One Ronnie

And we are watching a program about Ronnie Barker on telly ATM and it is excellent

They Are Here

Good lord, my parents and my bruv have arrived, so can't say much for a few days. But they did complain.

And I cooked dinner for them all, we had 5 naan bread I made them all into pizzas and managed to make an extra but pot of oven chips. It was yum yum tho I say it myself

And my mum complimented me on cooking food that she could digest

Gaviscon

And then me and BigEd had to nip out to buy my Mum some Gaviscon to help her eat out etc. She had a bottle but had to leave it with Nora, my sister in law, as she was poorly

Girls Names

So today my 2 members of staff are known as Ed-weena and Paul-een

Drovering

And we nipped back to the pub that used to be my next door neighbours

Lunch Out

So we nipped out shopping just before lunchtime and went into Morrison's Cafe and had an omelette and chips which was very nice but leaves me just needing toast for tea or summat

But it was so busy in town, isn't Sunday supposed to be a day of rest?

Change It

So I changed the bed a day earlier than on my timetable in order not to have the tumble drier on when my parents get here tomorrow, I want to seem relaxed and effortless

Oops

Oh dear. So we were in't supermarket tonight Paul said "Want some crumpet?", I said "Yes, please, her" and then felt the need to go and tell the woman what we had said. She looked amused

Surprise Visitor

And today, as a surprise, there was a knock on the door, I walked to open it, and it was Brian, Julia's Dad. They were down visiting Julia and he decided an extra visit would be in order, it was good to see him and he commented how much better I look in the 6 months since I saw him last

And he bought me a bottle of Stones Ginger Wine as a present, mmmm, but I can't drink anything until Monday

Lie In

And I was awake most of the night but in the end I fell asleep and didn't wake up 'til 8.30!! A lie in!

Black Friday

So we nipped into the pub up the road for Black Friday, the busiest drinking day in UK, apparently. It was busier than usual but still 2/3 empty

Big Shop

So going into town s'afternoon, with my old glasses to leave in at a charity shop, instructions to buy a new oven shelf and a shopping list for Aardvark

And we finally found the opticians (who said "We would have put new lenses in for you!), couldn't find an oven shelf anywhere (Sheffield House is closed down now) and got an enormous Aardvark shop

Physioing

So I am sitting on the front of my seat waiting excitedly for the Physio lady to come here. I want to ask her if I should try walking without my splint in these big boots and practice walking with a bent knee that doesn't hurt

Well we talked about it and decided that splinting=the future, for now

And she suggested I take my walky stick with me when I go outside so with stick I walked slightly more than half way up the street and back. (5)

I could have gone further but I was most anxious about my knee hurting on the way back down the hill, but as I remembered to bend it slightly it didn't hurt at all.

So she has suggested that every nice day I repeat the walk

(5) I could have walked further today but I was nervous about coming back downhill hurting me but as I have learned to walk without my knee hurting I could have gone further

Afterwards

Then after we dropped Freya at home we nipped to the Drovers Arms in Carmarthen which used to be my next door neighbours pub in town, a long time ago, but it was nice to go there and I gathered extra evidence on how much better my peeing is as we had 3 drinks there and came home before I went to't loo

Fredumpkins

Then later we went to meet Freya from school and she came here and commented on how I was sitting in an armchair while she sat at my PC eg.

Walking

And I have finally sussed it that when I am walking if my right foot hits the floor under a 2 or 3 degrees bent knee rather than a rigid, straight, one it hardly hurts at all, unlike my other walking pattern with a straight leg which made me wanna cry and stop walking it hurt so much.

Now I have sussed it walking is a lot easier

Christmas Crisis

Then s'morning when Paul phoned my Mum and said "Going here for Christmas, and here for Boxing day dinners" Mum said "Oh no, The Harvester that you have booked for boxing day, last time we ate there I was sick" so he had to phone several places and luckily Frankie&Benny's has accepted us

Poohing

So s'mornings pooh.... "No Neil, just shhhh"

(sent from my phone)

Snoozed

So this morning, when my "pocket clever thing" went off I woke up I thought "What's that other button on the RHS?" put on my specs, ah, it said "Snooze" so I tried it. 9 minutes later my alarm went off again and I got up.

Radical and old fashioned but now I know

Slackbladder

And I have tried watching Blackadder as it was writen about as one of the funniest things and yes, it is very funny