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At last I have found out how to fit blogging into my busy timetable! I am currently photo-enlarging the next reading book for my partially-sighted student (all 50 pages). This involves holding the lid of my copier/printer down on each page individually so that the copy doesn’t blur. It is a really tedious task! But… if I can read and write blogs at the same time it relieves the boredom. The only trouble is that I can only get about three words typed per page. So unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) you aren’t going to get my entire life story since I last blogged.
OK – eight more pages to go and the that’s your lot. Actually I’m aiming for the worst blog of the year award, so do let me know if I get your vote!

Right, all 50 pages done so that’s all folks. I only hope that I’ve managed to get all the double sided ( picture) pages the right way up!

Edited to add – 2 upside down pictures (and it’s all your fault d’you hear, all your fault!!)

I think I have invented a new sport.

I mean, how else can I explain it? These extreme sports are on the risky and physically dangerous side aren’t they? So then of course it makes perfect sense, when people ask me how on earth I’ve managed to get such a grazed and bruised face, to say, “Oh I went to a Bible study.”

The truth of the matter is that I tripped hurrying up my friends’ driveway, went flying at speed, put out my hands and knees to break my fall, but neglected to tell my head that this meant it could cease all further forward momentum. Consequently it wacked itself very hard against the tarmac. So now I have a bruise and graze on my forehead, bruising and swelling over the bridge of my nose and in the corners of my eyes where my glasses impacted with the tarmac (and my face) and another bigger graze on my chin. I have also taken a nice chunk out of one knee but of course that’s rather less dramatically visible!

Fortunately it is all cuts and bruises and no broken bones. Also fortunately I chose the right Bible study group at which to injure myself. After all it’s not often that you have a GP, a surgeon and a nurse on tap to help you out! They managed to patch me up quite efficiently between them (although the nurse, whose house it was, had no plasters and they had to be fetched from the surgeon’s car!). Strangely I turned down the offer of having all my wounds stitched though (!) and was very glad that I hadn’t broken my nose as the description of how it needed to be set before the swelling started didn’t seem that attractive really!

So I am, really, fine. Its funny though how a fall like that can really shake you up. I felt most peculiar yesterday and have decided to take it easy this morning and not go to church. I will go this evening when I’m singing in a choir for the Carol Service. I think I’ve got something a bit similar to mild whiplash as my neck and shoulder are extremely achy!

That means today will be a strange mixture of having a lie in (check) completing a sudoku (check) updating my blog ( check) catching up on washing and housework (um er…) wrapping and finishing making Christmas presents ( even more um er…). Perhaps I’d better go and get on with it all! Though maybe I’d better make myself another nice cup of tea first. After all it is supposed to be good for shock!

Well it’s a long time since I’ve cried so much in one weekend. The funeral did go well and it was good to chat with distant relatives I don’t see very often, but overall I just feel very sad and keep wanting to cry! I’d forgotten really how close I was to my Granny when I was very little, but now I keep remembering. I feel very tired aswell as very tearful and have had 2 rather disturbed nights with not enough sleep. I’m not really feeling like getting back in the swing of teaching tomorrow, though it’s possible that being with the children will cheer me up somewhat. I am feeling pretty low though. Thank you for your recent prayers – any more that you can spare would be appreciated!

Today has been a funny old day. I’m still feelingrather strange following my Granny’s death. I can’t exactly describe it but it’s a kind of “out of sorts”-ness. I had some tutoring cancelled which gave me some extra time and I used this ti take a nap to make up for the fact I didn’t get to bed ver yearly last night because I was playing Scramble for ages to unwind from the phone discussions (multiple – going on till 11.pm) I had with my Mum and Sister regarding the funeral programme.

I am now wasting time on the computer ratherthan having some proper tea and getting to bed by 11pm.

So… I guess I’d better go and eat!