Living where we do we are hugely reliant on Amazon.  I’ve actually been a customer since 2005 when they were a shop that sold “papery reading things” and have seen them metamorphosize into what they are today.  I’ve quite literally had 1000s of orders from them. Yesterday I had cause to edit my profile (to […]

Lucky came into my office.  I have a mirror near the floor which I use to monitor my progress with my foot.  The two girls have never shown the least bit of interest in it, but all of a sudden Lucky caught sight of himself in it.  He watched himself intently for a while, and […]

Well after all our precautions there was basically no storm here – just a bit of wind and rain (nothing to compare with last year thank God).  R and I walked down by the river and there was only one small tree down. The only other thing that we saw “down” was this – a […]

Out of the house again and walked round the community garden and the river walk (1.5m). I was hobbling a bit by the end of it, but I’m making progress. The weather was really beautiful and our plan today had been to go to the Tree Shop at the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar and buy […]

Ye Saga Continueth… Now having formally discarded the boot, my target is to be walking five miles a day (ok – most days) by Christmas. Actually, by a sheer co-incidence, a further ten weeks from the second operation takes us to Christmas, so this will be five months from the operation and I am hoping […]

As you will have probably gathered, my nickname is Maz (this was from when my brother was a little boy and couldn’t say “Marion”. He said “Mazion” instead – so Maz is short for that). I made this progress chart when I came out of hospital after the operation. It is probably very sad, but […]

Saphy making herself comfortable ready for a good night’s sleep. Little does she know she is not getting one because that is my pillow she is on. In about 90 seconds she is getting relegated to the foot of the bed. Amber is in the room but not in the photo as she is in […]

I walked down to the end of the hydro road and back today. It was 0.7 miles there and back so that is me somewhat on the way to my target of “five miles by Christmas”. It has been a nice day and after babying me back to the house, J went on a further […]

I managed to rescue a little robin from Saphy today. She had brought it in to the house and was crouching over it in a menacing fashion. I picked it up and could feel it moving so I shut Saphy in the room and took the robin outside. I stood with it on the palm […]

I am walking pretty well in my shoes now, although I do not officially discard the boot entirely until next week (ten weeks after my revision operation). I walked most of the way down to the main road along the “hydro road” (which is what R and I call the bit they tarmacked when they […]