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I'm feeling a bit of here we go again right now. Today I have had a full set of bloods taken and next week I am to become a guinea pig at my local surgery. It appears I may be suffering from long covid. Fatigue, joint pain and swelling, elevated blood pressure, headaches and anxiety have all come to reside in my body, and what I put down to purely stress after returning to work after having covid may have been the start of it. So rest...being kind to myself...good walks...and healthy food are the order of the day for now...which is actually what life should be full of anyway.

Last weekend we hired a small digger and it was duly driven by hubby through our side passage on a homemade wooden ramp. Was the weather kind...not at all...it snowed, the east wind blew and hubby wore gloves and socks on his hands in order to stop them from freezing. I did my best to keep everyone fed. The stumps that needed removing were removed and pits were dug. Our garden now resembles a bomb site but I'm assured it will all be worth it in the end when the fence is finished and the fruit trees and bushes have been planted.

We have celebrated youngest grandsons first birthday...it doesn't seem possible that the little dear is now one. Trouble ahead I forsee!!

I have been looking up details of apple varieties that we could plant up against the new fence...a good keeper and a Christmas apple are amongst my desires. Any suggestions?

Right my aching wrists have about had enough for now.

Blessings,

J. x

Rinse and Repeat

Life goes on here apace at Little Winter...however I am a little encumbered by my back playing up again.

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It started sometime before Christmas...I know exactly when I overstretched, and have been trying to keep on plodding along with all things required. I have a week off booked in a couple of weeks and was trying desperately to survive until then. However a week ago on Thursday a client gave me a shove on my right hip area...ouch, the pain was immense. I just about survived my shift, but ended up 'sleeping' on our living room floor with my legs raised up on our sofa. I did that for the next four nights. I was due to work last Saturday...hubby looked at me hobbling along and said 'you're not going to work like that'...I knew in my heart I shouldn't and really couldn't, but it took his command to get me to phone in.

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Currently I am signed off for two weeks, and then have my weeks holiday. I really hope that will be the end of this episode. I make sure to walk down the lane and back up each day no matter what the weather. I'm avoiding taking any really strong medication as it just turns me into a  zombie, and I know I really need to keep moving.

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I am pottering and doing what I can. Sitting is the worst and so I minimise that as much as possible. The jigsaw puzzle that I started weeks ago is coming along but very slowly. I look at it late each afternoon with a cup of tea and hope to put in a few pieces, but that is all. Then the large piece of kitten proof card gets placed back over the top until the next afternoon.

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We have submitted our plans for our extension, and await the results. Hubby says we can't begin to plan what we want until we know for sure what we'll be building...however in the next breath wants to know the depth of my choice of kitchen floor tiles and colour of sockets! Men!!

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Wilbur had his little operation a few weeks ago, and appears to have come through with his mischevious streak intact. I purchased a huge roll of sisal rope and have covered the post that supports our stairs where the understairs cupboard used to be, and also the bottom stair post. My they have lots of fun shimmying up those. Being indoor cats I cannot complain about the odd scratch...however I now place them on the sisal if I catch them reaching up to scratch anything else...small square lamp table I know of your suffering!!

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Hubby and son in law laid down a concrete pad in our vegetable plot last weekend and have just gone to the farm to fetch our not been used for ten years greenhouse...I hope it all goes as well as possible. I remember the people I purchased it from kind of taking two days to erect it many years ago. Me thinks I'll be keeping well out of the way...maybe I'll make something nice in the kitchen to pacify any potential male tantrums!

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So for now...from Kitty, Wilbur and I blessings,

J. x