Thursday 14th May - more weather, less walking

Today was similar to yesterday, weather wise, cold, showers, raining, grey, sunny by turns.

So no walking. I'll walk an extra 'distance' by walking on the spot to make up. 

Vicky came and did some work in the garden; she comes fortnightly which is only just often enough at this time of year. The goose-grass is on a mission to take over, and I'm on a mission  (via Vicky) to prevent it. It's a hopeless task to root it out, so I work on a policy of 'discouragement', where everything shoot gets pulled out preferably to ground level before it can drop its bobbly little seeds everywhere. This seems to work; over the years it is much reduced. She managed to pick two hours between rain showers, packing up just as the first drops fell.

Sencoesue said in the comments that she uses a stand for her tablet - of course! BB doesn't use the one I gave him, so I retrieved it and set it up;

I've been using the stand off and on since yesterday with caution, and so far I've had no ill effects with my neck. 

My neck isn't fully better, but it is steadily improving. I just have to be careful. And patient...

Here's the stand in use again;

This is our book club choice for this month. 

How could your name affect the trajectory of your life? The author has imagined three different ways the boy could grow, depending on whether he takes his horrible father's name, Gordon, or the the name his sister his suggests, Bear, or the name his mother chooses, Julian.

While I find the courage to dive in (Gordon sounds a nasty piece of work, will his son be like him?) I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings.

That's a blast from the past; it must be 30 or 40 years since I last read it, although I've listened to the dramatisation... on cassettes, so that wasn't much more recent either!