Out

And we went out tonight, to the pub up the road and it was a lot busier tonight, 7 or 8 people in the just drinking beer section

And they recognised me and said "Hello" too

Samless

And Sam wasn't there for Gym class today. Some chap was instructing us and he was fine although he didn't do the pressing/getting down exercise with me.

I got the impression that although most people in the class are far advanced than me they haven't had to come so far so I think he is impressed with how far I have come

But my right foot wasn't behaving today...

Aardvarking

So we went out early shopping and did out weekly shop at Aardvark, I didn't spend quite so much today but we still bought a fair amount of food

Crisis

So I was half way through making breakfast s'morning when suddenly my pot of gooseberries tipped up and spilt everywhere. I rescued the ones on the surface but had to say goodbye to the ones all over the floor.

Luckily Alex was able to pick 'em up

Isn't She Special

And that Freya came here s'afternoon, well we picked her up in town, and she came over for her dinner etc etc

Busy Morning

So after a cuppa tea we headed over to Trysordy where by now I have finished about 7/8 of the computer work, so hopefully in another week or 2 I will be back to actually doing work with the goods

How Well

And after some discussions with various MOS I am kind of thinking, how well am I compared with a number of years ago. I can think/speak etc etc.

It is just frightening when I think about how ill I used to be. I have still got a long way to go but.....

And...

And we spent most of the day driving about in the rain looking at houses

Estate Agent-ing

So as it's half a plan now me and Alex went into Carmarthen and went to 3 estate agents. They have printed off loadsa waffle and given it to us so we can look through it and decide if they have any properties that interest us

Oh yes, and while we were in town a strange man walked past and said "I enjoyed you singing last week" which was nice

Samming

And I went back to gym s'morning, even tho I was so nervous about it. We did warm up exercises then Sam said "C'mere Neil" and got me doing up and down (old link) exercises. Gosh they were so much easier today, I just bent over, prepared myself mentally and got down. For the last 3 or 4 inches of going down my right foot was protesting and turning over but I did it anyway

It Wurkz

Then today I put the pouring measures device on my new bottle of whiskey, which I bought instead of two half bottles which I have been using for a number of years as I was too scared to try pouring a whole bottle but there was no problem, I managed, so I am like a proper drinker now.

And about £6 richer too now

Denyse-ing

And then s'afternoon Denyse came round and discussed my future with me, how I am gonna about potentially buying a house, how I am definitely buying a PC and probably buying a camera, how to's, what to look at etc

Sara-ing

So Sara the physio came and worked me loads. We went for a walk together half way up the street and back. On the way back I was a bit concerned and asked Timmy to walk ahead and fetch my wheelchair back but I didn't need it, I ignored him when he came back and walked all the way to my front door

Cooking

According to Timmy it was agreed a number of weeks ago that I make special food on Sunday so we are going off in a bit to buy ingredients and devices to enable us to make Banoffee Pie and some Mushroom Stroganoff (whatever that may be) for tonight

And after lunch, before bath&nap we got started, I broke up most of the biscuits, mixed that with melted butter and spread it out in 3 small cooking tins (that we bought s'morning) and then put 'em in't fridge so it will set into the base of Banoffee

And we cheated a bit too, while we were in't supermarket buying ingred. for both things we werer half way round when we saw a packet of MixItYourself-Stroganoff so we got that and put half our shopping away again

So I am supposed to be exercising my chopping veg skills but we cheated. It wasn't my idea....

And after nap we mashed banana and put it in the pie then waited for Timmy to finish whisking the cream and we put that on.

And put them in the fridge to solidify. I haven't tasted it yet, but will after dinner

In a few minutes I am gonna start frying the onions for our Stroganoff, I chopped the mushrooms while Timmy was whisking the cream for our pies

And that was all reasonably delicious, the pies were far too much hassle to make
again but the Stroganoff was actually quite easy if a bit time consuming

Morrison's-ing

So I looked at my diary and thought "I'd better go shopping tomorrow instead of Monday, as I am busy then" but then I thought "Oh no, it's Timmy (Mr Tesco's) with me tomorrow" so I checked online (opening hours) and had to ask Gareth to come with me  tonight. So some of the stuff is a day younger 'best before' but I think I will survive

And because Gareth was looking critically at my usual purchase of two half bottles (and he pointed out how much more cash it costs, like £6 more like that) I practiced for a few moments with a whole bottle, tipping it etc and in the end I gave in and bought a flippin' enormous looking whole bottle. But I can't practice pouring it until Monday tho....

Backgammon

Then today I played Backgammon again. In the last few days I have won by two or three pieces but today I was winning by so much that I offered a double at which point my opponent gave in

Out&About

So we headed off to see if we could see the house recommended by Moishe, Llanpumpsaint, but we couldn't see it. But it does look posh etc there so perhaps further inquiries should be made

Gosh

It has thrown me a bit having lunchtime gym but it it OK.

But I was singing in public last night

Lunchtime Gym Session

Aargh, I had another gym class, again a few women told me that they can see how much better I am getting, but still doing that down and up stuff really felt uncomfortable. It is easier to get up that it was last week but still too scary

Trick/Treat

And some Trick or Treaters arrived, knocked on my door looking very scary in costumes etc. I gave them far too much cash as I have no memory of a Trick/Treat knocking on my door before