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