Easter Day

Today started like many others we have had recently with Angie up ( and struggling with her back) to feed the hounds. Unusually I decided to stay in bed for a while. Something I haven’t done in a long while.
Eventually I dragged myself into the shower to wash off several days grime and came down to have coffee. Once again I find myself on the couch in front of the Telly watching past episodes of cop programmes.

We are due to feed the five thousand with most of the children coming for lunch.

The Matt and Siobhan , Tim and Jeremy arrived along with Anna and Josh. We eventually sat down to lunch and ate heartily. Siobhan had made a nice desert.

We then sat and watched Pirates, the Disney movie and ate chocolate

More to follow

Day 7 of my broken Ankle

Day 7 started feeling a bit low about the whole thing of broken ankles. Angie is really suffering and very quiet. She took both Lomu and Berkley out (individually) but while she was out one of our neighbours from number 4 (Margaret Loveday) came over and very kindly offered to help walk the dogs. How kind is that. She later came over and gave Beattie a short walk. I’m hoping Angie will take a break and give her back a chance to recover.
The day moves on

Good Friday evening

I had hoped we would make it to the Good Friday celebration at our Vineyard this evening but due to my broken ankle and Angie’s bad back we can’t make it. I really really understand Angie not wanting to drive and know she is as disappointed as me but it doesn’t take away my disappointment. I had really been looking forward to it.

My first checkup

This morning I had my first check up after my fractured ankle. We arrived at 9 a.m. thinking we would be amongst the first there only to find we were along way from being the first.
After about 20 mins I was sent to have an xray. The radiologist was extremely brusk  (is that the word) . unsympathetic would not be an unreasonable description. Once the xray had been done I was sent back to the fracture clinic where in a very short time I was seen by the same registrar I had seen in A&E on Saturday. He was happy with the xray and said I could continue with the boot but should elevate my leg whenever possible. Angie then brought me home and cooked me “a full English” more or less with frothy coffee and then left me to my own devices as she dashed off to her vigil at Anna’s as she could give birth at any moment…..
The next 5 weeks is going to be very testing both physically and mentally.

I broke my Ankle 12th April 2014

My sisters 67th birthday was on Saturday 12th and I tried to contact her but as usual got no reply.

Angie and I had arranged to go for a walk with Matt and Tor in Thetford Forest. We took the dogs and it was pleasant with a go on a huge tube slide.

After the walk Tor and I went on a big swing and I had a bad break and broke my ankle. Problem was I didn’t realise it until later when Angie took me to the hospital.

Not a good end to the day.

Mothering Sunday

Last night the clocks went forward one hour giving us lighter evenings.
Today is mothering Sunday. Angie and I went to church and it was a good service with teaching from Louise. Louise has been teaching on why Jesus had to die over the last few weeks. It’s useful to listen to the podcast from the website (www.wsvc.org.uk )
As we left church we were given bunches of daffodils to give to someone. Angie didn’t want to do this and so I went to two of our neighbours and have them the flowers and an invite to our Easter events. Personally I doubt they will come but it would be great if they did.
After the service we rushed home as Angie’s children were coming to cook lunch.
Josh and Anna arrived first and Josh and I started work on changing the front disks and pads on Angie’s smart car. While we were doing that Matthew and Tim arrived and started preparing lunch of gammon steaks, corn on the cob, asparagus, curly chips and mange tout followed by frozen cheese cake.
While it was being prepared and after Josh and I had finished Angie’s car we sat and watched the Malaysian Grand Prix which Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes.
After lunch everybody went for a dog walk (except me).
When the Dog walk was done Matt and Tim left and Josh and Angie left a little later.
The day was coming to a close.