It’s a stormy day and I’m doing (physio) Piotr’s massage lying on the bed. The clouds were racing by… but I do that thing that happens when you’re sitting in a stationary train but the one right next to yours moves off – and you think your train is the one that’s moving…i.e…me, and spaceship earth, have gone racing off, leaving the clouds behind. Which reminds me of Star Trek (one of my favourite TV series)…. and pretending a cinema screen is the bridge of the Enterprise… and the cinema audience is the crew…a specially selected ‘Wrath of Khan’ type crew of supreme human specimens getting ready for take off…. usually the lights dim and the film starts before I get too carried away….
I’m looking at the reflection of my knees while in the shower. The reflection is in Jay’s specially installed extending mirror which he uses while shaving in the bath. My right knee is higher than my left knee… and I think I’ve discovered a fundamental problem – I have one leg longer than the other!… Wrong!…. I have got used to standing like the leaning tower of Pisa – leaning so far to the right it looks like one knee is higher…Piotr is seeking to remedy this by giving me a ‘ball-friend’…as he calls it – it’s one of those huge core-stability balls… I have to press it up against a wall with my left hip and do heel raises at the same time (whilst holding on to a counter or bannister)… if the ball falls, I’m putting too much weight on my right leg. The exercises are getting to me now…. I’m just hoping I can bull-doze my way through this period and the exercises…but it is hard to stay focused.
After my last entry about plastics I got some feedback which shows that people are worried about contaminated food and pollution. When I walked into Sainsbury’s today I saw properly for the first time the sheer ubiquitousness of the stuff – unlike even a few years ago, very few items are sold loose… I imagined I would have to go to Lewisham market for unpackaged fruit and veg – or buy more from Riverford (the organic delivery service…www.riverford.co.uk )…. I then envisage every single piece of plastic in my bin breaking down in a landfill…and polluting watercourses. I don’t want to put ANY plastic into landfill!! But…. I cannot get away from the fact that we are living longer and longer…so we must be doing something right…the trick now is to live healthier and healthier…. which brings me back to those darned exercises….and this stunning 90-year-old lindy-hopper – Watch 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves | Rumble videos online free – Yahoo Screen UK. If I get there, I really really really really want to be dancing at 90…
jx
I’m looking at the reflection of my knees while in the shower. The reflection is in Jay’s specially installed extending mirror which he uses while shaving in the bath. My right knee is higher than my left knee… and I think I’ve discovered a fundamental problem – I have one leg longer than the other!… Wrong!…. I have got used to standing like the leaning tower of Pisa – leaning so far to the right it looks like one knee is higher…Piotr is seeking to remedy this by giving me a ‘ball-friend’…as he calls it – it’s one of those huge core-stability balls… I have to press it up against a wall with my left hip and do heel raises at the same time (whilst holding on to a counter or bannister)… if the ball falls, I’m putting too much weight on my right leg. The exercises are getting to me now…. I’m just hoping I can bull-doze my way through this period and the exercises…but it is hard to stay focused.
After my last entry about plastics I got some feedback which shows that people are worried about contaminated food and pollution. When I walked into Sainsbury’s today I saw properly for the first time the sheer ubiquitousness of the stuff – unlike even a few years ago, very few items are sold loose… I imagined I would have to go to Lewisham market for unpackaged fruit and veg – or buy more from Riverford (the organic delivery service…www.riverford.co.uk )…. I then envisage every single piece of plastic in my bin breaking down in a landfill…and polluting watercourses. I don’t want to put ANY plastic into landfill!! But…. I cannot get away from the fact that we are living longer and longer…so we must be doing something right…the trick now is to live healthier and healthier…. which brings me back to those darned exercises….and this stunning 90-year-old lindy-hopper – Watch 90-year-old shows off incredible dance moves | Rumble videos online free – Yahoo Screen UK. If I get there, I really really really really want to be dancing at 90…
jx
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