Odd Dinner

And we had our usual Thursday or Friday dinner of naan bread pizza and chips. But I have already had proper chips once this week so I had to substitute them for sweet potato chips. Which I haven't tasted for ages, I used to have them 6 nights a week (and proper chips the seventh) but recently I am getting into this healthy boiled spuds with my dinner instead

(sings)Isn't She Wonderful....(/s)

And then today I am, after an early lunch, back in Sam's class for the only time this week

Well phew that's finished. It's gob smacking what I am capable of nowadays but still
ex-frigging-hausting too. But I can and will, every week I am a little bit better.....

Walkies

Then after dinner we headed into town for a walk without any stairs and parked on Lammas St, walked up the hill to King St past St Peter's Civic Hall, back down past Iechyd Da and back round to the car. It wasn't much but I needed some exercise today

Missing You Already

Not that I see you very often but..... hopefully the new owner will get it together

That'll Do

So my speed test is looking OK

I think I can live with this

Communication Skills

So I said to Timmy what shall we do at gym as I have already done..... this week, he said "Wait, I will think" and came back 5 mins later and said "Me and Denyse were discussing...." and basically I will have a communication skills session instead. What that involves I have no idea but......

We discussed eye contact etc for an hour. I didn't feel that we covered anything that was new to me but perhaps it was a reminder. We have 2 more sessions to go thru at some stage

Lights

So some plug in fairy lights arrived a day early today so we went out, took out the broken ones and replaced them. I went to put the broken ones in the bin and suddenly the bin was full of coloured lights, they worked again. No idea why, they hadn't been working outside but they are now work again. So we put them on the shelf in the utility room switched off as a potential spare set

Usual Thursday Business

So we are off to pick up my organic veg in a bit, then go to MoreReasonsToShopAt.... (noisy link) then go to the fscking gym and do some fun exercises

Still Doing It

And I am still doing that "put right foot on left knee" thing

Farmfoodsing

Then we headed out to Farmfoods tonight to fetch some more oven chips etc and I had to top it up with some icecream

Swimless

So as there is no Aqua Aerobics class 'til after summer holidays and the pool is too full of kids playing we are getting different today, I had suggested that we walk round town and nip upstairs and downstairs in some shops but I was told "No....." and the plan is to head gymwards and just do loadsa machines and the rowing machine, which fills me with joy.....

Well I did it then. 4 machines finished off with 25 minutes on he rowing machine to do 2.5km

Fitness For Ages

Then today we popped to gym early and I did another 10km cycle. It was nearly or possibly the quickest I have ever done the distance in

But it rained on us as we headed into and out of the gym. After I took a picture of the weather about an hour and a half earlier

Big Walkies

Then s'morning we had a conference about whether to walk early or after my nap, we decided to head out early so we straight away headed East on the M4 for a bit, until we arrived at the coastal pathway here. Then we set off along the path for a bit, then we walked down more stairs onto the beach where I managed to walk for half a mile of so along sand, until the next stairs up. I think we were lucky that the tide had been right in earlier in the day so it was all firm etc. We carried on for ages until we reached the RNLI rescue centre at which point we turned back and walked loads back to the car

New Habit

Even tho the pics are a few days old I still did it again s'morning. A new habit, just getting better in so many small ways

Marinate-ing

Then the Tofu that's gonna be for dinner two nights in a row, well the first half is marinading in a mixture of soy soz, lemon juice, garlic and ginger. I will fry it up tonight and I hope it will be nice.

After stirring the marinade every half an hour until dinner time  

And it was delicious in the end. Summat that I used to feed to my kids and missus sometimes. Reminded that I used to cook it by Julia, I am grateful. It was fscking lovely

Ooh Look

And as I posted a pic or two yesterday this feels like it is so important, being able to bend my right knee in such a fashion after more than 14 years of not being able to.....

And I did it like this again s'morning, a new habit will be made

Sturit

Then after an exchange of emails I am going to meet that Stuart chappy in town for a coffee

And we met him in town for an hour and it was much better than him coming here which has happened in the past. We said "Out for a meal", agreed and agreed to email him next weekend to make a date

Uber Walk

So we popped out s'morning to do a bit of shopping in Aardvark, we did that, walked back to the car, put the shopping in the car then turned around and basically walked right thru town, thru the outdoor and the indoor market then right up the hill that used to be the Cattle Market, stopped had a coffee then walked all the way back to the car

Isn't she beautiful......

And I am off to the only class that I have with Sam all week now......

And wasn't it hard work, but slightly easier than last week, it seems to me anyway. I am getting better and better, very slowly but going in the right direction

Government Job

A guy goes to the Council to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, "Are you allergic to anything?"
He replies, "Yes, caffeine. I can't drink coffee."
"OK, have you ever been in the military service?"
"Yes," he says, "I was in Iraq for one tour."
The interviewer says, "That will give you 5 extra points toward employment." Then he asks, "Are you disabled in any way?"
The guy says, "Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles."
The interviewer grimaces and then says, "Okay. You've got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You
can start tomorrow at 10 a.m., and plan on starting at 10 a.m. every day."
The guy is puzzled and asks, "If the work hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., why don't you want me here until 10 a.m.?"
"This is a government job", the interviewer says. "For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. No point in you coming in for that."

Chris Pollard