Well that wasn’t very good was it? So much for my writing a bit each day. And I don’t really know where the time has gone. Ok, I did finish up with Chris’ tax return – which got delayed a bit while we asked a couple of questions of the company accountant – and then after that I put together the book-keeping for his new company and brought it up to date, and that took a while. I also seem to have got most of my bits and pieces straight and up to date, so I’m feeling quite pleased and as though a weight has been lifted.
In terms of what else we have been up to in the interim, we went to London two Sunday’s ago for our ‘Christmas’ visit to Chris’ parents, his middle brother and his wife. On the way there we stopped off at Virginia Water lake to give the dogs a bit of a walk. If we don’t do that they are not only over excited by the time we arrive (which they are anyway, but would be a lot worse) but they don’t get any exercise during the day either. And Virginia Water is handy, being just off the M3, and is a lovely spot to walk. For those of you who don’t know, Virginia Water is part of the royal parks at Windsor. You can read about it here, plus take a look at the gallery:
Our actual visit to Chris’ family was dominated by football: it was called ‘Super Sunday’ as there were 3 matches on back to back which everyone bar Rosa (Chris’ sister-in-law) and I wanted to watch. So the TV was on the whole time. We did manage at least some conversation though, and Rosa had made a lovely lunch, with an even lovelier chocolate cake. There are photos from the day on my photo blog.
Last week we had one or two really nice sunny days, although we had some fairly hard frosts. It meant that I was able to get a few photos when I was walking the dogs (also on my photo blog, and on my Flickr stream). We have stopped walking Max so much again, though, as he has started limping badly again. To make matters worse he is skipping steps with his back right leg – not a good sign. However, I’ve watched him the last couple of times I’ve taken him out (Saturday and today), and he only does it about 5 minutes into his walk for about 5 minutes, then stops. If it doesn’t improve though I’ll have to take him back to the vet. Meanwhile we are swimming him twice a day every other day, with a short walk and a swim on the other, alternate, days.
Jez isn’t that great either – she’s not putting her full weight on her back right leg. Generally it doesn’t seem to be bothering her, although she refused to go for a walk one day last week, so I put her back on her meds for a couple of days. She has to go to the vet on Wednesday for her annual check up and booster, so I’ll get them to have a quick look at her then. We’re assuming it’s something to do with her spine, but I’ll get them to check just in case it’s a problem with her leg. This is the one that she’s had 3 operations on to stop her knee slipping out of joint, so I hope it’s not her knee.
On Thursday I had a check up with the podiatrist, who was really pleased with the progress on my foot. I have to go back again in 4 months. As I had to go into Poole for the appointment I did a bit of shopping using gift cards that Chris had I have had over the past 2 years. So I ended up buying the Blu-ray version of all 3 Bourne films, together with a Blu-ray version of all 4 Dirty Harry films. I’m not sure when we’ll get round to watching them though. We seem to be struggling to get through all of the TV programmes and the rentals that we’ve got. On top of that I’ve given Chris all 5 series of Supernatural, so we’re watching series 1-4 again in order to finally catch up and get to watch series 5 for the first time. Then we’ve got into the habit of taking Jez for a night-time walk, since she only has one walk during the day at the moment; and that interrupts our evening. She does love it though: she gets out there and does a full speed Staffy strut all the way round, trailing us behind her.
This Sunday morning I gave Max a good clip – he’d go so shaggy that it made him look a lot fatter than he actually is. After that we went to Dad and Pat’s for lunch. Dad had cooked a piece of gammon he’d bought thinking we’d go over Boxing Day although he didn’t actually ask us until a couple of days before, by which time I’d got food in myself. And Pat made the lemon chiffon pie that I gave her the recipe for. It was a really nice lunch, and the dogs always enjoy going over there.
There, I seem to be about up to date. I can’t let this entry pass, though, without comment on the two Sky commentators who made derogatory off-air comments about a woman lineswoman at a footie match on Saturday. They suggested someone should go down and explain the off-side rule to her, as being a woman she wouldn’t know it: I suggest they try explaining it to a lot of the male commentators, who frequently get it wrong. There comments were totally uncalled for. And what have Sky done? Given them a gentle slap on the wrist and stopped them from commentating on tonight’s match. In my view they should have been sacked: that’s what would have happened if they had made a racist comment. But apparently in Sky’s view, sexism in the workplace is ok. At least it reminded me to cancel my subscription to Sky Sports though, so I suppose some good came of it.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Thursday, 4 March 2010
I was going round and round the hotel garage
Well so much for my regular blogging! Too many distractions at the moment, I think. I’ll try and fill in most of the key bits of the past couple of weeks since I last posted, although I think I’ll leave the saga of my falling out with B&Q until I’ve got a bit more time.
So the Wii arrived. I’m very pleased with it, and have been having lots of fun. I’m using the balance board to do some warm up type exercises and hoola hoop stuff, but am still doing my pilates. I’m useless at the balance games on it, but they’re still good fun. I seem to excess at the obstacle course in the Wii Fit Plus games for some reason.
At Katja’s recommendation I bought Mario Kart and Chris & I are now wasting many hours failing to win a race! That’s not strictly true, but there are some courses where I don’t seem to be able to come anywhere other than last. If I thought I was bad at driving in GTA IV then I’m hopeless in this. I also splashed out (well used my Tesco reward vouchers) to buy Band Hero (with the guitar, mic & drum kit) and the Beatles Band Hero game. We haven’t even attempted the drums yet, but are totally useless at the guitar. I don’t think I’ll ever be capable of progressing to using all 5 buttons. But then, in a way, who cares – we are having fun and enjoying ourselves. I think it’s rather surprised Chris – he didn’t think he’d use it, but is enjoying it. Then yesterday I bought the Dance routine game, as Maria said it was really good exercise and I enjoy dancing. But it’s odd. I always thought I had quite a good sense of rhythm, but either the game/remotes are playing up or my timing is crap.
This week Tiger Woods PGA tour golf arrived on loan from my DVD rental company. Chris was a bit miffed that I could hit the ball a lot further than him right from the start. And he found it really tiring (mainly cos he kept taking massive swings at balls which failed to go the distance in the tutorials – LOL!). I’ve told him it’s good exercise. I got a big groan when I asked if he, as he was playing as Tiger Woods, he got to shag the women in the crowd.
So, that’s the Wii.
Last Saturday was my Dad’s birthday, so I asked him and Pat over for Sunday lunch. I did the Caribbean Pot Roast again as it was so nice. It was a good choice. At 89 Pat doesn’t tend to eat a lot, but she kept taking more and said it was the nicest meal she’d had in years. I was really pleased. In the afternoon I introduced them to the Wii which was fun. They enjoyed it, and Pat did really well at the boxing! Anyway, here’s a couple of photos from Sunday for you.
I was beginning to think that we’d never see the last of the rain. I am sick of tired of muddy walks, muddy dogs and a muddy house. And I’m forever cleaning. But the weather looks as though it might finally have broken the past couple of days as we’ve been having quite a bit of sunshine. It’s making walks a lot more pleasant, as you can see from the photos I took at Hamworthy on Tuesday.
Also, since my last blog, cattle have been bought over to this side of Canford Heath as part of the heath maintenance programme. They keep back the gorse and trample in seeds etc, apparently. We managed to meet them last week – Jez and Max were most excited. There are about 8-10 of them, I think (they were in the trees when we met them). I was surprised how big they were – for some reason I had been expecting them to be slightly smaller (although it’s not as though I don’t know how big a cow is).
Better go now – Chris is on his way home with the dogs and I’ll be expected to towel Max off.
So the Wii arrived. I’m very pleased with it, and have been having lots of fun. I’m using the balance board to do some warm up type exercises and hoola hoop stuff, but am still doing my pilates. I’m useless at the balance games on it, but they’re still good fun. I seem to excess at the obstacle course in the Wii Fit Plus games for some reason.
At Katja’s recommendation I bought Mario Kart and Chris & I are now wasting many hours failing to win a race! That’s not strictly true, but there are some courses where I don’t seem to be able to come anywhere other than last. If I thought I was bad at driving in GTA IV then I’m hopeless in this. I also splashed out (well used my Tesco reward vouchers) to buy Band Hero (with the guitar, mic & drum kit) and the Beatles Band Hero game. We haven’t even attempted the drums yet, but are totally useless at the guitar. I don’t think I’ll ever be capable of progressing to using all 5 buttons. But then, in a way, who cares – we are having fun and enjoying ourselves. I think it’s rather surprised Chris – he didn’t think he’d use it, but is enjoying it. Then yesterday I bought the Dance routine game, as Maria said it was really good exercise and I enjoy dancing. But it’s odd. I always thought I had quite a good sense of rhythm, but either the game/remotes are playing up or my timing is crap.
This week Tiger Woods PGA tour golf arrived on loan from my DVD rental company. Chris was a bit miffed that I could hit the ball a lot further than him right from the start. And he found it really tiring (mainly cos he kept taking massive swings at balls which failed to go the distance in the tutorials – LOL!). I’ve told him it’s good exercise. I got a big groan when I asked if he, as he was playing as Tiger Woods, he got to shag the women in the crowd.
So, that’s the Wii.
Last Saturday was my Dad’s birthday, so I asked him and Pat over for Sunday lunch. I did the Caribbean Pot Roast again as it was so nice. It was a good choice. At 89 Pat doesn’t tend to eat a lot, but she kept taking more and said it was the nicest meal she’d had in years. I was really pleased. In the afternoon I introduced them to the Wii which was fun. They enjoyed it, and Pat did really well at the boxing! Anyway, here’s a couple of photos from Sunday for you.
I was beginning to think that we’d never see the last of the rain. I am sick of tired of muddy walks, muddy dogs and a muddy house. And I’m forever cleaning. But the weather looks as though it might finally have broken the past couple of days as we’ve been having quite a bit of sunshine. It’s making walks a lot more pleasant, as you can see from the photos I took at Hamworthy on Tuesday.
Also, since my last blog, cattle have been bought over to this side of Canford Heath as part of the heath maintenance programme. They keep back the gorse and trample in seeds etc, apparently. We managed to meet them last week – Jez and Max were most excited. There are about 8-10 of them, I think (they were in the trees when we met them). I was surprised how big they were – for some reason I had been expecting them to be slightly smaller (although it’s not as though I don’t know how big a cow is).
Better go now – Chris is on his way home with the dogs and I’ll be expected to towel Max off.
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Welcome to Reality
I had a lovely birthday on Sunday. Ok I was cleaning & cooking in the morning, but after that it was lovely. We had a really nice piece of roast pork: it was from a farm just up the road – not sure of the breed but it was some special breed. I slow roasted it, and it just fell apart. The flavour was beautiful. We had profiteroles for dessert. This is me on the sofa with Dad, Pat and Max after lunch…
And here’s a nice shot of Pat & Max…
I had a new small shoulderbag for my birthday – I wanted it to take when walking the dogs and it’s a sort of camouflage colour, so it shouldn’t show the dirt! I had a Gorillapod (a small flexible tripod) for the camera as well, plus the Bowie Reality CD and a couple of computer games. Problem is one of the games (Grand Theft Auto IV) won’t work on my laptop, which is a blow. I also had money, so am planning to get some make up that I can’t really justify the expense of otherwise.
Of course, Jez couldn’t let my birthday pass without playing up for Christopher when he took her for a walk before lunch. He had to take her over Canford Heath as they’d closed Delph Woods for maintenance work, which meant there were loads of dogs over the Heath. Chris lost her for over 40 minutes, although he did know roughly where she was and occasionally catch sight of her.
On the subject of Jez, the lump on her side doesn’t look very nice. I think it’s slightly ulcerated, so I’m bathing it in salt water to see if it will clear up. If it doesn’t it will have to come out. As for her leg, I tried giving her her anit-inflammatories for 4 days, and she didn’t seem to hold her leg up as much. She was also a lot livelier. More importantly though she has clearly been worse since coming off them again. I’ve put in a call to her orthopaedic vet today, as this would suggest she’s in pain and that holding her leg up isn’t just habit. I had a chat with her physio today again, and wondered whether we were aggravating it on her walks. Interestingly, I didn’t throw things for her to chase on our walk today and shortened the walk slightly and she seems to have been slightly better.
Let me see – what else. Well it’s been very cold her the past few days. The wind has been bitterly cold. We even had a few flurries of snow today. Then yesterday, at 7.30am, I was rudely awakened by the doorbell: it was the men delivering our bookcases & bedside cabinets. I ask you – what sort of time is that to get people up? I had to answer the door in my pyjamas.
Tuesday therefore we put together the big bookcase (the small one was already made up as it was the display model). I also put together the 2 bedside cabinets. Since then I’ve been busy sorting things out, putting them away, moving stuff around. It’s slowly coming together though. I did find some interesting things when clearing out though. Well, I say ‘interesting’ – more ‘why have I still got that’. In one of the old bedside cabinets were all of the cards we received when we got married. Trouble is, I can’t quite bring myself to throw them out. I also found all of the exam papers from my O and A levels (school exams we used to take at 16 and 18 for you non-Brits). I haven’t thrown them out yet – I thought I might try a few out on you in the coming days.
Well I think that’s about it for today. I’d better get this posted.
And here’s a nice shot of Pat & Max…
I had a new small shoulderbag for my birthday – I wanted it to take when walking the dogs and it’s a sort of camouflage colour, so it shouldn’t show the dirt! I had a Gorillapod (a small flexible tripod) for the camera as well, plus the Bowie Reality CD and a couple of computer games. Problem is one of the games (Grand Theft Auto IV) won’t work on my laptop, which is a blow. I also had money, so am planning to get some make up that I can’t really justify the expense of otherwise.
Of course, Jez couldn’t let my birthday pass without playing up for Christopher when he took her for a walk before lunch. He had to take her over Canford Heath as they’d closed Delph Woods for maintenance work, which meant there were loads of dogs over the Heath. Chris lost her for over 40 minutes, although he did know roughly where she was and occasionally catch sight of her.
On the subject of Jez, the lump on her side doesn’t look very nice. I think it’s slightly ulcerated, so I’m bathing it in salt water to see if it will clear up. If it doesn’t it will have to come out. As for her leg, I tried giving her her anit-inflammatories for 4 days, and she didn’t seem to hold her leg up as much. She was also a lot livelier. More importantly though she has clearly been worse since coming off them again. I’ve put in a call to her orthopaedic vet today, as this would suggest she’s in pain and that holding her leg up isn’t just habit. I had a chat with her physio today again, and wondered whether we were aggravating it on her walks. Interestingly, I didn’t throw things for her to chase on our walk today and shortened the walk slightly and she seems to have been slightly better.
Let me see – what else. Well it’s been very cold her the past few days. The wind has been bitterly cold. We even had a few flurries of snow today. Then yesterday, at 7.30am, I was rudely awakened by the doorbell: it was the men delivering our bookcases & bedside cabinets. I ask you – what sort of time is that to get people up? I had to answer the door in my pyjamas.
Tuesday therefore we put together the big bookcase (the small one was already made up as it was the display model). I also put together the 2 bedside cabinets. Since then I’ve been busy sorting things out, putting them away, moving stuff around. It’s slowly coming together though. I did find some interesting things when clearing out though. Well, I say ‘interesting’ – more ‘why have I still got that’. In one of the old bedside cabinets were all of the cards we received when we got married. Trouble is, I can’t quite bring myself to throw them out. I also found all of the exam papers from my O and A levels (school exams we used to take at 16 and 18 for you non-Brits). I haven’t thrown them out yet – I thought I might try a few out on you in the coming days.
Well I think that’s about it for today. I’d better get this posted.
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