Tuesday 25th August 2020 Day 154
9.55 I didn’t go to bed until a quarter to three last night, or rather this morning. I just knew I wasn’t going to sleep which is what happens when I am over tired. I go to sleep eventually and wake at seven and now to my horror it is nearly ten o clock, I must have suddenly gone off and slept like a log. I am just thinking it doesn’t really matter, it’s pouring with rain, I have no commitments, then I remember that at ten o clock, we have the zoom slimming group meeting. No time for a shower, chuck on yesterday’s clothes, brush hair a bit, glasses will have to do instead of contacts, make a quick cup of tea and arrive on zoom ten minutes late. I would have felt like I had let the side down as there are only three of us who are not prepared to attend the meetings at the hall yet.
To be honest we don’t talk about losing weight much, share the odd recipe and chat about other stuff quite a bit. It seems from our leader that we only have till the end of September to continue zoom, after which we will have to go to the hall…. One in, one out, keep your shoes on, don’t linger!
10.45 Audrey has taken a dim view of my late arrival downstairs this morning but thank goodness, the back foot seems a whole lot better, I don’t see her lifting it at all. It makes me think it must have been some sort of sprain and I did the best thing by not walking her or throwing the ball which in truth she wasn’t really asking me to do. This morning however is different, she is playful and wants the ball thrown but I think that has to be resisted still for the moment.
The weather has been so strange, yesterday pleasant sunny intervals, today grey and stair rodding it down and very windy. I used to love wind when I lived in Cornwall as a child, especially when it reached gale force and whipped the sea to a frenzy. Wind that would literally knock you back as you tried to walk a cliff path; it was exciting but these days I’ve noticed it makes me irritable and I just wish it would stop. I guess it’s true that the older you get, the grumpier you get! Several of the pots on the patio have blown over, I’ve given up trying to stand them up again.
16.00 Audrey is very definitely wanting to go for a walk after two days cooped up and the leg is still looking ok, so I decide we will go for a short one first to see how it goes, no ball throwing.
It goes well, no sign of pain, she doesn’t try to chase the deer over the other side of the field who are close together and probably considering game plans for the up coming rutting season, which is when we will take our leave from field walking for a while, just to keep safe.