Friday - a walk with friends around the grounds of a stately home, then later a brisk walk up a hill with a suitcase to my brother's house.

Lelephant was delivered instead of the socks I ordered for my mother about five years ago. The shop said to keep him as well as the refund. I find that cuddling him helps me to keep from kinking my back when I lie on my side.

I was in Oxford today, so took a couple of wanders around there.

Okay. That's really surprising to me. I speak to everyone I meet while hiking - usually just a hello, but if we both happen to stop in the same place we will discuss the path, the weather, the view.

Brilliant news!

Lovely!

I took the train down to southern England today to visit friends and family. I had to cross London, so I took the tube to Hyde Park Corner and walked across the park to Paddington. Barely a couple of miles but at least it was something. The picture is of a mews house I saw on the way - mews were the stabling and coach houses behind grand residences, but they are now very pricy homes. They often don't have gardens, so owners put serious work into planting the frontage.

The Rest is History

When we moved to Scotland my son saw a speech therapist for his stutter - which later disappeared. The ST said that had he been a Scot she would also have worked on his soft R, but as he had a southern English mother it was harmonious. My daughter had a very musical intonation as a small child because we had a Filipina household helper. This waned when we moved away. Husband was working long hours when the kids were small, so they gained indeterminate expatriate accents with very little American.

OK. I understand the extrapolation, but I meet men in the woods all the time and don't think twice about it. That's very different, to me, from a dark street.

In addition to PT exercises, swimming has been the most helpful to me. Could you go to a pool with a friend and trade off children while one of you swims?

I don't think that you need to take responsibility for a meaningful break. So long as she's not on screens all the time, leaving it up to her to work it out is fine, even if she is 'stuck ' at home. Learning to deal with boredom is a skill.

I'm glad you managed to sleep. Monday - quick swim first thing then a walk up the Den at lunchtime. I will try for some sun salutations later.

I'm not enormously hopeful that they will go for it - it really depends how valuable I am to them at that point. I was explicitly asked not to request it right now.

My sister has been diagnosed with this and it runs in families. My doctor has run a standard fasting blood panel on me and is now seeking advice from the specialist lipid clinic.

Update in first post.

Sunday - I borrowed an e-bike and rode for 80 minutes. It was a lot of fun. I plan on some sun salutations later.

Today - just an hour of gentle gardening and a walk up the Den. Eta and I did two modified sun salutations, which don't seem to have been such a bad idea as they were last time I tried.

Looks good! I'm going to have to check the height of our cook books against the available height of cabinets. I don't think we want to go too custom.

Thanks I think I was hoping for some kind of pull out solution, so that we can use the full depth for books. We have big trays and such stashed above the oven.

The kitchen ceiling is low. If we put a cupboard above the fridge, the line between it and the boxing above will be different to that of the units to the left. What we really need is shelving for cookbooks - it's fine for them to be high up because we don't use them much. But the space is so deep that I'm not sure how practical that is. The space is just 15" high and 28" deep. Eta I suddenly thought of a carousel/ spinner on a shelf for books?

You may need to go and delete some of your old photos here - I have to do that periodically. Glad you had a great time!

Husband and I went swimming this morning. I'm enjoying it so much more since I started to do a kind of HIIT workout - 25m as fast as I can and then 75m of recovery. It's much less boring than just ploughing up and down. Going regularly also means that my kit is always ready and I know how to change efficiently. 650m swum today. Otherwise, just some housework. Just got my bloodwork back - cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugar and blood pressure all fine. I'm waiting for input from a specialist clinic though because my sister has been diagnosed with high lipoprotein (a). MRI on my back just shows normal wear and tear and a mildly bulging disk. I'm to continue with physio and exercise.

Ecco? They have dress shoes. This is the UK site but you should be able to find them https://gb.ecco.com/en-GB/product/5643404139/ECCO-SCULPTED-LX https://gb.ecco.com/en-GB/product/5642716266/ECCO-ANINE

I used to write instruction manuals for Acer Computing when I lived in Taiwan. Imagine a twenty-two year old on their gap year writing the manual - there may be no English-speaking editor and the writer is having fun.