Long Way

So I begged Timmy "Can we go out for a long walk instead of gymming today" and eventually he agreed so we headed to the Leisure Centre car park, parked around the back and headed off following the path by the river. It was eventually by the river, much scary downhill but I managed - I did it.

It didn't occur to me that I would have to walk back up but.......

Getting The Bin In

And I was out the front s'morning fetching the food waste bin back after it was emptied. A neighbour was walking her dog and stopped to chat briefly. She commented A)on how much better generally I am, but (more to the point) B)how much clearer my speech is than it was a year ago

Out

So "we" went out to the pub up the road tonight and had a pint or 3

Shopping

Then after lunch we nipped to Wilko's and bought various bird feed and feeding devices then we put together the bird stand that my brother bought for me ages ago. It all looks good, we just need them to pass on word and loads come and eat

Gym not swimming

And this morning I nearly had to have an argument with GGtTT as I was insisting on not going swimming as it is half term so no idea how many kids will be there, so in the end he agreed to just (ha, just!!!) take me to gym where I did my loadsa exercises followed by 20 minutes on a bike

But before we went to gym we had to nip to the chemist next to the Drs and pick up more cream and more sockings. Isn't the NHS excellent

We did see Sam, she was there today, and I asked her..... - she said I was looking thinner on Tuesday whereas the scales said "Just as fat". She said that I am reducing fat and growing muscles again, so don't worry too much about scales. So OK, as long as she can give me regular updates

Jokes

And my Dad sent me a strange Irish joke s'morning which I actually found rather funny.

Sorry

Out For Brew

So we went out for a brew about dinner time, just wanted out, so we were in the King St shops, in for a cuppa and I also had a very nice just fruit chewie thingy

Ex

Then at lunchtime my ex landlord phoned and said "Will u b in later, an electrician need to finish stuff off" so....

And he did, he reconnected the thermostat in the hall to the boiler so now you can adjust temp from there

Even tho we have bought the house off the landlord he still paid for someone to finish what he had promised

Gym

And we are off to another gym proper class s'morning as she is not there on Friday due to Easter so.......

And it went well. For some of the class I was walking very slowly without using my 'stick. And she commented on how I look thinner, some of my fat must be turning to equally heavy muscle or summat

Then afterwards we nipped to the Drs to pick up my script. I had forgotten about this when I left the house without my wheelchair but I was able to walk into Drs from the car park then back out and down to the chemist

That T Place

So we went to Tesco's tonight, I picked up a new "roasting veg in" tray as the old one is loosing it's non stick surface (as in I bought a dearer version), thought "May as well while we are here" about sweet potato oven chips and got another sprayer of oil

Rain

And I had thought earlier "Lets go for a walk later" but it seems to be a bit too wet to try

'Wimming

So me and Timmy took ourselves off swimming today. But it's half term so it was a bit busier than usual but not too much. I did 4 lengths with the float device and 4 breadths with no support.

12 years since I was able to do that in the past, I had to do breadths as I am too scared to swim in the deep end but I did it

So Hard

As I am practicing walking without my 'stick it is so much harder to right heel first followed by a tiny bend of the knee. It is so difficult to just walk. Most people can do it - just wow etc

Paying Double

And my ex landlord phoned me s'morning to say that he had been paid rent for next month whereas I had bought the house so can we give him some details about where to pay it back

A very honest men!!!

Boxes

And we went to the garage s'afternoon and put my enormous collection of cardboard boxes (in case I move) in a bin bag as I have now bought the house, no charity shop will use them so recycling we go

No moving

More Reasons To Shop At.....

And we are off to Morrison's in a bit to do the small percentage of my shopping that I can't do at OrganicAardvark

Another tenner well spent, of which three and a bit quid was the cream I put on in the bath every day

Technology Alex

So Alex has set the boiler to switch off at midnight but it was on when I got up s'morning. So ta

So he failed to tell me about my bedside clock but otherwise he is quite useful at this technology....

Reset The Time

So last night before I went to bed I reset my watch and the clock in the bathroom. I puzzled for a few minutes over my bedside clock, called Alex to help, we looked at it together and gave up, expected it to be wrong s'morning. When I woke up my bedside clock had changed by itself, I came in "here" and my PC had changed to the proper time too

Saturday Dinner

And we had the usual Saturday Dinner of roast veg and Linda McCartney and it was as delicious as ever.

I bought too many veg to cook this week but I now have a brown paper bag with one parsnip in it on my rack, so next week I won't buy a parsnip and buy a bit less veg

The day is nearly finished

So the chaotic week is nearly finished. Calm again.

If only we can figure out how to work the new boiler properly then we will be sorted, calm

And it's looking good now. Alex has set the timer so it's not on 24hours and it seems to be working. I was a bit worried when the 'heating' symbol on there was flashing but that just means it is working/on