Hot Water

And the tap is still running hot which makes a) having a bath and b) doing the washing up and c) washing my hands much easier

Did My Washing

And I had to do a load of washing s'afternoon which means that the machine will be empty tomorrow therefore I should wash the sheets off my bed etc as I wash it every weekend Saturday or Sunday depending when the machine is free

I Am Not Worthy

So today I will be at my once a week Sam's Class.

I am not worthy....

     Well I have now had an early lunch so I can do sum digestion before going to class........

Dun it. It was as much fun as usual but I noticed half way thru the cabbage-string exercises (They are called ham string by most folk).....  half way thru the cabbage-string exercises I noticed that my right knee was bending as much as the left knee. It still wasn't the same, it hurt and I felt unsteady, but it was the first time it has bent as far as the left knee in over 15 years. I told Sam (as I was feeling a bit smug) and she said "You didn't used to be able to bend the right knee at all"

Hot Bath

And I was able to have a hot bath again today (Yesterday I had a shower at swimming pool and day before was the first bath I had had for weeks) and it still felt really important etc etc

Bliss.....

Thursday AM

THEN me and Timmy headed into town, called into Lloyds bank* so Timmy could pay me half the cash for the plumber, then we popped down to Caffi Iechyd Da and fetched an enormous box of goodies, then to Morrison's where again we had a bigger than usual shopping list, then home and put it away.

Then we called down to gym and I did my 20 minute cycle, at normal speed for 4½ minutes then flat out for 30 seconds repeated for 20 minutes. Puff puff pant etc but I can do it 

* WTF's going on, you don't need to queue up any more, just went to a "Paying in" machine, put my card in, didn't need to enter my PIN, put the cash in the slot at the bottom, it clicks and hums then says "You paid in £x?" you click "Yep" and it pays it into your account!!!

Gardening

And as soon as I had finished my breakfast me and GGtGG went out to the greenhouse and removed 3 of the plants from there to put them in the trug, I think the last 2 plants we will leave in the greenhouse

And I went back out to have a look tonight and it already looks better, more upright plants etc etc

Recording Sound

And I spent ages today trying to find different ways/techniques for recording sound so perhaps I could have a stronger method. No such luck but I rediscovered how to video/record sound on my camera which I can then convert to sound files. Dunno why I did that, just rediscovering

For future rediscovery you just have to press the small video camera picture button next to main button on top of my camera. Then "up" arrow to play it back

Walkies (AGAIN!!!)

And we popped to town for walkies again tonight. So we parked on Lammas St and instead of going up the hill we walked along Lammas St and down Mansel St and then up the hill past Iechyd Da and then back down to the car.

Oh, it was a different route but still as much fun as ever

Sigh

Well we are off to the pool s'afternoon for an hours workout

Hoo-fscking-ray

Hot Water At Kettle

Aaah. T'was much easier making my brew s'morning, just able to heat my mug up, didn't have to reboil the kettle etc

Wot Denyse Said

And Denyse arrived when I was spreading some bird seed on the feeder tray and said "Stand properly" which was actually to remind me to think about...... etc..... and then said "Anything I should bring up with the team?" and I said "Yes, actually...." and went on to tell her about walking in the back door, how I want/need to practice more but I am not allowed to try it by myself, so can I walk in there "While there is a MOS behind me with his hands free to catch me if I fall" and she said "YES".

Woop dee doop, hooray etc etc

Then she approached me again and said "Second thoughts. If we get the council to put handrails there, they will do it for free, then you can use it by yourself. DO NOT use it until then"

Plumber?

The phone rang at about four minutes past nine s'morning and I thought "Is that the plumber?", picked it up and said "Hello" and a woman with a very thick foreign accent said "Can I speak to the homeowner, please?" I didn't even reply, just hung straight up

Then a couple of hours later I was thinking "Where is he?" and he just pulled up, outside, no phone call etc. He did a couple of hours work then fscked off. I turned the tap on and it ran hot for about a second then ran cold. 

So MM had to phone him again, we had a direct number, he came back, did about 20 seconds work with a screwdriver and it all works now. The hot bath is happening again and we didn't have time to go to the gym first.

Well "someone" said to me today that when the bill arrives "they" will pay half from Staff PC and I can pay the other half

Be Good

So I am trying to be good today, there is no point asking Denyse to marry me, just no point, so I am trying to make friends

Yum Yum

And I cooked pasta for myself tonight again. Nice it was, I can manage it now

Sorry

Today's T-Shirt

(Snigger)

Church Road

So we popped out front door, turned left and walked down the footpath then came onto Church Road.

It is the minor right turn just after we have driven off to town but I went up it, uphill it is. Soon we were level with the roof of our house

Come On, Plumber

Come on, waiting for you to phone s'morning

So Timmy phoned them at 11am, they said they had ordered the spring and the wrong one had arrived, so he had to order the full expensive part (that we had been waiting for a week to avoid) and hopefully will be in touch tomorrow. So instead of heading off to Headway in Swansea we are heading to Aqua Fit @ gym, luckily Timmy had brought trunx just in case, then shower @ pool

Stressed Hand

So we went to Carmarthen tonight, parked on Llamas St, walked up past the old town hall and along King St. For the whole time my right hand was sitting at my side, where it should be.

Then we turned down the steep downhill at the end of King St., Little Water Street. My right hand went up in the air and stayed there until I had walked the five yards through the very steep uneven bit when it went back to my side

Pasta

And I cooked some pasta for tea tonight which I haven't done for ages, I had kind of gone off it as I struggled using my knife at the same time as my fork to scrape it on, to eat, but nowadays that is straightforward again, so  I think I have changed my eating habits a bit

And I was sh*tting myself about carrying it to the sink to drain but it just worked, my own two feet with the pan in two hands

Visiting

And I went across the road to ask the neighbour summat and she said "Come into my house and see" and I walked up the side and into her house. Lord but she works hard to keep it nice

And she did say that even from her not very close neighbour position she can tell how much better I am getting week after week. Like, she said, "I used to be in a wheelchair"