Stress Buying Online

Then me and GGtGG tried to buy some tickets to The Big Cwtch which is a festival type thing locally but you can buy "Disabled persons" tickets for less and you get an accompanier to come in for free but you have to prove you are disabled. We tried many times to but them with The Staff Card but it just wouldn't. No visible reason, just kept bouncing. So then we tried it with my card, no problem, and we have booked a disabled parking slot etc. And if it is raining we paid so little we can just not go

Shopping

Then after dinner we popped to town to buy a new clothes peg holder and some more anti fly strips. The clothes peg holder was easy but we went to 4 different shops looking for the fly killers. Most of them said "We usually do but there has been a run on them this week". So I have 1 more shop to try tomorrow then it is onto Amazon who are putting all these businesses out of business

Oh and we got more mixed seeds and nuts for the birds on the bird table, it seems quite popular these days

Different Plan

So as it is the summer holidays now today I am going to Gaynor's gym class instead of swimming and on Friday instead of gymming I am heading to the 2.30 swimming session which apparently they don't let kids in the pool then or summat

Refunded

Then we popped early to The Lyric Theatre as it closes early and my nap would get in the way. She said "Want a refund or new tickets for when they come back?". "Pardon, I thought they hadn't sold many tickets?". "No, it had nearly sold out, they were here setting up when the roof let in some rain and the drain flooded us with sewage, making the electrical equipment a bit scary"

"Lordy, yes, just give us 2 new tickets for that then"

So that will be why they didn't phone us to say "Cancelled" until a couple of hours beforehand

Then

Then after lunch we popped into town, drove along King St, no parking spaces, went around the block and second time passing there was a space outside the theatre where we were gonna go. We had to say "You said you would contact us on Monday about the refund from the gig last week?" but according to the notice on the door it will be closed 'til Wednesday. So either they phone me early or I pop in later in the day tomorrow.

So we walked around the corner and bought 2 jars of coffee for the staff off RoyGBiv's Staff Cash Card

Which did my head in slightly carrying it back to the car. As I was concentrating on walking my right hand, carrying the bag, rose into the air, strangely

Back To Normal

So 2 days worth of Freya visiting so I had no gym yesterday and so on. But she has gone now, it is all back to normal etc so I'd better get my head round a really long cycling exercise today

Hooray, I only have 9.1km left to cycle....

Just another 4.5 to go

Seconds

And I was lying in bed for my nap 2day and thought "I wonder how long it has been so far?" and glanced at my timer. It said 23 minutes and 23 seconds, 23:23 left to go

Another Day

So I got up s'morning and had breakfast. Freya is still asleep but in an hour if she's not up I will have to wake her and say "Meet your family"

Well she got up and we spent another 2 or 3 hours together before we went out and met Julia and her 2 littl'uns for lunch. It was nice, and her 10 yo brother felt the need to give me a "Hello" hug which was nice, obviously he feels that I am family. Then Freya said "Tara" and took herself off, going to Canada at the end of the month, spending the intervening time in England

Wow

Robot Pouring Beer, but he doesn't pick up the lid!

(minimal, but some noise)

Visitor

So first of all Freya is coming here s'afternoon until tomorrow, staying the night, but when I txted her last night she suggested that we pop into town to meet them for lunch, possibly Freya, Sam&Emma, Julia&her new chap and possibly the 2 younguns so I can meet my youngest, oldst, their mother and generally show off how much better I am at socialising these days

Off in a bit, no I am not shitting myself at all. No

Wow. They was all really nice, s'morning and after my nap we cooked dinner then went off to the pub. It was all just pleasant. Freya has now gone to bed earlier than I managed. See her in the morning, when we are off to meet the whole team, including Freya's little bro and sister before we say goodbye

Chilly

And I have got my jumper on over my t-shirt for the first time in over a fortnight tonight. It is that chilly

And I have just taken it off again about 11.30 at night. Not doing anything different, the temp may have changed a bit. 

Crisis

And when I was in the bath s'afternoon someone phoned me and left a message. So I phoned 901 and got it. It was one of the folk who are supposed to be putting on the Pink Floyd Experience gig tonight apologising 'It's cancelled, we will get in touch on Monday to arrange a refund' with some feeble excuse but I think basically they hadn't sold enuf tickets and bottled it at the last minute

My Boy

Then after lunch Sam, my boy, and Emma, his beautiful wife of 2 months, popped over to see me for an hour. It was well worth it on so many levels, and they are off tonight to a Bro Myrddin school "we left 10 years ago" do. Then they are gonna catch up with Julia and Freya who came back from Mcr today and is off to Canada in a couple of days, after she comes here

Summertime

As it hasn't rained for a couple of weeks there has just been a flash of lightening, a clap of thunder and it is now raining very heavily

And more thunder....

Then the sun came out, 20 minutes later the rain had half evaporated, then it started raining again.......

Strange Day

So as I emailed them a couple of days ago and told them I couldn't go to the beach party and it is raining like fsck today I am not missing it. But the reason I am not going is coming to see me s'afternoon with his wife of 2 months and 1 day now which is exciting too

Then s'evening we are going to a Pink Floyd tribute band which will be a bit odd.

Then tomorrow Freya is coming to stay overnight as she is going to Canada for 2 months on Monday

Cooking

And this weekends cooking has gone all out of sync so I cooked this weeks portion s'morning, turned it off and went to the therapist then came back & switched it back on and added lentils etc. The spuds will be baked in half an hour, the lentils will be dun by then

Samless

Then today I can't go to Sam's class (Weeping) because I have to go to the Diabetic Eye Tester on the way to Carmarthen.

Gord nose how and why but there you are, every so often I have a check up I think

And my vision has been blurred ever since. It was about an hour ago and now is the first time I have been able to focus on my phone. It is still wonky but better

Fark. It stayed blurry for a couple of hours but I managed to finish cooking etc. So he said they will write to my Drs and to me in 6/8 weeks and tell him results. Dunno

Thursday Ritual

So we have to do the Thursday morn ritual, go and buy loadsa veg, go and do my More Reasons To Shop At shopping, then we need to pop to the Drs and pick up another 'script then get on with a normal day.

Then tonight there is an Iechyd Da folk club which hopefully will be as much fun as usual

Well that's the morning business done. First of all to the Drs, then got loadsa veg then got f. all from Morrisons, but it's all done. And I said to GGtGG "Shall I cook na'an bread pizza for tea tonight or should we go out and eat out" but then I said "No, because....." if we ate out t'other day, and I am taking Freya out on Sunday I can't afford to eat out tonight so pizza it is

Lordy, GGtGG isn't usually working on a Thursday so he doesn't have pizza very often and he was very impressed with it

AND the folk fest turned out OK too. It was a usual quiet day as it's the summer but some good muso's played

Not Swimming

So despite confusion about whether or not the swimming club was happening today (as it is now school holidays) we have given up trying and I am going to the 2 o'clock gym session instead. Also because I am off on Friday to see some diabetes Dr at the same time as Sam's class so killing 19 birds with 3 stones or summat

Well, but odd. She was comparing me with when we first met, when I was stuck in a wheelchair, the time she first made me walk a few steps etc, comparing it to now.....

Fixed

And my computer in the bedroom which since I bought it has required a strange double switch on ritual, hold it in for 5 seconds then try again this time hold the on switch in for 4 seconds, for about 3 nights it has been just switching on. With no "holding switch" ritual, it just switches on properly when I press the button in