Busy MOS

So when MightyMark came on duty s'morning he spent about 20 mins doing paperwork, then he came and rubbed on my medication, ever since he has been painting. OK, he stopped to have dinner, rub on my second dose of medication etc but he has been busy painting ever since. He is now doing the last chore and it is nearly half past 7 in the night.

He has even done the door which is mostly glass patches with thin wood in between, and he hasn't got paint over most of it

Hop-flipping-ray

Smug, bug rug. No, just can't believe it

Missing Her Already

And today was the last day of Sams holiday from gym that will affect me, hopefully she will be back next Friday

So me and GGtGG headed in and did loadsa work on various "leg" machines followed by 10 mins on a bike

Txt&Phone

So s'morning I had an exchange of txts and then a phone call with Sam, who is in the area ATM.

Basically we decided that Sam and Emma (his missus) and Freya will come over here s'afternoon then we will all (with GGtGG too) head out for dinner. We couldn't decide where to go but apparently we ate here last year with David and Nora and enjoyed it so we have booked a table for tonight

And didn't it go well. They were all 3 on good form and we did have a delicious dinner

Nooneraft

And we had a copy of excellent things on tonight

• And it was entertaining, at Iechyd Da for a folk come all ye and there were some entertaining newbies etc last night, a good crowd of musicians and a spoken word poet

Busy Morning

So because me&Timmy were a bit later getting on the road s'morning we went to Iechyd Da and picked up the veg first (and said "See you later" to the staff there as it is a Folk Night tonight) then we popped off to More Reasons to.... and got the rest of the weeks food

Then, after unpacking, we headed off to gym and did ages on the rowing machine and less time (but still too long) on a Cross Trainer

Strange Day

So first of all today we popped to gym earlier and I did further on the hand cycling machine than I have done before. As usual

Then we came back and after lunch GGtGG cut my hair once more

THEN while I was in bed napping Sam txted me and said "See you Friday?". It turns out that he is coming back to Wales to catch up with his mum & me, so good news

Quick Trip Out

And what an effective trip it was. "We" headed to Homebase in Llanelli because RoyGBiv had ben notified that they sold Spear and Jackson narrow brushes there. So we paid £6.66 for it which I felt a bit threatened by, brought it home and started trying it out before we even went indoors.

Just WOW what a difference

So RoyGBiv is outdoors as we speak cleaning up the patio while I am indoors to cook. Just wow

And wasn't that good thinking on Roy's part. When we were outside working later a neighbour passed by and said "Wow, I want one of those, where did you get that?"

Cycle

So me and RoyGBiv headed to gym at roughly lunchtime and I did a mega cycle. As there is no storing of how much/little I have done, today I managed 10KM in 39mins 38 seconds

Off Out

And in a bit we are off to another big meeting with Headway Swansea group, there are a few more members/activity than the Carmarthen group

And we played Mah Jong today which I had never played before but I won the three games that the 4 of us played!!!

We left a bit early as on the way home we called into B&Q and picked up some paint, turps, floor cover rugs and paint brushes as MightyMark is gonna get stuck into painting all the wheelchair damage off the interior doors next weekend, as my wheelchair is no more

Welsh Summer Weather

Again

Maps Pic

And I noticed tonight as I was exploring using Google Maps I was passing behind my house and I noticed the For Sale signs on it. "They" must have taken that pic before I moved in

And if you look to the left you can see the house that used to be pink while mine is old fashioned white in that pic

Pain In My Hip

And my ar*e hurts a bit when moved on where I had the injection yesterday

Lovely Day

And it is a fine Welsh summers day today

No Stick

So last night I was at the sink preparing..... and I thought "It's getting too dark" so I turned and walked almost the whole length of the kitchen, to the switch, and back without holding on to owt as I passed and, more to the point, with no walking stick.

It is harder, I have to walk slower but if I am keeping an eye on making sure it all moves properly I can fscking walk

Busy Morning #2

Well I went to the Drs and had my now 3 monthly testosterone jab which is a bigger jab than the one monthly one I have had for a couple of months now but it is done. I have an ache in my bumcheek where they injected but it's done.

On the way home we popped into the gym for a series of exercises. Today we were doing arm exercises and just wow but I am getting much stronger. There is a lifting exercise that I used to be able to just do 6 out of the total, 30, but today, for the first time, I managed all 30. Now I have been told to do my exercises in groups of 10, with a half minute pause to let my muscles breathe between 10's but I was so exhausted that in the final lifting exercise I did 10, then 5, 5, 5 and 5. But I managed!!!!

Fun Business

So today I have to head over to the Docs for a, hopefully it will be every 6 months now, a testicular injection of some kind followed by a gym session without any teacher as she is off on holiday for 2 weeks and I just have to practice myself today

Wow/Aargh/How Do I React

Then today me and Timmy headed east to near Swansea where the Swansea Headway group were having a meet up in a centre for archery/shooting. I was rather impressed by the staff there, most of the time they are just dealing with the general public but it did not phase them at all having a bunch of partially disabled folk to deal with

Busy Morning

Then today we nipped to Morrisons first and got some shopping, popper down to Iechyd Da and picked up my organic delivery, came home, put it away, then headed east to the shooting place

Passer By

And *I* met one of my neighbours today, he was walking his dog as I was heading out to the car. He said various things, commented on how he can see that I am no longer in a wheelchair, no longer as fat as a..... and how much he likes the paint job that they have done to my house