Stuck

Posted on February 18, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged anxious, Car, car door, car seat, car window, central locking, Escape, gear stick, handbrake, locked in, panic, Stuck2 Comments

Came home from choir, went to get a takeaway and my electric window wouldn’t work. So had to open the door to collect the food. Then drove home, but when I tried to open my door it wouldn’t open. I tried hitting it and the lock stuck. By then I was panicking. I started honking the horn and flashing the car lights but no one was around. My phone was on the back seat and I couldn’t reach it. I tried to squeeze my foot up and over the central gear lever and brake, to get into the passenger seat, but couldn’t move my leg so I managed to pull the lever under the seat and tip the seat back to give me more space. I shuffled across hoping I wouldn’t knock the car out of gear or loosen the handbrake. I finally shimmied across. Luckily the passenger door opened. I WAS FREE! I’m shaking and need a decent garage to tow it away to fix it. Meanwhile I daren’t drive it because I don’t know if I’ll get stuck again. 😢

Getting outside

Posted on September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged anxious, Art, Chairs, Choir, Escape, Life, Outside, Planning, Table, Urban sketching4 Comments

Out painting with a friend

It’s been a month since I went out painting on a windy day, came back and caught my leg in a car door. On Saturday there is an urban sketching meet and I might go. What concerns me is that I will need a table or at least a chair. But on the same day there is a choir performance I’d like to attend. It will be possibly a safer bet as its downstairs and there will be chairs and no steps to negotiate….. It feels scary and good to contemplate getting out and about again. It’s good that two activities I love, art and singing, are both happening on the same day, but I am anxious!

Oh to be out and about x

Posted on August 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Escape, Getting out, housebound, Imagination, nurse, Places to visit, Seaside, Stuck, Walk2 Comments

Let me step out with confidence, stay upright, measure my steps. Just hoping I can do this again soon. It doesn’t matter where I go as long as its somewhere out of these four walls. I refuse to become housebound. I’m too young for this!

Talking to the nurse this afternoon, I explained how I’d originally hurt my leg, the car door had been caught by the wind and had swung into my leg. She said it happens more often than you think.

Places I want to visit? The seaside, relatives, local visitor centres, anything interesting.

Wrapped up…

Posted on April 21, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Escape, freedom, Knots, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, String, Tied, Time, tracks4 Comments

I’m wrapped up in thought

Tied in knots

Fearful and hopeful

Maybe happy?

Trails of thoughts

Run along tracks

I need to slip off

Onto free land

Find my way out

Beyond the gravity

Of memory

Break those bonds

Clear my mind

Float into space….

Went for a walk

Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Escape, Exercise, Legs, local area, Relaxation, starting out, Streets, Time, Tired, Walk, Walking3 Comments

We went for a short walk today, just round the local streets, back past an avenue of trees. It was only about a mile but I came back aching, cold and a bit breathless so it was far enough. After months of illnesses and problems I was pleased to drag my hubby out into the cold air. No rain today, no chance of slipping, just the chance to stretch my legs and think I can start again. I hope we can extend our steps a little bit each day. I didn’t measure them because I forgot to take my phone. Now I’m just trying to relax the aches out of my leg and back. But it’s good to feel able to exercise again.

Going out

Posted on January 18, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Escape, Getting out, Icy, Life, Out, Snow, Supermarket, trolley, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

I just got out of the house, only to go across the road to the supermarket, but it was definitely ‘out’. I leaned heavily on the shopping trolley to support myself, the cold air had got to my lungs and I felt short of breath again, but at least I didn’t cough. I was out yesterday, but only to walk from the car to the pharmacy and back again, so this was actually more of a test. The snow had all melted except in patches where it had been sheltered by the shadow of some bushes. In those places where the sun hadn’t penetrated there was crispy icy snow, glassy from compression by feet. I avoided those areas because I didn’t want to slip. Now I’m home and keeping warm. I’m wearing a fleece and my dressing gown over my clothes to keep warm!

Humid day

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Building work, Escape, gentle exercise, Humid, Lake, Nature, Sitting, slow walk, Trees, TrenthamLeave a comment

Humid but no rain sadly. The air is sticky with moisture. The storms we have been promised haven’t materialised. We got out and walked round Trentham lake because our neighbours are doing building work and digging up the land next to our garden. This was despite my back hurting as I got in the car. But I think the walk has helped. We managed to get round slowly and the breeze off the lake has helped. It’s still humid but I do feel better.

Floating?

Posted on February 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Escape, Getting out, Landscape, Layout app, Life, Mirrored, Photo, ReflectedLeave a comment

Two views of a hill in Rode Hall. One turned upside down to make it look like a reflection in a lake. The white in the grass on the photo is a carpet of tiny snowdrops. I got such a lot out of going out, although I was surrounded by a lot of people which made me quite nervous. I’m glad we went. It was a spur of the moment thing after seeing a video about it on Facebook.

I need a walk

Posted on October 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cabin fever, calf, Energy, Escape, Exercise, muscle mass, Pulled muscle?, Tired, Waking3 Comments

It’s over a month since I walked any distance, and only recently that I started driving any distance again.

It was because of a calf injury that happened while I was on a walk. The pain is only just resolving and I can bear weight on my leg again.

Now I think I’m getting cabin fever. I want to get out and start to walk again, as you get older you can quickly lose muscle mass.. And bones can get weaker too. So sometime soon I will be going out for a gentle wander, somewhere flat, but somewhere I can stretch my legs, see my small patch of the world again, and move on.

Cat escape

Posted on September 23, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Communication, Escape, Hubby, Tuxedo cat, vets, vets appointmentLeave a comment

Me to hubby ‘shut the kitchen door please’
Him, ‘why?’
Me, ‘the cat will get out.’

He doesn’t shut it
Cat gets out
Hubby has to search for cat in neighbouring gardens.
Hubby gets scratched by brambles and cat.

Me ‘grrrrr!’

Why don’t people listen. It’s obvious what’s going to happen. It’s worrying because the cat is due at the vets this afternoon, will it get out again!?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Escape