Well

Then l8r we went out with Julia, Adam, the offspring and our bigger kids. A) It made my head hurt how much out babies have grown up, and B)Julia's little girl told me that she approved of the jumper and the hat I was wearing tonight

And briefly tonight we saw Naomi, who used to run Brer Rabbit in town, whose son is now with Julia

And I didn't take a single photo all night

Christmas Crackers

"From the crackers at Saturday's Navigation M.C.C. dinner.

Q. What sort of bike does Father Christmas ride?
A. A Holly Davidson.

Q. What happens to a turkey at Christmas?
A. It gets gobbled."

Roger

Visitors

And Sam, Toby, Freya and Emma came round, drank coffee, were well pleased with their pressies, gave me lovely pressies for Xmas and went off so I could nap

Puff. Chaotic. So in half an hour we will head off to where we are gonna eat tonight. I have already done the washing up for the house

Walking Round The House

And after lunch today I decided to see how much more capable I am these days and set off around my house to the back, alone. There just wasn't an issue, it was easy all the way and back. But there was no bench to sit on out the back.

Possibly a purchase after Xmas....

Swimless

And as it is now school holidays and we are busy with visitors s'afternoon we just went to gym instead of swimming pool s'morning. We did various upper arm stretchy exercises and another 5 mins on the Upstairs Machine. I did notice that on one of the lifting machines that last week I was only capable of doing it 24 times today I managed all 30 that it sez to do

Excited

Sam phoned me at teatime, he said him, Toby, Freya and Emma are gonna come visit me and do the exchange of presents tomorrow afternoon b4 I have my bath/nap, then they will meet me at the restaurant for dinner tomorrow, with Julia and the rest of the team

Random Shop

Then we popped into town to have some exercise and I thought "What do I need?", and at a push we parked opposite Aardvark and walked the whole length of Merlin's Walk to Wilko where I had to buy more tissues (yes, I said it was at a push) then we walked back along Merlin's to the car. On the way back we went into The Card Centre where I spent a whole pound on some "gift tags", little cards on string

As Clear As Mud

Bit foggy s'morning

Hoo-flippin'-ray

And I have had an issue with my gmail account today, both sending from my phone and my PC it hasn't wurked but I think just unpeeling all the "pretend it is from this email" stuff etc it now seems to work again. I even sent an email to the list saying "Does this still work?" but it did. And I am no longer getting about 17 "nah, couldn't" messages which I was getting even when it worked

Walkies

So we popped into town s'afternoon, went up Lammas St looking for a parking space but it was well busy so we headed off to King St, parked up half way along, walked to the end, crossed over and walked back to the other end past where the traffic goes, right to the end, then walked back to the car. So it was 2 total lengths of the street. And we stopped in 2 charity shops on the way but couldn't find anything nice to buy. We also stopped at an "Art by the artist" shop but couldn't afford any of the desirable items

Getting Better All The Time...

... in small ways but important ways. They are just a sign that I am improving.

So last night when I was getting ready to do the washing up I realised..... 

That I was walking about the kitchen with no walking stick, GGtGG commented

on how good my technique is getting, but that had to be second in my mind

as first was carrying 2 chopping boards to the washing up pile with them both

held levelly in just my right hand

An Opinion

From Clive

Xmas Pressie

So today I was in bed s'afternoon when I heard a knock on the door. GGtGG answered it and I heard him talking to the neighbours son, who had brought over an Xmas card and a small pressie for me

I Can Stand Up

So s'morning when we were popping into gym I thought "Oh, I'd better try a pee before we get stuck in". Looked around and there was no disabled loo close by so I tried in the proper gents. I stood there holding it, and stood there a bit longer.... no couldn't pee. So I headed into the proper loo, took a deep breath cos it was scarily low, sat down. Pee'ed then just stood up by using just my legs/feet, I wasn't holding onto anything.

As it was so low I tried to take a photo of my knee above the loo so you can kind of tell what a "fit for 5 year old's" loo it was. But no hands, I just stood up like a normal person

What A Morning #4

Then when we were still out GGtGG turned into gym so we went there, asked first if the afternoon class was on but as they said "No" we popped upstairs and went on a couple of arm movement machines (on one of which my right arm is now moving up as far as the other by itself which is a bit incredible considering how fscked it was even last month) and did more Sara speed up/slow down exercises on the other machine then got on the "Power Mill Climber" upstairs machine

What A Morning #2&3

Then we popped down town and had to go to an expensive parking slot as all the free places around town were full. So we parked up in the old Tesco's Back Car Park on Lammas Street and from there first walked to Savers on Merlin's Walk where I picked more "rinse tour teeth and gums" stuff.

Then we walked back down towards the car and popped into Wilko where again I had to walk right to the back to find bleach and more antibac wipes on Petty Cash

What A Morning #1

So then we popped out to town. First of all we drove down King St, found a parking space and went into the Lyric Theatre. There we booked 2 nights at the Comedy Club there, for January and March and we booked a night at the Pantomime, Robinson Crueso, in again "shout at them" seats

Chess Based Witticism

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel over Christmas and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

Nicked from Facebook

I Think There's Nowt Happening

And I suspect that there won't be a replacement teacher for Sam's Pulse Gym class tomorrow. I spoke to "them" today and they didn't think a substitute would be involved. But I will just go there at Pulse time tomorrow and either take the class with some other instructor or get stuck into just exercising

Falaffeling

Then tonight I cooked a couple of small baked potatos for myself and a packet of Falaffels, which I haven't cooked for about 20 years. But it was fine, easy and nice (loads in the frying pan, I think next time I will try to use a gripper rather than a stiring tool.

But as it was a Don't Feed Timmy day there are half a frying pan of fallafels for tomorrow now I have drained them