Wet weekend

Some things to do

Take close-up photos. This is a fruit (?) nut (?) from one of the London Plane trees in Thatcham. They look like Christmas decorations on the tree :)
Sit in a traffic jam at the level crossing


Go to the Cornish Pasty shop for a coffee and admire the gleaming coffee machineSit in a traffic jam again
Rescue (but first photograph) a small upside down person with many helplessly waving legs
More coffee - fair trade Peruvian. (Cafe direct Machu Picchu)

As well as all this fun and excitement, I unwrapped and connected my new hard drive - more photo back up storage, cleaned lots of stuff, put all my clothes away and bought two extremely nice woollies from Oxfam. Pale blue fluffy with LONG sleeves and soft sage green with a floppy neck. Amazingly, I can play the fiddle with either of them (soft fluffy woollies have a way of being slithery to a fiddle) and so far I haven't dropped any blobs on either!
Also, my back has been bad. It's having a new thing of suddenly stabbing me in the back - Ah, well um stabbing me anyway about halfway down on the left hand side. And occasional pinpricks somewhere in between the shouldr blades. No obvious cause but it seems an hour on the computer, half an hour on the fiddle and an hour's reading are my current limits. These times decrease as the day goes on. I am cross. There's no need for this sort of thing. Surely?
The inconvenience is enormous and the pain is causing a certain amount of blue comment and undignified squawking.
And no, straightening the poor old slouchy thing doesn't help. Though I know quite well it's my lousy posture that has brought it on me. Bah Humbug!
Eventually I will identify the cause and find a way of avoiding it without stopping doing stuff. Over the years me and the battered back have worked out several such arrangements so that now I carry with me an assortment of rests and supports and such like wherever I go.
Eventually the back will find another cause to grumble and we'll have to start all over again.
Bah Humbug!
Squawk!
(Currently sitting bolt upright and preparing to take the dog out. The rain has stopped and it's a sunny/cloudy/sunny/cloudy day - gorgeous :)
May the sun shine on you wherever you are (even in Iowa :) and do look after your back ok?

Especially in Iowa. and London. And Westray and wherever you live, Dash and Sorrow and Norfolk (I bet Dave wasn't expecting that - not that he'd know) And Abingdon and Oxford and Lancaster (both of which last have special places in my heart as well as Reading -though I doubt my youngest ever reads this or indeed any blogs)
And here of course - just a couple of miles across the valley (((Thursday and JB)))
Not to mention Portsmouth, Wales and Ireland and very importantly Rochdale. And London - Oh I mentioned London already but this is a different bit, near the Grand Onion.
I'm just basically sending out wishes for light and goodness everywhere I can.
Which also includes such delightful and thoughtful people as Gordie and Craig but to be honest, the cooker is beeping and I'm aware that I can't actually remember everyone I want to before its two minute beep period runs out. If I missed you, put it down to age and a couple of glasses of wine Ok?