Improvement

 Rain has stopped play in the garden today, and I found - when I drove out - that Openreach are two days late in shutting the lane between us and town, so I couldn't go and do the grocery shopping as planned.  I did the ironing instead, listening to the last part of Heartstone by C J Sansome.  I'd read the book when it was first published, but it was just as good 2nd time round.  As I am deep into The Pillars of the Earth right now, it's nice to have a story read to me.

My gorgeous girls.  I wish I could have gotten the one of Pippi fast asleep with her back legs stretched right out!  But in moving to get the camera, she of course woke up.  The photo of the two of them shows Pippi giving her sister's ear a good clean!!

I have made some progress in the garden.  I've trimmed one of the shrubs which I forgot to trim the dead flowers from last year, and belatedly, the Buddleias also.  Plus a little removal of grass and moss around about but the bank is ALL moss and rampant wild strawberries and fine grass which grows right up into things.  A challenge.  No photos of that but I can show you a bit of a before and after on the cobbles (believe me, a pathetic amount of after when I look at the rest of the yard.)  The stables and the old house had a cobbled frontage and the previous owners got their gardener to use chemicals on the cobbles to keep them clear of weeds and moss.  I don't use chemicals.  Hence I have to do it all by hand.  I need to crack on in the pre-pollen season to get on top of all the jobs that needs doing but this is the biggest.

This is the "done" bit - on hands and knees (and kneeling mat) with a screwdriver.

As you can see, it's a challenge and I have a lot more to do as the other side has to be done as well.  Think I need to call in the troops in the form of our offspring!

The other improvement is Keith.  Since he has been on the doubled-up dose of Levothyroxine he has been able to abandon first the walker/stroller and then his walking stick.  He has just been walking up and down the kitchen, turning better (needs to work on that) and he can't push himself too much yet, but goodness, considering 3 weeks ago I thought he would be bedbound by the weekend, this is amazing.  It is well known that long-term steroids damage the endrocrine system and he has been getting increasingly exhausted - beyond fatigued even, and fatigue is something experienced with both Hypothyroidism AND Parkinsonism.  So, I wonder what the Consultant will say on this when we see him later this month?  We see the Parkinsons' Nurse first though.

Now I'm off out for a walk as I think it's stopped raining.  Enjoy your day.