Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Discovered totally new body parts (no, not as in younger days, you naughty). Who would have known that one's leg and body are joined by... a hip joint! Awesome!

Anyways, after a Friday spent working standing up as the aforementioned hip didn't agree with sitting down, I finally put the spare plates etc into boxes and carried them into the garage to the shelf specifically cleared for the purpose.

I feel like a good person now, kitchen cupboards have some room in them and if I ever get 24 people in for a dinner I will just nip into the garage to retrieve the box clearly labelled as "24 dinner plates and a towel from MIL"

 

Oh dear @Selleri I hope that you feel better soon.

 

It has been a good day and a bad day so far ... both related to the same thing.
Another load of firewood was delivered and stacked ...


Then the fireplace glass door cracked and a piece fell out so T'other Half has e-mailed a place who may repair it. This place is across the road from my favourite garden center.

 

Thank you @Logan, I'm all mended now It's just so odd, sometimes a joint flares up and is soooo veryyy painful for a day or two, and then it just goes away. I've had this with thumbs, knees and wrists ever since I was a kid, but a hip joint is a novelty.

My genuine sympathy goes for people with chronic hip troubles, what an annoying place to have pain in!

Spring is peeping around the corner, Robins and Dunnocks are showing interest in the Ivy thicket and Blackbirds are courting and singing.

 

Not sure as to whether to be happy or sad for your dilemma Vicky!!

 

That's great @Selleri and odd that you get that sort of thing.

 

I agree Upsy, but the good thing is the fire still works with the slice out of the top of the glass. We have visitors tomorrow so I am not sure T'other Half cam deal with it then.

 

That's good....got to keep the Furballs toasty.

 

I've started my new diet. Bowl of oats with milk for breakfast and a high protein meal at 1.00 pm - then nothing except for tea and low calorie pop.

I'm not weighing myself - progress will be determined by Mrs Clanless via my (hopefully) shrinking beer belly.

I've always struggled with my weight - no idea why as my brother has always been slim (mind you he also has a full head of hair ).

 

That's great @clanless I have a high fibre diet and a low sugar and fat diet. I do weight myself and I used to measure myself as well, but if I can fit into my clothes then I know I'm on the right track.
Is your brother able to eat everything?

 

@clanless Best of luck in your new endeavour! I'm aiming to lose a couple of stone over Winter/Spring myself. I am overweight for the first time in my life and really shocked by how hard it seems to be to lose weight after 40! (I'm 43). It had always been so easy for me before, a couple of runs a week and I was at about my ideal weight, which is 12 and 3/4 stone. I'm four stone over that ATM!

Nick

 

Nickolaos, hubby was like that,as soon as he reached 40 he started to put it on.

 

I usually put on about 1/2 stone every Christmas/early winter. And I store it in a pouch of blubber at my waist line. Since it is only January, I am just 1/2 way through up stoking the blubber and thinning/pushing back earlier from the feedbag will commence sometime in March!

I am reading through a book about "creative Propagating" and it has a listing for what to do each month.

In January it recommends "going on snow skiing holiday or crossing the Sahara" "anywhere where there is zero vegetation"

 

A friend and I went to the cinema today, I have really missed our sessions during the pandemic so was really looking forward to resuming our monthly ( occasionally more) visits. We went to see Belfast and it was very good. May not be politically accurate enough for some but the storyline was depicted through the eyes ( and ears) of a 9year old boy.
It was written and directed by Kenneth Branagh about his childhood during the beginning of the troubles which eventually led to his family leaving Ireland and making a new life in Reading Uk.

 

Very good @Upsydaisy I saw a trailer for that film on the BBC news channel with Mark Kermode doing reviews.