Lens Cleaner

And I asked Ed where I should buy summat to clean my camera lens and he said "No" and went and got me a box of 50 spectacle cleaners from the office

Dropped It

I was in the bathroom today and when I turned away my walky stick fell over. I bent to pick it up and I did not even hold on slightly with my hand while I was down, I just reaching down to the floor and picking it up, no holding on or balancing required.

My balance is so much better

Sara-ing

So today I am trying, and succeeding, in doing what Sara suggested I need to practise on exercises, basically bringing the LHS of my pelvis more upright (as in "flat") when I walk. But by gord, when I concentrate and am doing it I have to walk even slower than usual.

Like a snail who has got drunk and is a bit lost, or summat

Space

Then s'evening it occurred to me, at the back of the kitchen was sitting a kind of taller chair that I was supposed to use for cooking etc but I never got on with. For ages now I have either been standing on my own two feet to cook or using my wheel(y)chair. So tonight I asked Alex to move it to the garage and we got a big strip of kitchen back

FESing

So s'afternoon we are going out for a walk, instead of gym-ming. So as we are going out my FES will be fitted and then we are going to Scolton Manor for a walk. Dunno anything about it but apparently it's nice

Sigh. We didn't make it to the Manor in the end, instead we nipped to a country park which contains an enormous man made waterfall and instead of walking sat in the car to have our brew, out of the rain

Across The Universe

So s'morning me and Alex went.... first of all we drove up the cul-de-sac opposite so Alex could have a quick look at no. 52, then we went to Aardvark and did my weeks shopping, milk, cheese, veg etc

Imminent

And Denyse told me today that she will come down next Wednesday instead of the week after and nip over, have a look at No 52 then come and talk to me about it and other stuff

Gord....

Down and Up

Then Sara came over, had a chat for half an hour, a cuppa, then took me down to the floor and getting myself back up. Many times. But I could do it. It was a bit of a struggle, my knees haven't been crawling for 12 years but I did it, got down to the floor and got myself back up

We had a big chat about my strengths and weaknesses too, it was good to see her. And a bit mind boggling to get down to the floor and back up

Across The Road

And at 1 o'clock today we are walking across the road and behind that house to look the next next door house which has just gone on the market

Yes, I want to move, it is big enough, it has a conservatory, it has a patio and a garden, 2 bathrooms, internet access indoors and in the garage etc

No Sitting

And I was able to walk from the moment I got up again s'morning...

Car Dealers

And we are going off to see the dealer about my new car s'morning....

So again we went with no wheelchair. When we were in there one of the MOS said that last time I was there I couldn't walk at all.

They also said "What's he called now?" and there is a bit of hassle because some departments think I am called one thing and some another, but I think it is sortable

Nightmare

And I dreamt last night that the kitchen sink had broken and the landlord was gonna have to come and fix it

This morning when I got up everything was fine

Two Hands

Just now I was draining the veg to have with the dinner. I held the saucepan of water/veg in one hand and instead of setting the drainer in the sink like I usually do I held it in my other hand. Poured with one hand and caught the veg with the other

Walkies

Today we headed off to town with no wheelchair, we just left it here

So first of all today we nipped to Wilkinson's to buy some sugar for the staff. We walked back and put that in the car, then walked off along Merlin's Walk and turned left onto Llamass St at the end. We stopped off at the Boars Head for an OJ which was nice, there is no wheelchair access so I haven't been there for more than a dozen years, then we walked along til we got to the old Tesco's Back Car Park and turned left along there and across into the car park where we had left Betty an hour or so ago.

By jupiter but it was a long way. I think if someone had been pushing my wheelchair behind me I would have said "Gizza lift" about 2/3 of the way through but as I had no choice I just carried on

The Guards

Then later on today we headed west to have a walk on the front at Fishguard. We couldn't see any ferries this time but they do run a daily crossing to Ireland from here. So we took my new flask and the ingredients to make a cuppa while we were there. So I was just being followed by a wheelchair but I actually sat on a wall to have my brew. It was getting so late by the time we had finished, so Paul put my wheelchair away in't car and I actually walked into a pub/restaurant and had my dinner.

Proper chairs are becoming much easier by now

ObAnd I didn't have my FES fitted tonight, but muscle memory and retraining make me very happy

Wow

What a day so far. For a start I have realized what to do to avoid having to sit in my wheelchair first thing and then we managed to make me stop moaning about having to put my PC chair at t'table in order to eat. This has been a big change, simply swapping one chair for another has made it so much more stable

Walking Again

And I walked out of the bedroom s'morning

Sweet Chips

So for dinner tonight I made some sweet potato oven chips which were a pain without my chipper (Gareth had to help) but oooh they were delicious

Walkies

Then today we went to Morrison's only to buy one thing but it's a start. So today we nipped to Morrisons, got out of the car and walked in without being followed by my wheelchair. I did my shopping with no wheelchair. So we could have left the wheelchair here, it followed me walking from house to car, stayed in the car while I shopped then followed me again into my house.

'Wimming

And as Gareth hadn't forgotten we went off swimming this AM. Oh what fun we had although I did swim 4 lengths on my back with boyancy aids