Good morning
Bloggets. Gosh it’s slippy outside. At 8 am this morning, I was out and almost
slipped. It’s so scary I just feel for those who have to catch a bus to work or
walk to work when it’s like this. How on earth do you do it if you can’t see? You
don’t know where you are putting your foot so it’s not as if you can avoid the
ice. My walk was short. To the post box and back. It was the post box nearby so
I was OK if I had to go to the one almost a mile away, it would have been bad.
I remember asking a Mobility instructor to show me the one close by and she
wouldn’t… I understand her reasons why, but she didn’t understand my reasons why.
She was an instructor from another area not my normal lovely
lady Jane, as Jane for sure would have understood, she was brought in from
another area… I think our Guide Dog branch had staff off either ill or holiday.
Anyway, the reasons why the instructor wouldn’t show me how to get to this box,
was because it’s so close to home. She wanted me to give my dog a long walk. And
to be honest, I do still even now I know how to get to the box here, thanks to
my Son showing me once… where as an instructor would show me until I am totally
confident. And if she’d shown me, I may not have had a split face last year. I bled
all the way home and before I got home, I was so dizzy with stress of finding
the box, I ended up getting lost, or disoriented. Long story why and it’s
boring but it’s one of those days I really didn’t like. One of those days that
makes me remember each time I leave the house, to be anxious.
The reason I wanted to learn the way to the post box is on
days like this when I need to post a letter and because though early it was
sunny and not really that cold. But still sadly it was very icy but I didn’t
realise this until it was too late because most places are fine, like my drive
and the path out of our street, I thought it was a fine day. For days when it’s raining hard or, so windy
it makes it really difficult to hear where I am. And, if that lady wanted to
post a letter, she would walk to the nearest one, wouldn’t she? In fact, she probably
would drive to it!
I fed my birds today though there are few. I feel so sad for
them as it’s been so cold for days now. but it’s due to get warmer. Still though
the poor birds. I have my bird table
obviously in the same place in my garden and I know exactly where it is and
when I think of the length of my garden it’s amazing how I just manage to find
it first time every time. I changed the water today as they need fresh water
not frozen as they like to keep their feathers fluffy to help with flying. I still
can’t imagine how those little creatures survive in the kinds of temperatures
we have been having of late.
It’s 10 am now my Son is still in bed though my decorator
has been here since 9 am. He was exactly on time. Right now, he is rubbing down
the gloss work. Gosh his arms will be killing him. I want to make him a cup of
tea but I don’t want to disturb him either. I shall give him another half of an
hour then offer a cupper.
The colour that is written on the paint tin for the walls is
called white almond. My Son said it’s far from white or even cream but much
darker than cream. I hope it will be when it’s on my walls as seriously, it’s
such a big job this. Five full days. And things everywhere even though it’s not
a room. I wrote of all the ornaments we had on the landing windowsill and the
slim drawers we had to move as well as the floor standing candlesticks and the small
children’s wooden and cane chair my Son has had since a tiny child. Then there
are the five pictures, clock and mirror that I had to move, well, find a safe
space for.
Our stairs have not been painted in almost six years and
there is so much gloss work. Nine doors and surroundings as well as the skirting
boards and loads of wood on the banister then the windowsill. That’s just gloss before the ceiling and
walls.
I hope it will be a nice colour I have picked for the walls.
To all you paint and other colour manufacturers who are reading my blog, haha,
as I’m sure there are at least seven of you out there, please can you consider
people who are blind when you pick your ridiculous names for your paint/sofa’s
and so on? In England the names on the paints now are stupid. Nothing close to
what colours they should be. Their more like lady’s exotic names or some futuristic
language that will be impossible to translate unless you understand Mumbo-jumbo.
Oh, my goodness… I thought it was my Son coming into my
living room and I have just said in an over enthusiastic voice.
“Hello Darling.””
It wasn’t my Son… hahahhahah. He replied, my painter that
is. Hello Darling, I went red and said oh, you are not the Darling I thought
you were and he laughed and replied.
“I am, a darling.”” Hahaha. Bless him.
My Son is off to work soon. My dog is in her bed. She was
such a good girl today. She walked with extra care to the post box and back. She
got me to the box putting her head near it to get her biscuit and then back
home. She wasn’t too happy about coming home as she would be out working all
day if she could… I was glad to get back as really, I am so scared of falling
these days. My knees are in agony after the last time I fell on the road about
two years ago. I was with my friend my Waggatail worked really well getting to
where we needed to be but on the way home because there was so much traffic and
she hates noise, she didn’t work well at all. I took my friends arm she saw a
gap in the traffic I continued walking forward as she didn’t let me know what
was on her mind to quickly take the opportunity to turn right in a hurry, and
go down the huge step. Well, that was it, my ankle bent and I went flying down
the step onto the road. Cars whizzing by me around me. My dog loose on the road
and my friend got flung across the road too by me as I fell. When I fall I fall?
Thank God, my dog came to me and I jumped up getting her to the kerb to safety.
Oh, I still have nightmares about that day and I bled all the way home. Thankfully
my friend was OK too no blood but I took half of the road inside my knee. I should
have gone to hospital as goodness knows what I did to my knees that day but
since then I have been in agony.
It was a shame as that day my friend was so kind she went
around the furniture shop with me and really helped me to pick some lovely
things like a desk and so on for our office. But a disastrous ending for sure.
OK, I shall go for
now and write to a couple of my Bloggets who have emailed me. But before I go,
take a moment to reflect on your week ahead. For me I must try to keep going on
the treadmill and not eat before bed. But try to eat as well as I can the rest
of the time. Try with a capital T and reflect on the fact I have achieved two
days of the mill and eaten proper food for more than two days, probably five
days now.
Some quotes from me
“We are all walking a bumpy path so watch out for others not
to trip up and hopefully they will watch out for you too, along the way. We
will all get there in the end especially if we help each other.”
© Fiona Cummings
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