Day 129

I managed to get out of bed this morning, so that's a plus! Back still painful but i think the rest did me good.
Very overcast this morning but Tim thought it would be good if we did something today as its the last day of the holidays.
Decided to go to Sheringham, one of our favourite places on the Norfolk coast.
Driving through the Fens the smell of rotten vegetation permeated through the car. The fields looked sodden, huge areas of water lay on the fields where new shoots were appearing. The fields of winter cabbages and leaks were dying. This was where the smell was coming from. I wonder if this was similar to when the Potato famine in Ireland occurred. It has been said that you could smell the rotten potatoes across the sea to England. Thank goodness there is no other comparison.
If i could describe the landscape now, the fields that were once black ploughed fields resemble a mans new beard growth. There is a haze of green coming through where new growth is trying to push through. It wont be long now before colour comes back into our lives. The birds are making nests and the crows, yes i know I'm always talking about them are gathering in large numbers i the tree tops. An owl flying along side the road swooping into the ditches. A glorious sight on a miserable January day.
A deer lay by the side of the road on the approach to Sherringham, a small monk jack knocked over during the night or early hours. It looked so sad alone by the road.
The sea was grey today, how strange that we can see the horizon in all directions in front of us. A flat yet undulating expanse of water and behind us as far as the eye can see flat landscape again as  far as we can see. A dry ocean!
The steam train was running today. The last mince pie run of the season!! It has a fascination for young and old, these majestic trains, almost living  beasts hissing and breathing noisily. The whistle blows, the toot of the horn and then the great breath and effort of moving forwards gradually gaining momentum, breathing becomes less laboured until it pulls out of the station with ease, great bouts of black smoke pouring from the funnel. A joyful change in tempo as it is let lose to run, the smoke now white and the smell of burning coal drifts across the spectators. No wonder so many come to watch. Tim bought Mikey here in the Summer, just the two of them and then we managed another day when i took some time off. It was a cold day then.

Tonight Tim has given me a massage!! my word i wouldn't employ him, but i managed to dig out a machine i bought years ago, checked that it worked and Tim used that. It was fab. See boys the useless items i buy do come in handy!!1. OK so i did buy it 20 years ago, but who's counting!! It still works. Now i wonder if that facial steamer that's in the cupboard still works. Lord knows i can do with all the help i can get at the moment. Not for my back!! but lets just say my chins are heading south!!

I think the wheat bags have helped tonight as well as the vitamin tablets, anti-inflammatory tablets and the stick on patches!!! at this rate i should be as fit as a butchers dog soon. If not there is always that lovely physio i can go and see. Um, there's a thought.

I do hope i am being more positive. Mikey is always in our thoughts and everything I'm doing is for him. Its a small token of saying thank you to all the team that looked after him at Papworth. So i will persevere, run! or walk through the pain barrier nothing is going to stop me now!!

Sisters are doing well!! looks like i will get the booby prise when we meet at the end of the month, or i will be paying for lunches!! that's one jacket potato, four forks and a black coffee each then!! Jens been walking, Linda, well i better not discuss here what she has been up to and Joy now then she has been very quiet, i bet shes joined a gym knowing her!!

Tomorrow i must try and down load some photos from the camera!! I'm getting a little slack, ah well i can only say its pain that's stopped me, no well maybe not.

It talks of a smattering of snow tomorrow but not going to settle. Thank goodness. I fell and broke my wrist a year ago this month. So much has happened since then, I'm not going to dwell on that, must look forward, and where I'm going!!!
It is with some trepidation I'm thinking of my next meeting at the athletic club but as Keith said, Run a lamp post distance and walk two lamp post distance and then gradually increase. I will have to see how i get on. I have tried to do a tip toe run in the bungalow tonight, well a few steps, eek!
ah well Tomorrow is another day...........