this evening it is eating at the Folk Club night

Pee

I went into the bathroom earlier to have a pooh. While I was waiting I did a pee. And more. And more. And even more. It seems to me that pees even when I didn't think "Need a pee" are still 3 or 4 (or 5 or 6) times as big as the biggest a few months ago

Lovelyness

Oh, yes, Denyse emailed me t'other day and said 'Dee, one of the nice ladies in the office...' so I had to ask her, "Is everyone who works for them beautiful?"

Out And About

Gosh. I am not worthy...... Well, OK, me and (that beautiful) Denyse woman went out and visited two "buy new cars from us" places. For a start every car I have ever been attached has been second (or third) hand before we bought it.... anyway at the Ford garage (all the sales staff were away at a meeting, leaving a service specialist to help us) but there was an awkward bit between the seats that meant I couldn't operate the seat belt, but at the other place first of all we tried an Astra which fitted me but we couldn't get the "cripples seat" into the boot. However the next one we looked at a Vauxhall Zafira it fitted. AND you could stand the 'chair up in the boot if you had loads of extras to put in. So we took it out with a salesman selling it, then he got in the back and let Denyse drive, it was very comfy for me and big and high up etc. Now we needed to ask Carolyn to send us some signatures etc so we wil go in in a fortnight and order it.

They had no electric cars but perhaps if I need another car after the contract for this runs out in 3 years..... so we ordered a 1.7 Diesel. Apparently they are a lot cleaner nowadays than they were 10 years ago, the "ecoFlex", so he did say "enviromentally friendly"est of our range

Pooh

And I managed another wipeless pooh this morning. I know by now you must think "Stop going on about it Neil" but it is such a big thing for me, proof, to me, that I am getting better

Nightmare

Gosh. I thought I had woken up this morning, thought my Dad was coming over today to take me back to Belfast for Christmas, so I thought to myself that I thought "Oh, must remember the charger for my moby" etc then I thought again that my father phoned me and said "We cannae go today, a plane has crashed and closed the airport"..... and when I was actually waking up from my nightmare I thought it was late December and was trying to figure out if it had been a bad dream or real and if we really couldn't go.

It's flipping March, not December....

Her Lift

And it was actually that Julia who came to get her tonight, Moishe and family have moved into a caravan in Freya's garden, so very hectic. But Julia said "I found your old wood burner that used to keep you warm when you lived at Happy Valley, want it?" and good lord, I had wondered where it was who had got it etc and it turned out to be under a pile of junk at Julia's. I don't need it but just sentimental reminding me of when I had a life

And strangily-strange. Tonight when I saw Julia I thought "Odin, how did I ever love that?", last time I saw her I thought "I still love her", so obviously progress in the getting better thing, but hopefully I will have come to terms with it better and won't think such nonsense next time I see her

Visitor

Today, eventually, that Freya arrived. Then we had what proved to be a right performance but in the end it was a nice dinner. Yes, first of all I made the Falafel mixture and put one burger shaped bit on before the ring had heated enough and I had to call "Freya" and get her to help me turn it over. The second one was fine, easy to turn after a similar amount of time so it must have been the cooker. Then I had to call again and ask for help cutting the Pitta bread. She said "No, not yet" and put them in the toaster for a bit after which they were easily cuttable too.

But it was delicious, the falafel in Pitta mix. It would have been even nicer with tomato but green salad was a close second

Poohing

So today I went to the loo, poohed large style, then wiped my bottom, then wiped some more with loo roll, I didn't use wipes, then I did one last wipe and checked the loo roll for dirty bits. Then I was so impressed I needed to check again. Good lord, I had done a whole poohing cycle without any extra wipes, I managed it all with loo roll. For the first time in ages!!!

Breakfast Time

And I was eating brekky s'morning and I couldn't get a newly remembered song out of my head

Noisy

Lie In

This morning I woke up about 6.50. I thought "Nah, too early to get up" and dropped off 'til about 8.15. I repeated it and fell asleep once more until 9.05. I haven't succeeded in this "Dropping off again" thing for ages and I managed it twice today.

Wiping

And I seem to have noticed that I am getting "better" at wiping my bum after poohing. I had to start, ages ago, I got some Grown-Up Wipes and I used to wipe with one or two loo roll then have to finish with 3 or 4 (or 5 or 6) wipes, now I use as many loo roll as I need and just use one wipe to make sure

Walkies

Well I went out today, stood up, reached for my walky stick and walked 3 times up and down the front

Busy

So s'morning I got up, had breakfast, was half way thru breakfast when my alarm ckock went off, finished breakfast etc.

Then Ed came over and took my to Morrisons. We got all we needed but couldn't find a MOS to complain to as they don't sell any Tofu with bits and Marinade which means that next week I will have to go to that Evil Tesco's Place to do my weeks shopping

Columns

And because I was wondering how to make my Webpage look "proper" I looked and figured out how to break it up into columns

Time

As I thought I got up at 9.15 actually the clocks have changed today as it is summar and actually 10.15. Oh what fun we had trying to set my watch and then I had to go back and re-change the Interweb time which I had to physically alter s'morning as I thought it was an hour out