Odd Shopping

Then we went out looking for some "quick charge" rechargeable batteries like the ones that are in my landline phones. In the 3rd place we looked he said "Of course, here....."

But they were roughly £1.50 per AAA battery, how much did I have to pay for the 8 batteries I was after/needed?

Swimming

And we are off in a bit to the swimming pool where we are meeting up with Sara the physio for a session

And she was rather impressed. It is 4 months since she saw me and she was well impressed at how much progress I am making. So I swam 2 breadths with no float for her too. She advised me how to try to move my arms while swimming too

Afterwards in the changing room I parked my 'chair up, walked to the taps pushing an in shower chair and was able to clean myself while standing up, then I walked back pushing the assistant chair again. On my feet the whole way thru

No Neil, leave it

I am so sad, I hadn't even left the breakfast table and.....

Show It To The Nurse

They Arrived

And eventually my pin up thingies arrived. I bought them on Amazon, contacted the seller last week and said "Where r they?" and he said "They are coming from China" which I kind of object to on the grounds of support local businesses but I have done it. They arrived and I am relatively pleased with them but surely a Welsh carpenter could have made them for roughly the same cost

Gymtastic

So we headed to gym about lunchtime and had a good session on various weight machines, the pedalling machine, and the rowing machine. This last one is still a novelty to me but I can use it now

Urgent Pooh

So I got up s'morning, walked into the kitchen, took my medicine, took 2 steps towards the breakfast area then thought "Hang on...", turned around and then went to loo and had a 'pre breakfast pooh' which is reasonably unusual, usually my routine is breakfast, pooh, get on with the day.....

Hectic

And then we had a hectic, unpleasant trip to the swimming pool.

A) A chap had ignored the sign that sez "Don't leave your stuff in the changing room", left his stuff and kind of half outside locked the door on the big "2 person" changing room. So we had to go to another smaller, not as well equipped, room

B) Primary schools are still on holiday, so there were loads of little kids in the way

C) The disabled loo (Which I wanted to use after being polite enough to not pee in the pool) the light was broken, so GGtGG had to leave the door an inch open and stand in the way so no-one else could use it while I was in there so I could see

But I did it, swam some, did some exercises, showered in one of the open to the public "Don't take your pants off" showers (and had my cream put on in there) before drying and dressing in a much smaller room round then back

3 shops, 1 trip

So we nipped out to Morrison's s'morning. On the way we called into Wilko's to get some cleaning goods and into Farm Foods to get a couple of items on my list, they are cheaper there

Friday Dinner

And we had my Friday dinner (na'an bread pizza) for dinner tonight as we were out on Friday with D&N, but instead of chips we had it with 2 cous cous & veg thingies that Nóra had bought

Get Rid

And s'morning D&N came round, drank tea and chatted a bit then they had to go off to airport

Nóra was a bit emotional, as she used to be so involved in my care and then hasn't seen me for 7 years and can't comment on how much better I am and how much better my circumstances are here and now

Busy "Day Off"

Gorsh. So s'morning we met up with David & Nóra in town and went looking for benches. We couldn't find a nice one in either of the places we looked in Carmarthen (I know which one was best but still not that lovely) so then we decided to head off somewhere that hadn't been on he list. When D&N were waiting for me near M&S s'morning there had been a young chap running a stall selling various things, they enquired about benches and he directed then to his bosses company in Pembrey Industrial Estate. So after we went to M&S and bought some lunch type stuff we headed off to Pembrey. We got there, drove up the lane, thought "Where is it?", looked behing summat and went to look at the last option and there it was except it was closed. As he had told us to come along today they phoned him, he said "Sorry, at home for lunch, see you in 5" and showed up. I was impressed. He is very talented at working with wood and runs a small, successful business from what is effectively a large shed in the back of an industrial estate. I was double impressed reading some of the stuff about him, he is boss, his son D&N met s'morning is training to be a carpenter and all the rest of his staff are various less capable folk who have summat wrong but he is trying to help them

Anyway David bought a bench for me and arranged to pick it up from the chaps van in Carmarthen later, after nap and bath etc. So we did meet up later picked summat up, and we set off with the back seats folded down and D&N following in their car. Before they arrived Ed had taken it out of the boot and set it up

Out For Dinner

Then we all went out to Tafarn Tanerdy to have a delicious dinner and chat etc

"They" insisted on paying for Alex's dinner to kind of say thank you for putting up with that Neil chappy

Gym

First of all we came back here, I put the food away then showed Nóra around my house which she hasn't been to before.

Then we took all 4 of us to gym. What can I say, as Nóra hasn't seen me exercise since I was trapped in a 'chair she was telling me how much better I am. I think I know that but I am suppressing memories of how ill I was so it is wonderful to hear it

Aard

So me and Alex and David And Nóra nipped to Aardvark s'morning, it went well, still no posh muesli but.... but it all seemed to take even less time than it took last week. I bought loads and Nora paid it ion behalf for my Mum.

Lordy

Lordy, as I looked at diary s'morning I realised "Lord it's my birthday" because I am so old I was suppressing

So

So we have gotta meet D&N in Aardvark as they have gotta buy my shopping so they will have to witness me walking upstairs etc

Hectic Day

So today is the start of business. So at lunchtime Anthony (my financial advisor) is coming to see me then later my brother and his missus are coming to visit me

Well Anthony came over, just to see me as he had to do a visit locally, we talked about the house, if I want him to get in touch with Denyse about stuff etc. and he looked pleased that I was so pleased about ownership

And in a few minutes we are heading into town to meet up with David & Nora(h)

And it wasn't too bad actually. Turns out that Nóra (without the h it is) actually buys the same soapy stuff that I found in Aardvark. And she has instructions from my Mum to pay for tomorrows shopping (And she pushed me out of the way when I tried to pay, so she paid for Timmys, mine, hers & David's)

Scared

And when I went to fill the kettle s'morning suddenly I was scared, there was an enormous spider in the kitchen sink.

Ed came and killed it after I had said "Can u put it out the window" because he said I was scared but I called for help as I don't trust my right arm to behave as I wast yet

Fredumpkins

As we had got in touch we headed over to get Freya from her house at dinner time tonight. She was as intimidating as a teenage daughter can be.

She is now in her last half term at sixth forn, she is nearly officially a grownup. She was my baby, youngest of my kids