Over the last couple of weeks I have – rather under protest – morphed into a couch potato, albeit a reluctant one. In my real life I am probably about the least couch potatoey person you could imagine. My bottom barely ever touches a seat or stays there for long. I am a flibertigibbet of […]

Yesterday was a big black funk day. Boy was I out of sorts. I didn’t blog because, well frankly, you wouldn’t have wanted to read what I would have written. I fell hook line and sinker into the feeling sorry for myself hole. My MRI results weren’t great, the report from the hospital was full […]

No, I’m not wearing PJs, I’m making them! I haven’t done much dressmaking for a while and the cut out pieces of these pyjamas have been sitting next to me looking doleful (them not me!) for a couple of months. I can finally bend my leg enough to sit at the sewing machine for short […]

There’s been a little knitting going on here this week. Not as much as I would have thought considering the amount of time I have to sit with my leg up, but I supposed that’s always the case when you don’t feel great. Even managing the little things necessary to keep the show on the […]

Lack of mobility has shrunk my universe. Normally I run up and down stairs all day, rush hither and thither doing stuff and seldom sit down in one place for very long unless I’m working. Even when I’m sewing I’m still up and down and buzzing about. Practical necessity has curtailed all that flibbertigibbettyness. Now […]