Live & Learn

So tonight I was cooking scrambled eggs, beans and oven chips. When they were dun I was trying to lift up the egg bowl and fork stuff out. This didn't work, it was too hot to pick up, so I shouted "Help". Then I was trying to pick up the chips with a large spoon like tool, even bigger than a wooden spoon. This didn't work either. I saw my MOS picking up the eggs a spoonful at a time which worked but took a while. I should have lifted the eggs with that spoon device I used for the chips initially

What day/date?

And my new watch arrived s'morning. It was much cheaper to buy it from Amazon rather than a local shop, and I now can tell the date, time and what day it is from glancing at my wrist again.

I used to be able to do this but the strap on my old watch broke

Intimidated

And it felt a bit strange having Timmy tell Dicky about my new splint and my new, really expensive, piece of kit, my Bioness, which electrically impulses my leg. Because on Monday morning Dicky has to tell someone else about it and it is so important, it seems to work.

Walking with it on feels so different, so much better....

And Oh Dear, when we took it off for my bath my leg was well crushed, so we need to put it on much more loosely tomorrow

Shopping

So we nipped into town s'morning with a long shopping list. First of all into Morrison's to get some salad, then into the mobile phone shop to have him look at why it is wonky, which he succeeded, then into Aardvark for loadsa shopping. It seems busy enuf that I don't need to wait til just before closing time, for a delivery, like I used to at Waverley

Ybot

And Toby txted me today and said "I think I have got a job"

Ask It

So Timmy just came and showed me the new app he has on his tablet.

You literally ask it a question, vocally, and it answers vocally

Brief

And Freya came round for a very brief visit, we have arranged a different day's visit next week

And that Freya was telling my about her half way completed O levels. So far she is getting 3 A* with potentially more to come

Blinkin Flip

So today I had to go to Daceys in Cardiff for my "trying again" to see if my right leg was well enuf to need a Bioness Machine. And it was and he gave me a number of thousand pounds worth of machine to try it out. We are back in a fortnight to see if it's ok.

While we were there I walked up and down the room with no splint on to see how it worked. Immediately I was stepping further forward with my right leg, summat I haven't managed in 10 years.

So it is now switched to "train" mode so it feels a bit odd doing stuff to my leg while I am sitting down but it is a start.

So what can I say, just VVVVVVVBG

Blinkin' Flip

Gosh, so we played an excellent song tonight.

Then we played another 80's excellent song

SaraH OT

So Sarah came down and helped me cook a "simple" (as in far too complex) dish which I will eat with Freya and Timmy tomorrow. It's just called Veg Casserole with Herby Dumplins bit it looks OK

And afterwards she explained again what I am supposed to do with my new Weakly Timetable (as I have renamed them)

Hoo flipping ray

Off to Jim in a bit.....

And it seemed knackering but good

Drink in peace

So after the team meeting Denyse told me that they had decided that I would probably be OK to drink on my own as long as I wasn't snacking too and as long as the door was open so they could hear me if I was aspirating(1)

(1) Choking

Team Meeting

And ATM all my staff and Denyse are in't kitchen talking about looking after me

Dinner

And with tonight's dinner we had potatoes which you set in an oven dish then bake. So when I took them out of the oven I set it on a wet t towel (as recommended by a shop assistant last week) and it didn't slide about, sat still while I got stuck into the bits of spud with a lifter

Small Hand Towels

And while I was at gym today "someone" delivered my 2 new small towels to fit on my hangars. I expected them to txt me but they just stuck them in the outside of the letter box. I assume they forged my sig but it was good of them and I think it is posh enuf here to be able to do that

Jim

And then s'morning me and Timmy went to gym, I did loads, I couldn't even speak for a few minutes afterwards as I was so knackered.

Walking everywhere in't gym, and remembering to bend my right knee when it's about to go down etc, so it doesn't hurt as much

Sheets

And before gym today we nipped to the drapers, then had to go to the second one in Carmarthen which did sell fitted sheets that are long enough to go over my matress, normal ones are 5-6 inches long whereas my matress is 8 inches thick

So sheets are a bit pricey but it fits

Shaved

Well s'morning b4 I had my breakfast I had a shave.

And for the first time in ages I didn't cut myself, not even one little bit

Chipless

For tonights dinner we had Tofu burgers which were strange but quite nice and tomato and chilli new potatoes.

Which were surprising and really nice

And I continued on my "easy cook potato dishes".....

Peace Perfect Peace

Again I had a lie in, didn't get up to about 9.30. So I was sitting having breakfast with Paul and my brother, thinking "Finish breakfast then text my Dad and say 'Come here'" when their car pulled up outside and they came in.

They have been and gone, now peace again probably 'til the end of April when they will have to come back for another meeting