Lord

i am being tokd off for having negative thoughts so.....

"Isn't it a nice day, here I am in a beautiful place with a good crowd of folk..."

What a day

First I packed my bags for SOS then Sara the physio came in and really hurt me to make my arm better

Dr Richard

Then came down the chap who was here for a number of hours, recording and videoing me talking. His name was Dr Richard Body, speech & language therapist and he is on my side putting my claim together. He did say some interesting stuff and gave me an example from his tape device of how I need to speak slowly and louder and clearer (which I was capable of doing, unlike some of his patients) in order to make my voice more understandable

So practising now, every time I speak

Ybot

Then we had to take that Toby chap and buy him some food, as they had cut off his dole without telling him so he had to reapply s'morning. Now he is a proper doley, sign on every fortnight and get hassle off the staff etc

Drs

So Paul came round s'morning and he soon took me to the Doctors for a follow up appointment on my swollen left leg. He said it is still slightly swollen but nowt to worry about. He said that I should try resting my leg on a cushion when I am in bed

S'evening

And we went to the first folk club that I have been to this week later and it was excellent

S'afternoon

Then I was put off by Sarah OT not coming today, her kids are off school today, apparently.

I have been lost in Harry Potter world since and Timmy is now cleaning

Wiv Timmy

Then Timmy came in s'morning. A bit later I ruined the world by getting in my car and being driven to (More Reasons To Shop At) Morrison's to buy £2.00 worth of Blueberries

Ybot

Then that Toby came round. As I had felt unsettled this week and didn't have a "learn to cook this" organised for him we just went out and I bought us dinner

Gym-miny

Then s'morning me and Paul went to the gym which was as much fun as always but I am still getting better. Afterwards we stopped and had lunch there.

And for the first time yes, I was walking a long way but Paul had to catch me when I tripped over a chair-leg

Later today we have arranged to take that Toby chap out for his dinner too, so I will only have eaten breakfast here today

(And it's a reference to a Mary Poppins song - this Gym-miny thing)

Burry Port

And then tonight we are going out to Burry Port Folk Club

Oh. But then Ed told me he had just been sick so he had to go home. No Folk Club tonight then

Anti-virus

They we spent all afternoon running a new version of Norton Antivirus scanning my PC. Good lord but it is effective but it has taken 2 hours so far and there is still the 3rd hard drive to do

And we are still waiting for it to finish

And it is still going. Today's lesson is OVERNIGHT

Bigger Bin

And I was trying again to make my recycle bin icon bigger. It said "Right click anywhere on desktop, click Properties...." but Properties didn't come up when I clicked. I thought panic.

Then later I looked again, same result but this time I noticed it said "Size" at the top of the right click menu. Investigated and it then said Small icons, Medium icons or Big icons

Walkies

So I went shopping with Ed s'morning. When we were on the way there I said "Can I not walk today" as I felt uneasy. He said "No, I will come behind you pushing your wheelchair". So fairy nuff, I still felt unable, uneasy but tried it. I walked the whole way around the shop, I could have walked much further if we needed to. But I felt too scared to walk

And before we set off he protested to me, tried to persuade me to take off my "I'm a pirate" hat, but we mat loadsa kids about 3 years of age who said "He's a pirate" to their parents then laughed when I said "Pieces of eight" to them

Aargh - I Had The Ability Already

And I got fed up with Gimp to try and stick together 2 jpg's so I deleted that and searched the Interweb again for another solution. One solution said "Download a program called Irfanview, it's easy". But Irfanview is the graphics editor I use and I had never found a "Stick 2 pics" together mode. So I looked at it again and oh dear, good lord etc. Under the Image menu it sez "Create Panorama Image" and there it is, put other pics at the bottom or to one side etc, it works the size automatically etc

MY-Tim

And ho hum, TimMY was on again today....

Food

Then tonight I thought "Oh, I had today's meal at lunchtime, better have salad for tea", but then I thought "No, wan't warm food".... So tonight for dinner, wanting small but warm food, I had a chip butty for tea, and 4 spare chips. Just one piece of bread and a few chips. YUM YUM it was good

Laugharne

Then we met up with Freya and all headed over to the Laugharne Weekend sort of folk festival (noisy link), and it was good entertainment. There is another band playing tonight and more tomorrow but we had to miss those. But what we saw was very entertaining

Shopping

Then TimMY took me exploring and we went into the shop that Sam told me he bought my birthday hat in. Good lord, there was some radical bargains and some very expensive Hippy stuff. They apologised and said it wasn't wheelchair friendly but we said "'Cos there's no room" but it was well worth a look

Timming

So TimMY came over s'morning. If it stops raining we want to look at the shop where Sam bought my hat, then we are picking up Freya who is coming into town to meet us