Clanking Bell

Then at dinner time me and Timmy got together over my PC and booked 3 flights to Belfast in June. No, I can't do summat that exciting, just no.

                    But we did

So.....

So first of all me and Timmy headed into Caffi Iechyd Da to pick up my veg. First time down King St there was no parking place so we headed around the block and this time we found one of the furthest away spaces. That is no longer an issue tho, I can and do just walk and walk nowadays

That done we headed to Morrison's and got the rest of the weeks shopping, and 6 tubs of hot&spicy pickled onions as they were still on offer

After we brought that back here and put it away etc we headed to gym. Today Timmy suggested a 20 minute cycle where every 5 minutes I was going flat out to get my heart beating

Mega Stickless

So I popped out with the small green bin to put it out tonight. I just carried my walking stick held sideways, not touching the ground. I reached outside the garden, put the bin down and walked back uphill with still no stick. It probably wasn't the longest walk without my stick but it was the first time I have even stepped one step outside unaided for some years

Strange Days Indeed

So first of all we popped into town to the mobile phone shop, showed them my 2 phones and said "Help". So he connected them together and said "Right, that's gonna take about an hour, go for a brew" so instead we set off for an enormous walk around town. Then we headed back to the shop and he handed over my new mobile phone. Aargh, what a difference and I am struggling to get it set up again, but it's nearly half done by now. So every minute since then has been spent setting up my phone

And then it wouldn't connect to Wifi, the internet. So MM had to phone about 3 folk and eventually one of them said "Oh yes....." and sorted it out. But then the staff laptop wouldn't connect, my iPad wouldn't connect etc but since then MM has seemed fairly competent making stuff work again

Early Lunch

Then we had an early lunch as we are off to Pil to see Sara in a bit while she does stuff to improve me in so many ways.

I don't think she is trying to fix my lust but I just glance at her and it feels better already

Well wasn't that hard work. So I walked on the treadometer machine for 1 mile (or was it a km?), mostly forwards, some sideways and a bigger amount backwards. I can just do it all now.   And for about a quarter of the distance she had me me walking uphill, up to 11% at the end which made her make strange noises, last time we tried it I simply couldn't walk uphill at all whereas today I was managing a steep hillside. Knackering but I did it

PO

So first thing we headed to the PO sorting center to pick up a parcel that they hadn't delivered t'other day as I was out and it required a signature. So it was my new mobile phone which neither I nor Roy can work so it is in the pile until MM comes in tomorrow, he is a P/T phone fixer so he will know what to do

It's Working Again

And phew, s'morning I had breakfast, a pooh then sat down at my PC. And there are some emails from Ixion again, it hasn't sent/recieved (as in worked) since 9pm on Friday and it became obvious to me how much it means to me, I was sitting, looking at my monitor, bored all weekend. What else should one do with their time?

Walkies

So as there is no exercise to be had today we headed into town and went for a walk. We parked half way along King St, walked to the end, downhill by the old courthouse, turned at the end and came back uphill by Cafe Iechyd Da to King St again. It was an up&downhill walk which was just so much easier today than it was even last week

AND when we were getting out of the car to start the walk I noticed my FES device saying "Short of battery" but we just carried on, thinking we would finish the walk before it ran out. But about a third of the way through the walk it stopped working but this wasn't an issue as I am so much better at keeping my right foot level these days

Solid

And much to my relief I woke up s'morning, had my brekky and then went for my morning pooh.

Much relief that it is solid again, much relief

Walking

So, as I said a while ago, while I struggle with being barefoot ATM, today when I wanted to just wear my pants to the washing machine, I put on my sandals with no socks or shit like that and I found it much easier. So obviously the issue wasn't walking with no socks/sockings on but actually bare foot on the floor that I had the issue with

Sh*ts Gone Away

So after my disease yesterday I got up about half past five and went to the loo, just had a pee, went to the loo again when I got up about half past eight and again just did a pee. No diarrhoea

And no, I had to squeeze out a proper thick p*oh s'morning, back to normal 

Knickers

So tonight about 6 pm as arranged with us to be timed just as we were finishing dinner Aerwen from across the road knocked on the door and gave me 2 Knickerbocker Glories which she had just made. Just WOW etc, weren't they delicious. Lots of different kinds of fruit in there amongst the jelly, ice cream and a flake on top.

I think next time she see's me and says "How are you?" that I will reply "All the better for seeing you" more sincerely

Sh*ts

And suddenly s'afternoon I have got a serious Diarrhoea. No warning, nowt unusual to eat just a bad case

Well I haven't been to the loo for a couple of hours now

And I have just done a fart loud enough that GGtGG commented on it, without fear of backsplash

Mended It

So yesterday the mended bit on the oven door came off. Me and MM thought "Oh dear" and bought some more glue, it will be delivered in a few days. Today GGtGG said to me "I am sure you bought a replacement", I looked everywhere and couldn't find it. He came back and went and looked in the cupboard with the tool box in it and found the replacement. We had to unscrew the holding bit then replace it. Simple and fixed for good now

Gardening

And me and GGtGG are busy today. We will pass the tip and tip my old washing line, stop and fetch 4 bags of composted rubbish, one bag of proper soil then start thinking about filling the Trug back up.

Then we need to dig some holes and plant the plants Mum bought for me and plant the "for bees" flowers in the gap we have left for them

Then we needed to go back and buy more soil, I sold 2 bags of compost to GGtGG, we had the amounts all wrong

Voting

So I emailed the county council and said "Can I cancel my postal vote after next weeks election?" expecting them to say "Yes, contact...." but they just said "Yes" so apparently it is sorted

Cooking

And today I cooked the veg that has been roasted for some weeks into a pan with tomato&herbs, a bo*loc* knees effectively. I was stirring it when MM said "Oh, I like that with baked potatoes" which was news with me, I was thinking of boiling some pasta but we have extra roastable spuds as my folks were here so we ate out loads last weekend, so yep, I switched the oven on.....

(Sigh)

So I said to MagicMark that it is a bank holiday today so no-one is doing owt but he said "No Neil, to the gym" so we headed over did some machines then 10 minutes on the bike (not 10km like I do some days when I am not doing other exercises) and finished all my other stretches and exercises

Strange Conversation

And we were nearly home in the car earlier when someone phoned me. It was a rep from O2 and she talked on. We arrived home and she talked while I sat in the car listening. Eventually I agreed to buy a new phone and it is actually slightly cheaper then the one I already have. Then I could get out of the car and let us in

So just waiting, it should appear in a couple of days, I will transfer my SIM across and it will just work. Apparently

Friday Night Treat on a Thursday

So we had Friday Night Treat for tea tonight, I bought the ingredients today as usual but it is usually Timmy working on a Thursday and he won't eat any of my food. But Roy has taken the shift so we had early Friday Night Treat