Day One

Day One:

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. 

I am by nature an optimist. I’m also something of a hermit but the government guidelines to continue with exercising have made me think. 

Thinking IS an exerise isn't it?  I have very poor vision due to AMD. It’s meant I can no longer step out with jaunty confidence, as I have to watch where I’m putting my great clodhoppers lest I trip over a cracked path or uneven kerb.  I’ve fallen several times but was at least spared the public humiliation of crawling to something on which to haul myself aloft.

I was in the garden after a very wet spell and slid, none too gracefully in the mud. I had to crawl on hands and knees 6 metres across the lawn, laughing so hard I could hardly breathe, to a fence. All along this fence are Nahema roses intertwined and whilst beautiful, have sharp, hooky thorns - not the best purchase to get upright.

So nowdays, reduced to a cautious hobble and with this an arthritis, it’s many years since I enjoyed a good, brisk walk. I swim regularly though but as all the swimming pools are closed, I’ll be denied even this.

As I was ruminating on the advice to take exercise for physical and mental wellbeing, it occurred to me, eyeing a little stool in the corner of the room, that

if I lie on my tummy on that and flail my arms and legs, it will it be as good as swimming and with the added bonus that there's no danger of drowning.

I'll give it a go.