Gyms, Garden Centre and Hospital

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:06:16 GMT

( Talk of health and exercise, mention of death )

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!

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Rolling Rolling Rolling, Butts Drive!

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:46:30 GMT

This weekend contained some exercise and some much-needed socialising. The trans gym class I've been tagging along to has been getting really popular in recent weeks, to the point that classes have been booked out. I was happy to go along when it was scraping by in terms of attendance, but I absolutely don't want to take a trans person's place there, so I've not been while it's been busy. This week however there were still 3 places left late on Friday evening, so I booked just before booking closed. It was good to see friends, and the trainer was happy to see me back.

On Sunday I had intended to go on a ride organised by a local. Their easiest "pink" rides are aimed at kids, only a few miles long. But their blue rides are usually far more than I can manage. This blue ride was a bit of a stretch at 14 miles, but I figured I could drop out early. And more importantly, some people I know from Discord were planning on going along. As it turns out I was feeling terrible on Sunday morning and didn't get out of bed in time, but neither did half the Discord people. So I missed out less than I thought.

Despite feeling terrible, I dragged myself into the car to drive across the Peak District to Matlock, to swim in an open-air pool with friends. cosmolinguist came with but didn't swim, so I had car company, and when we were finished we went back to one of said friends' house nearby for tea and nattering. The swimming and socialising actually made me feel a lot better, and we came home feeling like we'd actually done something with the weekend, which was lovely.

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