Crisis

And MagicMark who is s'posed to be working tomorrow has just phoned Timmy and cried off. His car is broken and it is a bit of a journey from Swansea, where he lives, to here

Well in the end GGtGG phoned him and said he would swap tomorrow for the Wednesday he was s'posed to be working

Stickless

And tonight I walked from the kitchen to the loo with no walking stick. I will have to get some advice about whether this is sensible but the very fact that I can....

And My Advisor said "Yep, indoors that's fine, but outside you need your stick, for a variety of reasons"

Getting Better At It

And I noticed today that some chap was working on summat outside the shop and I went over and got involved in a conversation with him in passing. He responded, obviously he understood my point.

This is so much better than last year......

Unexpected

So then s'morning Timmy said "What wanna do?" then we headed off to The Range (noisy link) shop where we bought more bread- and chopping-knifes and utensils as the set I had were cheap and blunt/getting dirty etc

And I did do that "lifting my walking stick offground" exercise for some of the distance within the shop

Oops

So s'morning I made the food for the week, then at lunchtime I opened the fridge and what was looking me in the eye? 250g of Curly Kale. Aargh, panic, eat lunch then chop it up and try to stir it into the already prepared and thickened dinner. Double Aargh, add more water to let it all cook together then if it is too runny I will thicken it up again

Well it looked a bit odd when I first tried to stir it in but over time it looks better

Well as far as my wonky taste buds are concerned it was a bit delicious. I will know for sure on Monday when I give MagicMark some to eat

Out To Feel Clever (?)

So me and Timmy are going out to a community quiz night in the village hall tonight. To either feel smug about how clever we are or feel daft.

Aaaaaaaa. Feel nearly as clever. There were 3 teams playing. One came in 6 points behind the winner, and we were one point behind. One point!!!

Shock Horror

So s'morning when MM and Timmy were having their handover chat I went to the kitchen and started cooking the pan of dinner that needs to cook slowly until tonight. But there was no-one looking after me, I could have cut myself or died or anything. They *must* keep an eye on my cooking. So whose "fault" was this? Mine for cooking when I had decided it was time or theirs for now having their handover meeting in the kitchen to keep an eye on me?

This is why Neil is a bit disgruntled with them "having to" keep an eye on me. WTF's the point. I cut myself once, ages ago, and because of that this new plan is in place

Oddness

So the FES feels a bit wrong when it is electricing my leg. So I nearly said to MM "Help" but then it occurred to me, my right leg is behaving as it did before my accident. So it's a get used to it feeling odd/painful as it is working so well

Seeing Clive

And we are popping out tonight to have dinner at Caffi Iechyd Da and see the band that's playing.

There will be Clive in his wheelchair and a few other members

Very good, very entertaining. They played loads old light "rock" songs, I am a fan

Gymming

So we popped to gym for my once a week class and what can I say. I used my walking stick to get there and for some between the exercises motion but for nothing else, I did all the exercises on my feet, no stick.

Including the balance on just your right foot exercises

Strange Memory

So MM said summat "slowly" and I responded like this.

Very strange memory I have, I can't remember who sang songs but other nonsense is well remembered

Warning.....

Oops (fixed now on the 15th)

Smug Better

And it occurs to me today how much my quality of life has improved since my cream on my legs has been reduced to just the afternoon, not in the morning too

.....Pig's Bum......

So we had the new large single na'an bread made into pizza for tea and it was nice

Pig's.....

Gymwards

Then after I had put my shopping away we popped to the gym. Today I did 3km of rowing slightly faster than last week. Seems to be a routine, slightly faster.

Then we came home and had a late lunch

Shopping

So we are off to 1st of all pop to Caffi Iechyd Da to pick up the organic order then to MoreReasonsToShopAt to do the rest

Which we did. It was OK. This week I bought na'an bread that was even bigger than last week's but there was just one in the pack so tonight I will cut it in half and make 2 pizzas

Fingers crossed

Interweb Was Bust

Then today I was looking at summat on my phone, suddenly it said "Nah" and stopped working. The router in the hall had gone different colour so I assume there was no interweb on anything. I went and pressed RESET and 5 minutes later it was working again. Since then there has been no problem

.... And About

Then s'evening we popped down to Farmfoods and just stocked up on garlic bread and ice cream. Well I have been eating both regularly for some time and I have still lost 5 stone so it can't be that bad for me

BUT it was so windy I got out of the car, took two steps towards shop, and then the wind blew, I had to take two steps sideways. But it didn't make me fall over like it would have done a month ago

I Feel Naked

So I have just got changed into my clean clothes and swimming trunk to save me having to take 2 sets of clothes to the pool, but as I am not wearing stockings until I come back from the pool I feel a little bit naked

Standing Up

And it has become habit now to move myself forward before standing up then just using my legs, no hand assistance.

Lordy, progress........