Jennifer was having a problem with her left foot this morning, it could not get out of bed I think, but she said it was something else. Anyway Noel left on the usual walk and it was a lovely day, the tide was out and there was plenty of room on the sand.
Prior to leaving for New Zealand Noel had been suffering with Arthritis in the left knee and was often finding it difficult to walk long distances and certainly not without a limp. In Auckland in early November he needed painkillers to enable him to get around. Our earlier blogs did comment on this and the efforts made by the physiotherapist and the instructions on what exercises to do. Well Noel has followed those instructions to the letter and walked and did all the things that he should do so much so that on his walk this morning an attempt to jog took place. Well he was able to achieve jogging for about 150 yards split in to two sections which is absolutely brilliant compared to the past few months of struggle.
Anyway, there was no pain apart from the usual dull ache and so hopefully it should stay good from now on providing he keeps up the exercises. This is important to us as our friends are planning to do the Thames Walk and we would like to join them but in Noels past condition it would not have been possible.
The rest of the day was quite simple really and we decided to cook up some of the fish previously caught and we decided to thaw one side of the very large snapper. It was far to big for both of us and there was enough meat for five or six people so we ate more than we should have and saved the rest to make a fish pie. The fish was excellent on rice and cooked by you know who.
Jennifer has a new book and so hardly talks anymore when not doing anything else so Noel has rediscovered his Ipod and the Various Podcasts recorded before we left home. It seems strange listening to Wogan whilst watching the swimmers in Taipa Bay.
Finally Noel spoke to a friend in Florida and discussed the ‘Bush’ Era. My friends view was that Bush tried very hard to do his best, but was a totally incapable human being. Says it all we think.
