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Pretty flowers!
Jul. 2nd, 2022 08:21 amWhen the husband and I were out on our walk last Saturday, we realised that one of the front wheels on his chair was completely bent out of shape. What we think has happened is that the wheel got a bit loose and started catching on small bumps in the pavement. Each bump twisted the fork a little, each twist meant it caught on the bumps even more, which meant it twisted even more... and so on... So, we've invested some money in a new chair, which we really should have done last time. With the first chair, we got a cheap one because we really weren't sure how much use it was going to get, other than getting him down to the homecoming in 2019. We didn't have that excuse with the second one, though, because by then we knew it would be USED! Anyway, third time lucky. The new chair cost more than the other two put together (still not hugely expensive, though - it's possible to spend thousands on wheelchairs), and goes like a dream - it just glided over all the bumps when we gave it a test run the other day. But we are going to build a 'wheelchair maintenance' session into our weekly routine!
Yesterday, my mum and stepdad treated us to some plants for our anniversary. We finally have flowers for our rockery! I've gone with a rainbow theme. It starts with green, though, using the ivy that is growing between the rocks in the little wall that encloses the bed. Then blue, indigo (dark leaves rather than flower colour), violet (think that's a gentian), red (no flowers yet but the variety is called Red Fox), orange, yellow (again, leaves rather than flowers). No idea what all the plants are called, except that the yellow is 'Lemon Fizz' :D And we already have a couple of plants at that end with yellow flowers, so technically perhaps we didn't NEED a yellow... But the garden is dominated by pink and white, so yellow breaks it up a bit. And it's called Yellow Fizz! We also got a miniature rose (called Cutie Pie), which will go at the back of the bed with the little conifer, and something with tiny white flowers because all the colours make up white light - and it is cute.
The garden centre is now also selling water plants, which they weren't last time I was there. We had a little look at them but didn't buy - I need time to visualise before I take the plunge. But I think a forget-me-not is in our pond's future (#itsapondnotapuddle) at the very least.
I finished The Umbrella Academy. It ended in a way that it could actually be the end - or they could pick up on any or all of the potential threads.
I started God's Favourite Idiot a couple of weeks ago but got distracted by the Umbrellas. It's a VERY different pace :D And has shorter episodes, so it's possible to get through it quite quickly. I'd say I was intrigued by it rather than hooked at this point.
And I've started on the marathon that is ST:TNG! Just watched the episode where The Traveller turns up for the first time - I'd never really made the connection with him and Wesley before. I wonder what else I'll 'discover'?
And I'm on to my third Moomin book (The Exploits of Moominpappa), which I haven't read before.
And that's all for this week. Bye DW!
Yesterday, my mum and stepdad treated us to some plants for our anniversary. We finally have flowers for our rockery! I've gone with a rainbow theme. It starts with green, though, using the ivy that is growing between the rocks in the little wall that encloses the bed. Then blue, indigo (dark leaves rather than flower colour), violet (think that's a gentian), red (no flowers yet but the variety is called Red Fox), orange, yellow (again, leaves rather than flowers). No idea what all the plants are called, except that the yellow is 'Lemon Fizz' :D And we already have a couple of plants at that end with yellow flowers, so technically perhaps we didn't NEED a yellow... But the garden is dominated by pink and white, so yellow breaks it up a bit. And it's called Yellow Fizz! We also got a miniature rose (called Cutie Pie), which will go at the back of the bed with the little conifer, and something with tiny white flowers because all the colours make up white light - and it is cute.
The garden centre is now also selling water plants, which they weren't last time I was there. We had a little look at them but didn't buy - I need time to visualise before I take the plunge. But I think a forget-me-not is in our pond's future (#itsapondnotapuddle) at the very least.
I finished The Umbrella Academy. It ended in a way that it could actually be the end - or they could pick up on any or all of the potential threads.
I started God's Favourite Idiot a couple of weeks ago but got distracted by the Umbrellas. It's a VERY different pace :D And has shorter episodes, so it's possible to get through it quite quickly. I'd say I was intrigued by it rather than hooked at this point.
And I've started on the marathon that is ST:TNG! Just watched the episode where The Traveller turns up for the first time - I'd never really made the connection with him and Wesley before. I wonder what else I'll 'discover'?
And I'm on to my third Moomin book (The Exploits of Moominpappa), which I haven't read before.
And that's all for this week. Bye DW!
