Cannot wait till I see consultant tomorrow, when this cast will be angle-grinded off. I have no real idea what my leg is doing and no doubt the cast will be replaced with something. Does anyone else wake up with a song in their head in the mornings? Yesterday it was Take That’s ‘Have a little patience’…some bit of me knows I’m running out…
Didn’t think the escalators at M&S Eltham (of Stephen Lawrence and BNP fame) could be quite so exciting. If you’re on crutches you have to get on and off them with careful timing… actually, that’s what you do without crutches – but your brain and eyes are so marvellous, you don’t even realise it! As I sat in the cafe today, having a bit of 2-leg envy, Pat (76; unjustifiably thick curly grey hair) struck up a conversation with me… she’d killed off 2 husbands (OK, they just died) and had had the Duchess of Argyle and her dog as clients… she was a (lovely and very with it) ex-paralegal. So….. there are some lovely people in Eltham…
Don’t know what possessed me, but I decided to shoot off an email to Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum (where I am a volunteer) – I made a desperate plea for the pre-historic hand-axes…which might be… axed. You have to touch these things to appreciate the sheer ancientness of man’s ingenuity I said. The hand axes are effectively primitive knives; they were made by earlier species (not homo sapiens) – and they show something pretty unique to man… a brain that can imagine something, and then create it; a toolmaker with a need to manipulate his environment and not just be subject to it. I shiver every time I handle them.
Oooo… I crutched into Blackheath Hair Studio yesterday and asked Sarah for ‘the full Supremes’ … I don’t think she did too badly (see pic).
Jx
Ain't we got it made? 