I lay awake for much of
the night llistening for a storm which never really came. We had some
heavy rain, but at no point did we have "hurricane Holy Sh*t"
which had been both forecast and promised.
I eventually staggered
out of my pit shortly after 7am, and over brekkie had a look-see
what was going on in the world via Facebook. There wasn't much
happening really. I then spent a few minutes trying to get up from
the sofa. Overnight my back had got really painful.
Probably as a result of
pushing a car out of a ditch three days ago when it was still bad
from carrying a fridge about five days ago.
I took "Furry
Face TM" out for a walk. This morning
seemed really quiet. Usually 8.30am on a Friday morning has people
busying about all over the placce. Today we hardly saw anyone. Mind
you"Furry Face TM" had a woof at
all of those that we did see. There was a dodgy episode when he
lunged at another dog, slipped on wet fallen leaves, skidded and
turned a full somersault in mid air. He crashed down very heavily on
his side. I was rather worried; for a few minutes after that he
seemed very subdued and his tail was down. But no serious harm seems
to have been done.
We walked into Stanhope
to collect my car; we'd left it with Lisa and Earle overnight. I had
planned to blag some more brekkie from them, but seeing no lights on
I wrongly assumed they were asleep and so didn't knock. It turned out
that they were up; I should have knocked.
Once home er indoors
TM" set off shopping. I put the
(hopefully) fininshing touches to a year's homework and then
spent two hours struggling with Feigenbaum's constants. If any of my
loyal readers are feeling particularly clever maybe they could have a
look at this puzzle.
After two hours I gave up
and played Candy Crush until er indoors TM"
came home with cakes. With cakes scoffed we went shopping for a bit.
We didn't get as much done as I would have liked; my back hurt too
much. Getting in and out of the car took serious effort, and walking
with any speed just wasn't going to happen.
I then made a phone call
or two to send my apologies to the astro club's meeting plaanned for
this evening. My back had become so painful I actually felt
physically sick. I would have been no company at astro club, so
instead we had a quiet night in. Pickles and baked leeks and ham went
down very nicely as we watched the Christmas "Downton Abbey"
and Wallace and Gromit and all sorts of stuff recorded onto the
SkyPlus box. It would have been a really good evening if only I had
been able to move about...
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