I am enjoying the new recumbent exercise bike. In a week I have worked up from 15 minutes to 30 minutes a day. The main problem I have is being too enthusiastic – I am trying not to take my heart rate over 145 for the first few weeks as I haven’t been able to […]
I think one of the cats (I am still blaming Saphy) had at least three rodents yesterday. The picture is of her chilling after her big day with an abortive picture of Victorian Helensburgh I was trying to paint. One rodent was dead on my doorsill as per yesterday’s post. The second looked dead as […]
R is away at a conference. Last night I went to bed around 11pm as usual. I take the Aircast boot off at night and I am not supposed to put weight on my foot without it, so if I need to get up during the night, I have to either put it back on […]
I notice that Sex Education (as it used to be called) is back in the news. I was a very precocious child and was able to read from age of three (my dad taught me in spite of dire warnings from the educational establishment that this was a bad idea). From books and listening in […]
Firstly – I strongly dislike the modern tendency to use male terms to describe women. For example, I would never refer to a female thespian as an “actor”. To me this is all part of an erosion of women’s place in society – but I won’t get started on that in case I annoy R […]
I just got a new credit card. R and I had been after a card that gave us airmiles, as with his conferences he is stacking up quite a lot of them. If we can get £12000 purchases on it, our new BA Amex lets us get a “Companion voucher” which basically means two tickets […]
The above is our new recumbent exercise bike (a Schwinn – hence the joke!) – another attempt by me to keep fit without putting too much stress on my foot. R gets an allowance from his employers each month to pay for fitness related things – so this will be going towards paying for it. […]
Cats don’t greatly like organised exercise and strongly object to other people partaking of it. The girls did an occupation of the bed I use for leg exercises as a protest and stopped me from doing them. That’s my story and I am sticking to it.
Nothing by my former standard, but I walked with R all the way to Inveronich house which was the furthest I have been on the reconstructed foot as yet. It was fine, but although I am now only using one crutch in the house, I took both outside because it is very rough under foot. […]
R went out on his nightly mission to put peanuts out for “the creatures”. But one of the creatures had forestalled him, had knocked the lid off the galvanized bin we use to store the nuts and was happily guzzling away. It was a pine marten! When it saw R, it went away and hid […]
