28 September, 2007

A sad sight


This is my new PC, which I was crowing about so much, boxed up and waiting to go back to the supplier after a motherboard failure. Have to say that the supplier's response has been very good, and they had the grace to sound embarrassed, and were suitably apologetic.

22 September, 2007

Home at last


Having a celebratory glass of champagne very shortly after having arrived home for good

My street for seven weeks


This is the corridor as seen from my bedroom door. Very bare and very pink. It looked a lot smaller than I had thought it was, the first time I finally walked down it on my own two feet. Well, one of the feet was my own ... A lot of the nurses were more petite than I had thought as well :-)

Yet another view of the Astley Ainslie hospital


From the front door looking towards the physiotherapy dept. It really is picturesque you know. Where the carpark is now used to be a roundabout covered in flowers, according to one of the nurses, who'd been working there since 1959. I was two then!

21 September, 2007

Equipment corner


Swiss balls, weights, etc, aplenty

Down the gym



The gym


I spent most of my time doing physiotherapy here in the gym. Became my second home ... almost

Dining room again


Shot taken from the corner shown in the previous post

Dining room


Including the book and video library. The door goes out onto the veranda where Simon, Debbie and Denise were seen sunning themselves in an earlier post.

Typical menu


Food is ordered two or 3 days in advance. It's usually hard to remember what was ordered so dinner's often a surprise