I like your niece @KT53. Have you worked it out yet?
How's OH doing @Busy-Lizzie? Less pain and more mobility I hope.
RTBC - it stopped raining long enough for me to do the weekly shop in peace this am and is raining again now. Blowing a hoolie too but that's OK as we're all tucked up indoors except OH who's out playing a golf match.
@Obelixx It's not going to be quick. There is a pack of question cards with it. Some are logic puzzles, others general knowledge questions. Once you have that answer you then have to use a character or digit from that in a grid, then potentially do maths on that, just to get the first entry for the first number of the code to open the cage. I will certainly have earned the drink. I told my niece that she is now off my Christmas card list.
@Obelixx OH is gradually getting more mobile, thank you. It was all more painful than he thought it would be. He had the op 2 weeks ago tomorrow and is more mobile than before it now. I put it on Forkers but I don't think you read it now. Did you see the PM I sent you in December? I hope your knee is OK.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hi @Busy-Lizzie. Good. Yes I saw your PM but by the time I was fit to reply you were back in Norfolk where I know you don't see PMs so well on your device.
My new knee is doing very well thanks and the other is now booked for July 3rd.
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@Obelixx OH is gradually getting more mobile, thank you. It was all more painful than he thought it would be. He had the op 2 weeks ago tomorrow and is more mobile than before it now. I put it on Forkers but I don't think you read it now. Did you see the PM I sent you in December? I hope your knee is OK.
@Busy-Lizzie did your OH have hip or knee replacement? There are so many of us and our OH's falling apart that I can't remember
I was at physio on Wednesday and there was a guy in who recently had a knee done. He was worried that he could hardly bend the knee. The truth came out when he said he'd been for a mile walk the previous day and was now in the bad books of the physioterrorist. She said it's more important to keep up the physio exercises at home than to go walking. He was told not to walk more than 1/2 mile a day at present.
I'm now 4 weeks on from hip replacement and only using one stick, and with minimal limp which really only appears after I've been exercising. Physio continues to emphasise just how important it is not to dump the sticks too early. She says doing so won't do long term damage but will slow down recovery of the soft tissue. I'm just waiting to be able to put my sock on myself and tie the laces on that shoe. Getting close, but not quite there yet.
@KT53, OH had a hip replacement. He had used 1 stick for so long and his joint was so worn that one leg was shorter than the other. He is walking much straighter now with the 2 sticks. He first went to the surgery with hip pain 4 years ago but couldn't get to see a doctor or have an Xray for several months. His operation was postponed 6 or 7 times for various reasons. I hope you can tie your laces very soon.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@KT53 - get th enext hip done in spring or summer and wear sandals! My knee was replaced on July 4th so I was fit for dance class by th ened of September and fine for bending by the time I needed to wear my little lace-up boots.
2nd knee due on July 3rd.
I hope your OH is now on an even keel @Busy-Lizzie and will soon be able to join you for walks.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Obelixx the other hip is absolutely fine and nobody is attacking that any time soon. I am certainly walking much better already with absolutely minimal limp unless I overdo walking. The consultant said my left leg was about an inch shorter than the right before the op, and now exactly the correct length. I'm just impatient to get fully moving again, but a few more weeks working on it isn't going to kill me.
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@Obelixx It's not going to be quick. There is a pack of question cards with it. Some are logic puzzles, others general knowledge questions. Once you have that answer you then have to use a character or digit from that in a grid, then potentially do maths on that, just to get the first entry for the first number of the code to open the cage. I will certainly have earned the drink. I told my niece that she is now off my Christmas card list.
My new knee is doing very well thanks and the other is now booked for July 3rd.
2nd knee due on July 3rd.
I hope your OH is now on an even keel @Busy-Lizzie and will soon be able to join you for walks.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.