Tired

Posted on April 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches and pains, Age, Bacteria, Bug, Illness, Luck, Mask, Pandemic, Thinking, Tired, viruses, World4 Comments

Another day of a bug. I don’t think it’s covid, I think it’s some sort of cold. I ache and I’m tired, but I don’t have the covid symptoms thankfully. I usually go outside wearing a mask. But one day last week I forgot. But as I was not going in any shops I thought I’d be OK. But perhaps someone sneezed or coughed? And I try to stop breathing for a few seconds as I walk passed people….

I guess there will be a lot less bugs about as we sheild ourselves from the Pandemic. But it doesn’t mean there aren’t other illnesses out there. Waiting for some throat or nose to lodge in, or to be caught on your hand by touching a surface with bacteria or viruses that have landed on it.

Life… A convoluted mix of luck and confusion.

Snow and sun

Posted on April 6, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #100daydrawingchallenge, Cold, Ill, Shattered, shops, Showers, Snow, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

Blurry back yard, the plants have been watered and are starting to grow. But the snow showered us today. Cold winds blew, and the outdoor cat came in to get warm.

Health wise I went to the shop, but after walking just 2 km I was absolutely shattered. Still that’s 2km more than I’ve done for the last two days! I hope I’ll be able to do more tomorrow….

Not well

Posted on April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Aches, Cold, duvet day, Grey, Headache, Ill, no walk, Resting, Tired, tummy bug4 Comments

I feel unwell. Grey and cold, achey, tired. Under the weather.

I didn’t go for a walk yesterday or today. Unlike this photo the sun was shining in a bright blue sky, with fluffy white clouds scudding across it. Me? I keep falling asleep. I want to hibernate, like a little cold hedgehog. Tucking my head under the duvet and waiting for the headache and tummy upset to go away. Spikey and fed up, but not well enough to want to do anything about it.

😭

Normal service will resume as soon as possible….. Hopefully!

Hubby’s Motorbike Stolen

Posted on March 31, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Angry, Early morning, Hubby, Insurance, Life, Sad, stolen motorbike, theft, Time, Tired, waiting to hear4 Comments

Hubby’s Motor scooter was stolen early this morning. We went to bed late after watching a film. Then about five am someone started hammering on our front door. Hubby shouted he was calling the police, and the man outside said he was the police!

He said they had just seen it being ridden round Stoke and that it had been stolen. Hubby checked the gate and the padlock and hasp had been broken and the motorbike / scooter was gone.

They went off and we decided to drive round to see if we could find anything. What we did find was a large covered mobility scooter in the alleyway by our garden. It had been damaged where someone had broken through its faring to hot wire? The motor. I guess they must have done the same with ours and ridden off. On it. We reported it to the insurers, we will see what happens.

Hartshill Nature reserve

Posted on March 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Exercise, Hartshill, Life, nature reserve, Staffordshire, Steep, Stoke-on trent, sunny spring day, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

Although the nature reserve is on a steep slope, there is still a pool on it. The end with the bridge over it might be a dam. I don’t know the history of the place but there are steep steps down into it and in some areas what paths there are, are quite slippy.

I had to lean on my friends arm to get down one section, not socially distanced but I was wearing a mask.

Today was sunny with very warm temperatures, the warmest March day since 1968. Red admiral butterflies were flitting about in pairs and triplets. The bird song was loud and liquid. Buds were bursting and insects humming.

I did another five miles today, that seems to be my upper limit for walking at the moment. Tomorrows planned walk is about the same length!

Sleep

Posted on March 28, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daydrawingchallenge, Art, Asleep, Black and white, Black and white cat, Cat, Curled up, Drawing, Sketching, Tired, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

An old drawing done in 2019. When life was comfortable, the cats were snug. I hadn’t started doing my illustration course and I was drawing for pleasure.

I’d done another challenge, a hundred days drawing challenge, I think this was done on the third day because I’ve highlighted the date in red. I don’t know which of the cats this was. It isn’t our outside cat, because he was still living outside then (now all I have to do is whistle by the back door and he comes).

Anyway this just popped up in my memories, so I thought I would share it. A happy black and white cat, asleep, with no worries.

Kilometers

Posted on March 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Devon, Distance, Exeter, fifty six days, kilometers, Miles, Tired, Walking, weekly average2 Comments

How far I walked today. Its not a massive amount but it was up and down and up again. Lots of hills. I’ve been doing this walking challenge for 56 days now and my total mileage is around 181.5 since 1st February. That’s an average of 22.6 miles a week. My hubby has walked with me a few times and the rest mostly with my friend. She always walks further than me.

It’s interesting to me to work it out, but I might be boring you!

I did work out that if I walked another 12 miles I would have got Exeter in Devon!

I have short legs

Posted on March 27, 2021March 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Challenge, Exercise, Feet, Fitter, Friends, Helping, Legs, Miles, Steps, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

I just checked my step counter and it came up with this for March. But I do have short legs so it’s not as impressive as you might think. Plus this is steps not miles! Anyway I’ve surprised myself. I think I’ve done 55 days since starting the 100 day walking challenge with my friends. I think I’m slowly getting fitter. My average walk is around three miles. I’m tired and aching, but I will keep going barring injury or illness. Still over 250,000 steps is not bad going for someone who was basically sedentary before that. Yes I was doing a few walks a week , but I think doing this has helped enormously. X

Sleeping mask…

Posted on March 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Breathing, Breathing mask, Drawing, edge, Life, Sketching, Sleep aponea, TiredLeave a comment

On the corner of my bookcase in the bedroom sits my breathing mask for sleep aponea. Tried to draw it..#bandofsketchers prompt ‘edge,’

I have something called sleep aponea. When you sleep, your throat relaxes and can close up. I didn’t know, I just knew I was very tired, to the extent I started to fall asleep at work. I found out sleep aponea can cause weight gain, diabetes, heart problems and other issues. I didn’t even know I snored as my hubby is deaf.

Wearing a mask is not always comfortable. If it comes loose it feels like a tale force wind blowing in your face.

Camellia

Posted on March 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, camellia, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Hedge, Ideas, Tired, Today, WalkingLeave a comment

Walking today, did just shy of 3.5 miles. We saw this lovely Camellia in someone’s front garden. As the sun lowered the colours shone out. As we were walking we were discussing whether to add plants to our garden hedge that is getting rather thin and straggly. This is now a candidate, together with hawthorn, buckthorn and Holly. Maybe with a bit of beech hedging added… Its nice to contemplate the spring garden. Soon there will be frogspawn and cherry blossom (not together, obviously!)

Mallaband-Brown

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