Feck. Rugger Bugger

So I am watching the rugby tonight. Or should I say 'trying to watch it' it is just too fast and quick ball flying about ball even on the foot wide telly in the kitchen

"Timmy Was Taking Up My Suggestion"

So I mentioned biking to Timmy. He said "Can't you remember, there was one but it was so far away at Cardiff that you got fed up and stopped going" but he had a look on this interweb thingy and it turns out that there is a new place, loadsa bikes to hire, different kinds etc and it is only about 20 or 25 mins away in that Swansea place so I think we will head down next week at some point......

Temperature

WTF's going on with the temperature. It was freezing earlier tonight, well after dark etc but as the night went on the temperature went up.

As I said WTF?

Timmy Swim

So as we are rearranging staff holidays etc Timmy is unusually working today and ⛬ is swimming today

Well at last Timmy listened to me blowing my nose and sneezing and said "Perhaps not, you have got so much on next few days you better not get flu" so just gymming today, not swimming

Sigh. So we are off 3km into my cycle, only 7 more to go

Lord, I did the last km at about twice the speed I had dun the rest. There's not wanting to go too fast at first because I will be too knackered at the end..... dunno, I will go marginally quicker earlier next time I try.....

Summers Day

Toasty s'morning

Game Of Pool

VBG

Quadruple Chin

So Sara the Physio sent me an old photo today of me exercising but what a fat git I was then, even I can just see it

Men's Shed-wards

So we are off to the Men's Shed tonight to not do owt, just drink tea and chat to folk. I might find another project but dunno

Aargh, and when we arrived they were having a "meeting" which was like politics and finished with a vote. Later I was talking to Stu and said "I was thinking of reinvigorating a coffee table" and he said "Yes, I will help you" so we have gotta find one now

Physio-ing

Then today at lunchtime we had to be in Pyle, about an hour away. Because of time inconvenience we popped to Asda and had a cheap lunch which actually wasn't bad and then we drove the last half a mile to the physio dept. So she kind of said "You look good, what shall we do?" to which I replied "So do you, and dunno".

But we actually did some new to me exercises which I even impressed myself by being able to do etc. First of all we did some "Show off your balance exercises" then putting my left foot on the massive ball seat thing they use and pulling it backwards and forwards. While standing on my wonky right leg. Eventually we were able to do that without holding on with my hand which did even impress me.  Then we did some "Stand on your tiptoes then back to your heels then tiptoes again" which proved very difficult but just about possible with my right foot. Then we were balancing on the bouncy beam and walking back and forward and left and right without holding on. Oh and at some poing I did some hopping on my left leg and on my right leg. It was much harder on the right but I managed

After all this we practiced throwing the gym ball and a volley ball which again made my right arm do strange stuff

Walkies

Then s'morning I walked from the lounge to the loo with my walky stick held up off the ground. Yes, I managed but it took much longer than with my stick

Physiowards

So we are heading east to see Sara the physio in Pyle, miles away, ATM

Oh It Got Me Going

As mentioned yesterday here is a copy of the leaflet that got me feeling......... yesterday.

I don't know what to say, it got me feeling strongly

Lordy

So am I gonna be able to do the whole two months?

Dinner Disaster

Well no, dinner was delicious and well made etc but after I ate, on the way to the washing up, I stopped at the fridge/freezer, took out tomorrows frozen dinner that has been in there since yesterday to put it in the fridge, and dropped it on the floor. Where the plastic container broke bits off. So we will have some bought frozen food tomorrow

Headshrinking

Then today instead of swimming I had the Headway Swansea meeting. I talked about it with Timmy last night and tried to feel a bit more positive about it. Which actually wasn't too bad. We found two chatty folk that I vaguely know from before so we got stuck in. I should have won the second game but was mind faddled and didn't notice the move that was staring at me.

But the reason my mind was faddled was a little A5 booklet called "The Real Guide to Brain Injury" that I picked up today, it it all factual etc but it didn't half get me going, agitated etc

10/10 I Got

Not being smug and clever but....

Ten out of ten I scored.....

Aargh

So in bed tonight I have just won a game of pool on my 'phone which was unusual enough but then about half a second later the white ball followed the black into the hole transferring me to loser mode....

Cooking Error

So yesterday I cooked, divided into portions and froze most of my weeks food. I had some by myself tonight (It is Timmy working) and it was delicious.

BUT today I opened the drawer in the fridge to take out my salad pack for lunch and found behind that a bag of 250g of Curly Kale which I hadn't added to the food and I couldn't think of a way of cooking it and adding to frozen packages

Oops

Proper Cooking Day

So I am back to cooking on a Saturday and as Mark said "I did well".

But we popped out to the market today for some last minute Xmas shopping and I forgot, the sauce pan was on the cooker turned lowest but still on when we went to town. No harm done, it was fine but a bit unnerving

Shopping

And we popped out s'afternoon and got Xmas pressies for my old bro and his wife and my young bro. I knew what I had in mind for Dink, we popped there and found summat for Gareth about 10 yds away. Utterly different stall but it's done