Summertime!

[curiouswombat]

We have had a week of glorious weather - dry, calm, sunny, and warm for us although I know pondhopper would think it cold! (We have had daytime temperatures of 16-22C.)

I spent a lot of the week helping do 'teas' at church for all our motorcycling visitors, and there are one or two pictures

Here are a couple of pictures of the crowds taken between races -





Some people simply basked in the heat between races -



And some people didn't bother much with the bikes at all, but sat in the sun and read -



The church gardens looked nicely green - after such a late, bleak, winter -



And people are very respectful of the remembrance garden and don't mess it up, but are grateful for somewhere pleasant to rest for a while.

And finally - here is our new minister, ministering ...



I'm not sure what she had said to the two gentlemen - but it seems to have made them happy!



But I think I mixed one to many cakes by hand, and carried one too many heavy things, as my left shoulder and arm became very painful and more or less non-functional. This has happened before - this is the third time in maybe 18 years and it is not only painful, but incapacitating as I am left handed. The worst problems are that it makes typing difficult - so no writing, and that it makes it impossible for me to sleep well - if I lie on that side it hurts, if I lie on the other side then there doesn't seem to be anywhere to put it comfortably - and the only place I can sleep much is, weirdly, on the settee. And this annoys S2C as he feels that if I am on the settee he needs to be very quiet, lower the lights, etc. - even though I tell him that I am so tired that it honestly makes no difference.

Last night I actually slept in the single bed in D-d's old room - this seemed to help a bit. And I have applied heat pads, taken regular ibuprofen, rubbed voltarol emulgel into it, and now have my mum's TENS machine... and, as you can tell by the amount of typing here, it is recovering. If the last couple of times are anything to go by it could be a week or two for it to get close to normal, but at least it is usable now!

And, as I couldn't bake or help at church yesterday, D-d and I went out to lunch, over at Niarbyl, and ate seafood salads whilst gazing out to sea - but I fear there are no pictures!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, poor you! I know how frustrating it must be not to able to sort Haldir and Tindome out!

I had adhesive capsulitis in my left shoulder, not my dominant hand, and it took months of therapy before there were any results, mainly cause I didn't know what was wrong and took for ever to see the Dr!

Kind of gray at the moment, about 59' and cloudy.

Huggs,
Lynda

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm going to give it another couple of days - it was Wednesday when it really began to hurt, and if it isn't almost back to normal by then I will refer myself to physiotherapy.

59' is quite pleasant - although 65' is better...!