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Tuesday night - Pembury with pfy, hairyears, livredor, doseybat and pplfichi. Yay.

Yesterday morning with livredor, then lunch with her and daneres, then brainhacking, then home and ended up having abigailb and ali_anarres 'round for dinner. I made soup with baby corn in it and it was yum. Baby corn probably came from far-away places though; will have to see if I can get locally-grown stuff as it is TASTY.

The cat continues to be a delight. She's beautiful, and wonderfully affectionate. What more could one ask?

Today - osteopath. Must remember to ask about calf cramps, wrist weirdness. Probably not Aikido, much as I'd like to, because Aikido right after osteopath is bad. Might get out for a walk though. pfy says he found morels and I want to get out foraging again.

I have let the washing-up build up a bit too much today. I will do a load in between other things, doing it all at once will just hurt me. Once I get back to Isle of Cats I must resume investigation of dishwasher options.

I have been practising horn each day. I get about 10 or 15 minutes before it starts to hurt... both wrists, right elbow and shoulder, sometimes left shoulder as well. That's sitting down. Sometime soon, I'll need to take my horn with me to the osteopath - only, I can't carry it to do this. Bah. There should be a support tool on its way here, so at least I'll be able to play for longer. It's good to be playing again. High range and low range have suffered a bit but not as much as I thought they would. I need to get in touch with my horn teacher and arrange to have a lesson sometime soon-ish, help get me back on track, but until then it's exercises and Brahms. At this point I'm not even getting all the way through my warm-up, so... yeah. I hope the horn support helps. It should do, as it will take most of the weight of the horn.

Next weekend is looking VERY busy - B-Movie, Suzuki, various assorted birthday things, teaching re-starts, and so on. It's just as well this weekend is long. I shall try to mostly spend it relaxing; apologies if I seem a bit of a hermit. Then I need to start making an earnest search for part-time work again - I have many problems which could be solved or eased by throwing money at them, and not enough money to throw at them. I do wonder how I'll find the time though; by the time I've done physio and horn practise and general life maintenance my mornings are full, and various afternoons have appointments of one sort or another, and if I'm doing anything in the evening then in the afternoons I mostly need to rest. How did I ever find time and energy to attend classes and rehearsals? Oh, yeah, I didn't practise properly, and I felt awful much of the time. Duh. Well, I'm gradually fitting more stuff in and feeling less awful, and if I have a particularly bad day I just start again the next day. Knowing why the physical pain is there helps a hell of a lot, too.

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I've seen people in wheelchairs on buses, but only in suburban areas. I suspect central London is a bit of a nightmare in a wheelchair, also getting from Zone 4 to Zone 1 on a bus would take HOURS and why do it if you can get a lift to your local high street for most things you need? Is there much on Oxford Street that can't be ordered online?