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KajiKita

redofromstart said:

The foot workout for your hip sounds interesting, please do share.  

My feet are GLOWING!! 😂😂😂
Do you want me to share now or wait a bit until I see some effects from it (on my hip I mean)?

KK

redofromstart

Now please, mine are sore which doesn't help the insomnia so it is worth a try.

Bananabreadyum

KajiKita said:

redofromstart said:

The foot workout for your hip sounds interesting, please do share.  

My feet are GLOWING!! 😂😂😂
Do you want me to share now or wait a bit until I see some effects from it (on my hip I mean)?

KK

Sounds fascinating! 

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

Now please, mine are sore which doesn't help the insomnia so it is worth a try.

Fair enough. I am finding my feet are feeling looser as I walk around today so there may be something in it. Oh and same here on the lack of sleep … <sigh>

https://newmindstart.com/walking-therapy-reverse-aging-heal-your-body

It’s a one off fee. They then try and sell you every other course but I just ignore that 😊

 A lot of it’s familiar from physio exercises I have heard of but not really done before. Chloe has lost one of her toy balls! 😉😂 It also seems to me like I could do quite a lot of this every evening, sat on the sofa, iyswim. Oh and there is NO WAY my calves are strong enough to stand up on my toes from my heels being in the floor and toes on a yoga block! 😳😂 Maybe later … <waves airy hand>

KK

redofromstart

Thank you, i will have a look later. 

I have had physio for my ankles before and a lot of that was seemingly impossible at the start but got easier quite quickly. 

KajiKita

Today hasn’t gone perfectly to plan but it’s gone pretty well 😊

- Mr KK’s washing done, line dried, folded and back in his room.
- Moved the pots off the deck and gave them a good water (I have been neglecting them a bit this week). - Retrieved a fallen over begonia in too small a pot and rigged up a means of supporting it from the railing behind it. 
- Cut back the Ladies Mantle - there was loads of it! 😳
- Made a slow cooker meal with chickpeas - it came out well but I think I’d cook it less / more slowly next time. There should be at least one portion for the freezer plus spare feta to go on top.

- Caught up on all my financial updates - nothing of any significance to report, which is both good and unexciting 😉

- Unpacked all the wool etc I bought for the needle felting. Did a little more on the project I brought home from the course. Realised, after reading the instructions, that the tree frog kit I also ordered is wildly ambitious for me at this time 😳 and whilst tidying up my crafting cupboard found a little Christmas tree needle felting kit which looks a lot simpler to start on to create a 3D object! 😂😉
- Did some more crochet blanket. I think I have gone wrong in the pattern somewhere. I’m just debating with myself whether to frog it back to the error (if I can spot it that is …). 
- Finished a lovely book ❤️



Hit 8.5K steps, which is okay. It will easily be 9 by bedtime. 

KK

debtfreewannabe321

You always sound like you achieve so much KK. I'm well jell as my DD likes to say 😂. 
I am going to have a look at those exercises too as my hip, my knee and my ankles kept me awake for most of last night after only one days manual labour with the DIY. I feel like I'm falling apart today. 

KajiKita

debtfreewannabe321 said:

You always sound like you achieve so much KK. I'm well jell as my DD likes to say 😂. 
I am going to have a look at those exercises too as my hip, my knee and my ankles kept me awake for most of last night after only one days manual labour with the DIY. I feel like I'm falling apart today. 

Hahaha … I think it’s more the way I frame it! Remember how physically hard some of the stuff you are doing atm is - much more physically demanding than a bit of cooking or deadheading!

KK

KajiKita

Mr KK is home and I am relieved, as there was a fatal incident related to the show he was at last night, that made its way onto national news headlines on classic FM that I heard as I went to Morrie’s to pick up M@lteser’s for him at lunchtime today … ! 😳

KK

KajiKita

I’ve done a job in the garden. The sit spot border has been looking dreary and mis for some time now … <sigh> 

Yesterday I cut down and removed the dead poppies (gave them a good shake about the place), the half dead and yellowing tops of the mint (it’s sprouting afresh from low down) and the dried, dead looking hollyhock stems. 

Today I got in there and DUG out the annoying weeds that create round heads of seed burrs (can’t remember their name but they are a ubiquitous weed here and I get them mixed up with the genus, which is very annoying …). Unfortunately some of the primulas got dug up as well, so I potted those up and put them in a relatively cool space by the potting shed and the water butt. All the other little propagation projects therefore got a drink as well 😊 (I seem to have quite a few well rooted, baby, hardy, scented jasmine plants to play with … 🤔🤩). 

Having made space, I then toddled off to the local, excellent plant centre and *only* bought plants for the spaces I made (look at me, being all mature, sensible and restrained! 😂😉) - a soft pink astrantia and a glorious, almost radiant soft purple salvia. I tucked the salvia in against the low retraining wall there, as they seem to come through the winter okay, when I plant them in what I would think of as dry spots. The bed doesn’t look amazing but it looks better and not quite so down, iyswim. The plants came out of my pocket money so it would have been an NSD …

but …

… Mr KK is still very down about losing his ‘special spatula’ that he uses when going away to vehicle shows with a cut out moustachioed smiley face - think frozen potato face type image (I know, I know … 😂) so I have ordered one from eeetsy for him, with his name inscribed on it this time(!) as a surprise. Not expensive, but not an NSD 🤷‍♀️😉 (and yes, I’m a soft touch! 🙄😉😂)

KK