Well spring is definitely in the air...
Primroses and mini daffs are out already... the larger daffodils are not far off once again showing their faces...
I saw the return of the Blue Tit pair... checking out their nest box yesterday...
Mrs Blackbird is busy nest building... gathering moss, grass and last years stems...
I watched the Mrs, just now, pulling up dead grass and putting some into one of my birdbaths... I can only assume to soften them so they'll bend easier... clever girl...
Although not tame, the Mrs was born in my garden so will just get on with things if I am outside... or as things are at the moment standing at an open window...
For the past week I have been totally bed/house bound again due to my back.... it is a tricky and a very long winded process to reshape... stabilise... then strengthen and maintain my spine... Two years to date!! and we are still reshaping...
We did another major adjustment over a week ago and although I'm having daily treatments here the body is still at the nerve trapping and spasming stage which is very painful, extremely limiting and rather DULL.
Not really able to do much even sitting, standing or lying down is limited so my days and nights have just been a constant flow of changing... wander a little... sit in one chair where I've been knitting a row or two... wander sit in another chair to write this... wander a little and then to bed... it can take up to 20 minutes just to get to that lie down position... two possible positions in bed I lie surrounded by pillows and cushions listening to a spoken book... and then repeat the whole process...
Thank goodness for the person who first thought of the spoken word via the library service... In fact the whole Library service is fantastic and I can't bare to think quite how poor my quality of life would have been over the last 10 years without my local library!
But I have regained nearly one and a half inches of my original height in the last two years and have been saved from being in a wheelchair with a neck brace!! so although this is very challenging I still feel truly blessed... just rather shattered currently!
I hope wandering outside will be added to the flow soon...
