diffrentcolours | Gyms, Garden Centre and Hospital (Reply)

With my hernia surgery imminent, and 6-8 weeks of recovery afterwards, I managed to go to the gym three times this week - to the local gym for cardio on Wednesday evening, to yoga class on Friday evening, and weights class this morning, each with cosmolinguist.

Wednesday was pretty good fun. I watched The Repair Shop on the telly in the gym while working up a good sweat on the cross-trainer, messing around on some weights machines to take a break. I spent about an hour there which is a reasonable session.

Yoga was more of a mixed bag. I'm a little out of practice, and my feet were hurting, and I just couldn't get into a good headspace. I started freaking out about the surgery and the possibility I might be dead in 48 hours, and that really isn't conducive to maintaining a Warrior Pose. (It's very unlikely that this will happen, but I did spend some time that afternoon writing down PINs and passwords for V in case the worst happens...) I got back from yoga, and enjoyed the rest of the evening.

Weights this morning was good. I got to see friends, and went reasonably hard at some of the exercises because a general anaesthetic will probably be a good way of dealing with DOMS. Honestly the class flew by, and we had a really good chat with I&A afterwards.

This afternoon, me, E & V went to the garden centre in Cheadle for lunch and shopping. I'm not great at gardening and I made a few suggestions which turned out to be unhelpful, which was a bit of a downer. Still, I found a nice white clematis to climb up the plastic skeleton in the garden, and ham, egg and chips for lunch helped perk me up a bit. We ended up getting a buttload of plants to populate the garden - a mixture of flowers, herbs and ferns. And V & E swung by B&M on the way home to get some dirt and decorations to go with it, while I waited in the car.

After getting home, me and E took Teddy for a nice long walk, then I ordered fancy burgers for dinner - if I'm going nil-by-mouth I might as well have a big meal beforehand. Now it's time to pack, and get ready for a very early start - I'm due in hospital at 7:15am!