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May 13th, 2024

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Schwinn to win

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. […]

May 9th, 2024

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Exercise obstacles

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.

May 9th, 2024

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Longer walk today

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. […]

May 8th, 2024

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Pine Marten excitement

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 […]

May 8th, 2024

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More on the water works

The waterworks upgrade is progressing at pace. All the trees that Jack Ewing had planted nearly 20 years ago have been cut down which is very sad. I know the work has to be done, but they could have gone to more effort to preserve the trees. They have promised to put them back – […]

May 7th, 2024

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Garden looking lovely

R took this photo of the garden which is looking lovely if a little scruffy. At least I can go outside and appreciate it now, although I can’t make it across the rough ground to the bluebell wood yet. The bluebells are out, however, and I am going to send R on a mission to […]

May 7th, 2024

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Chocolates

I’m not a massive chocolate fan and in fact I positively dislike cheap “kiddy style” milk and white chocolate. By which I mean most British chocolate like dairy milk etc. What I do like, is 85% dark chocolate, and after lunch every day, I have a few squares with my coffee. R likes the sort […]

May 5th, 2024

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Shoes

I’ve been walking on crutches quite a lot this week. I am up to 50 lengths of the hall today, plus I walked down to the bottom of the drive and back. This is more of an achievement than it sounds, as it is 72m long and on a steepish hill. This time last week […]

May 5th, 2024

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What’s black and heavy?

A 5kg barbell or Amber? Actually we think she is heavier than it is. I wanted to give her the name Blump (from black lump), but Rory wouldn’t hear of it. Also it may be racist and get me reported to the Thought Police.

May 3rd, 2024

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Ventured out

Nice day today, so I went outside walking on my crutches to sit on the patio with R for half an hour – it was 24 degrees in the sun and both of the cats went off to hide in the shade. I’d no difficulty walking up and down the steps. I do have a […]