Hot Chocolate

So for a bedtime drink I have just had one of the sachets of hot chocolate which have been in the drawer for ages. Just that powder and some warm (but not boiling) water. Cor Blimey it was nice, and drunk a bit quickly

Weirdnosity

Then s'evening when me and Roy were out shopping I found my FES control box in the shopping basket. I had obviously knocked it off. I put it back together but it stayed black, not working. I limped around the shop and had a proper look on the way home. Nothing. A couple of beeps when you pressed one button but no other signs of life. Roy said "Battery dead?" but I said "No" as I had changed the battery only last week, but still no life, no combination or order of button pressing brought it back to life.

So in desperation I took the battery out and replaced it in the same position. Lights and display were on again. It works again

Hybrid

But by feck but it's odd looking at Hybrid cars. Sometimes it made engine noises, other times we were silent as we headed along. Just by feck, posh or what

Everyone Meeting

So I am waiting here for a "team meeting" s'morning where everyone is coming here to get together and slag me off to Denyse etc

Right. So first of all I had to sit around while they did this "meeting" mularkey. Then when I expected Denyse to say "Garage" she had to go and do a "bosses" type of meeting with Timmy while I had my lunch

Then we popped off down to the Toyota garage, me, Roy my driver and Denyse and Timmy. We had a look at the cars then Timmy went home and me and Denyse and Roy said "Test drive" to one of the workers and we took out both kinds of car and went uphill and around town with Roy driving

It was a bit odd but after that I think I prefer the cheaper car, although if we do chose that we will have to see how it's fitted out, CD player/Radio etc. I think me and Timmy are gonna head down on Sat and order the car when Denyse has got some bits of paper etc

BUT she did say that perhaps we will be able to "just having cream on my washed legs" once a day, in the afternoon which I am very pleased about. Still "needs" the afternoon which I am not to happy about but it is better

What A Swim

So me and MM the ex swimming teacher have just been to the pool for a swim. I managed 8 lengths today with both my legs kicking and both hands moving properly about.
I still wouldn't saw it was fun but a good swim was had

And I was practising making my right arm move properly, and keeping it up at the same level as the left, at the surface of the water. It might sound straightforward to you but it is much harder for me. But I just about managed while kicking properly with both feet.....

The Doctor

Aargh. I have just watched the last episode of this series of Dr Who, where he dies and is rejuvenated into female form.

Just good lord, I thought the previous Dr was the best for a long time, hopefully this new character can be as good

Not When I Was At School

And they hadn't invented it when I had my first computer classes at school, just how old does this make me feel

Out And About

Then s'morning me and GGtGG headed into Wilko's to pick up some more stuff for the staff. As usual we parked on Lammas St and headed up Merlins Walk. That used to be an issue for me, I would park on Lammas St if we were going to a shop halfway along Merlins Walk but I used to find it hard to get all the way to Wilko's and back. Used to. So we bought another mop, some loo roll and some other stuff. GGtGG was able to pay for it on the other staff card

Although on the way there we passed some unusual activity in town....

Boogie

Then later we headed over to Pembroke Castle for an evening of 60's bootleg entertainment, the headline of which was the Bootleg Beatles who actually were rather good and entertaining. When we got there with out "standing space only" tickets one chap looked at me and immediately, without having to be asked, walked over with us and got us let into the seats. The Pembroke support band werent too bad, the Bootleg Beachboys should have stayed at home looking for another job but the Bootleg Beatles were rather entertaining. I did stand up through that to have a boogle with a rather beautiful partner of some "bigger than me" chap

It was a good evening and night out, there was a selection of food made there, I had pizza, which wasn't too dear, and a bar.

 The underfoot wasn't too bad, mostly grass but reasonably well cared for. And as I can walk on stuff like that now.......

And I used the big pockets on the leg of my cream coloured trousers for the first time, the tickets were too big to fit in my bumbag but fitted perfectly in a newbie place

Dennis is a menace....

So today I looked at "What's on telly", and because of that I am now watching the men's wheelchair doubles. What can I say, just incredible

Bootlegging

So we are going to some castle tonight to watch The Bootleg Beatles. Dunno....

Right. So we had a marginal panic. GGtGG phoned them up to ask various things but he said "We couldn't get seated area tickets, is there anywhere for a cripple to sit?" as I don't think I could stand up in a crowd for that long, she said "Yes, disabled area, bring your blue badge and you will be allowed in"

Minor crisis averted

The Class

And I am going to the only class I goto every week at the gym today. It is called a "Stroke" class but it is for folk with similar ailments

Lordy. Well I have done it. It makes my brain hurt how much better I am week after week. Today I noticed, doing the step up and back down exercise I walked the long way round to be on the other side of the exercise machine so I could reach the handle with my left hand. The handle that I did not grip at all today, but I could if I needed to

Paranoia

And I heard Timmy and MM talking about the first aid course MM had to do yesterday. Their conversation passed over these, which made me well paranoid/scared but apparently it is just a standard first aid role play these days, not specific to me because...... I am not this poorly

Blueberry Crisis

So I opened the fridge and went to take them out but......."WHERE'S MY BLUEBERRIES?"
Then I realised, yesterday I was gonna put them in the fridge, I thought "That salad drawer, as I am cutting my own salad at lunchtime every day and eat all that I have cut, it's empty" so I stuck them in the left hand salad drawer

Does It Wurk?

Well, my "new" bedroom PC. So t'other day I emailed the seller, he said "Do this......", still didn't work. I emailed him again and he said "OK, download this and start it in a complex way". I tried it, it said "Can't find...." and the PC was still bust. I asked Timmy and showed him. This time it didn't say "Couldn't find...."

OK, switch it off and wait. Stays switched off. OK. Switch it back on and start the "Switch off later" program, check it later and it is switched off!!! So hopefully it is working again.......

The postman brought me the new Hard Drive for it s'morning. So it is sat plugged into my laptop with the old "music" hard drive that most stuff can't see plugged in opposite and it is copy/pasting oodles of files. It is about ⅓ of the way through and it has been running for about 4 hours now. Hopefully tomorrow.......

Then....

Then we popped down to Caffi Iechyd Da to fetch my orgy porgy food then to Morrisons to fetch the rest of my shopping.

Then after lunch he shaved squares off......

Hectic Morning

So first of all we popped to see the FES expert. She looked at me walking, tried moving switches etc and basically put it back together same as normal, said "It's goin' well, keep up the good work" &c

BUT she did say that the FES padds weren't sticking to my legs properly because a) my legs are too hairy, and b) because I have the moisturiser cream put on before FESing every day.

SO she told Timmy to shave squares of my legs so they can stick properly and tell the staff to leave cream off these squares so they will be much stickier

Then.....

Off To 'Ospital

So we (me & Timmy) are off to hospital (Morriston - Swansea) to see some FES expert s'morning.

Then we are doing shopping &c

Fredumpkins

So we went off and fetched Freya as she is back at her Mum's finished the year at Uni

Hooray

Then we went to Aqua Aerobics. Which was as hard as ever but I am getting better at it. This eek I really noticed the standing on just my right foot aspects.....

But I was a bit annoyed, she said to everyone at one point "Watch, your bottom....." but I was jealous, I thought that was my job