Happy Monday!

Last week was hot and busy. And I need to explain the harder with one leg thing. This weekend we were listening to the news and they had a piece on Jonty Warneken, who swam solo from Northern Ireland to Scotland. They talked about it being one of the hardest ocean swims (it’s 21km and it’s not an easy calm sea and there are Lion’s Mane jellyfish too) and that he got stung several times. Ok fair enough, and then he said “and it’s much harder to do with only one leg”

Ma and I felt that this was burying the lede and it should have started with ‘Amputee swims the north Channel’, which this story does. All weekend, like children we have been saying ‘ah but it’s harder with only one leg’ and I keep thinking about the Tarzan sketch.

Last week was so busy, I didn’t get home from work on Tuesday until 8:45pm and had to be up the next day at 5.30am to go to the Southampton office for a training day. We have definitely come back from summer, it’s like someone has turned on a firehose of work and are spraying it all over.

It was also the hottest week of the year, so that was fun!

I also had an appointment to see the asthma nurse on Friday, and she confirmed that yes I do still have asthma, although the ‘puff test’ (I don’t know what you actually call it, but you need to blow hard into a tube) was worse than last time, it’s still better than the measure, so that’s good and I’m all ok for repeat prescriptions as we go into winter and cold season. Next week, I have a flu jab and then as my Grandad would say “God willing” no more doctors appointments for a while!

The weekend was also busy. Ma came over on Friday night and we were up and on the plot at 7.30am and again on Sunday. We also finally dealt with the garlic. I spent Sunday afternoon on a bus, I took Ma back on Sunday. We left the house at 11:45am and I was back home at 5pm. It was a hot afternoon all round.

This week is more of the same on the work front, lots to do and I’m off on Friday afternoon for a trip to Sipsmith with Christelle, she’s going to stay at mine on Friday and then Mike is going to come and meet us for lunch on Saturday. On Sunday, I’m going to see Ma and somewhere in between that I need to do some work on the plot, make jam and get the flat tidy.

It’s going to be a busy week for me, hope you have a good one!