Tara

Well they have gone off now and in the morning they have gotta leave too early to nip over here for a bit. So thanks for a cool visit

Visitors

So we just sat in here s'morning and my parents came to visit, had a cuppa and a mince pie and chatted for a couple of hours. Mummy has taken a few Cream Crackers etc and they are gonna have lunch while I eat lunch, bath and rest, then later we are heading out for dinner somewhere else

And the dinner was as delicious as expected. 

Ho Ho Ho

So I had a morning with the parents s'morning and they were verbally very pleased with their pressies, as was I. So I had an early bath and I am now in bed for an early nap then we are meeting them in town for lunch

Which was pleasant, we had lunch, the veggie option was peppers stuffed with cous-cous and it was actually rather lovely. And as for the Christmas Pudding and Custard, I am in pudding heaven

So as requested by Mumsie we are heading back to see them in the hotel after an hours break

And we had a delicious much lighter meal tonight

Happy Parenting

So we are meeting my parents later who are already in town(1) but I needed nap etc so we will see them in a bit

(1) Much earlier than they reckoned when I spoke to them yesterday 

Unexpected Shopping

So me and Timmy went into town for a walk today. We parked outside the Drovers Arms and I walked the whole way up he hill to Nott Square. There I pleaded tiredness so Timmy was pushing me back in the 'chair when suddenly it started to rain really heavily. We paniced and ducked into Aardvark which was on my list for later today shopping. I thought they had a delivery later on a Thursday, hence my plan to shop later, but everything was already there. So luckily I had stuck 2 shopping bags in my pocket on the half-chance as we were coming to town so I was able to fill them both with products

Can Do It

And I noticed in the kitchen today that I was standing and walking all the way around the central divide without my wheelchair or my walking stick. It is no longer such an impressive fact for me, I just do it

Caught Up

Then the phone rang s'morning and it was Brian, Julia's Dad saying "Can I pop over and see you today?", so yes, he came over today with Freya and they both had some cheese and biscuits and grapes (which Timmy had txted me to say "Buy this"). It was nice to catch up

Gymtastic

So we headed into gym and did loadsa exercises etc. Because time is at a bit of a push Alex said "No time for bike 2day"  but because of that I arrived at gym, walked upstairs, did my exercises, and walked back down.

UberCycle

So me and Mighty went to gym s'morning and I did a 20 min cycle, just over 4 km.

But first of all we nipped to Aardvark and bought my Mum some Organic Chocolate Spread which she asked me to get for her, she will arrive about half an hour after it closes for Chrimbly so she felt the need to ask me to fetch some. While we were there I got some extra tins of tomatoes, tins of mixed bean salad etc that will be used up in a couple of weeks

Unexpected Shopping

And this evening I was about to start cooking when I realised that the "Timmy burgers" I had bought were looking sad without bread rolls, I went to the bread-bin, looked at tomorrows rolls and realised that they were much too small for the burgers. So we nipped out and bought more. Got some petty cash cleaner etc while we were out

Swimless

And I have got off swimming today (Hooray) because a) I really complained last time, and b) it's the school holidays so it's gonna be full of kids etc

Right. Well as I had no swimming I actually got stuck into the exercises like a normal gym exerciser. I put weight up by 10 kg on most of them and just went for it. With a visible layer of sweat on my face at the end

Cooking

And I was chopping the roastable veg tonight. I managed to peel all items and chop all of them with my right hand.

And it was cooked well tonight, none raw and undercooked and none burned/overcooked.

Yum yum, it was nice tonight

Ooh

And MightyMark came into work today, said "Morning" then immediately got stuck into sawing the legs off the outside seat in the front garden so it now fits properly without having to be propped up on one leg

Dinner

And I asked Ed "Want roasted veg or casserole?" so he said "Casserole", I chopped up all the veg with my right hand and remembered all the ingredients tonight so it was actually a bit lovely

First Time In 12⅔ Years

So after bath today I went to put my jumper on. As usual (since my accident) I went to put my right arm in first. I thought "No, see if you can...." and put my left arm in first. I used to be stuck at this point and need to take if off and put my right arm in first as it wasn't flexible enough to reach/stretch. But today I just put my left arm in first and then put my right arm in. It was slightly more difficult than doing it t'other was round but only slightly. My right shoulder is so much better than it was last time I tried....

Weather

No, I don't think we should try The National Botanic Gardens today, it's f***ing raining

Dinner

Then I cooked the usual Friday dinner of na'an bread pizza and chips. While I was making the pizza I was puzzled, I nearly called Alex and said "What's missing?" but no. I prepared the na'an, coated it with cheese, garlic, onion and mushroom, put it in the oven and when the timer said 2 minutes it suddenly occurred to me, tomato purée. Duh. The "cheese on toast" didn't taste too bad but it wasn't the pizza that I have been looking forward to all day

Quiet

So as we didn't have to go to Aardvark s'morning we had an unexpectedly quiet morning but in a bit we have to go to my weekly session in the gym class, hopefully with Sam

And as Alex just pointed out to me this is the last gym class of 2015 today.....

And we did gym. Sam wouldn't give me "missing you already" kiss for Christmas. But she did notice summat and said "You couldn't do that last week"

Oops Out

And we are heading out to an unexpected Folk Night at Caffe Iechyd Da, Carmarthen, I had forgotten etc

Shopping

So we headed into Aardvark and did loadsa shopping but they had no mince meat to make mincepies so we had to call into Morrisons and pick up some. I had almost nothing on my list for there on Monday so I just did my whole shopping today too