filtered

through the blind the sunlight's a lot more bearable.

Today started a bit overcast and I was hopeful we wouldn't see the sun but it was out by mid-day. Tried a bit of an excursion down the street, got as far as the park and was told to come back!

Just sitting is a struggle I find even if interrupted by my exercises which I have been doing conscientiously - even the buttock clenching. I want to get up and potter

"you will have to maintain some form of exercise for the rest of your life" it says in the NHS booklet I was given. The general tone is not at all encouraging. Lists of all the things that can go wrong and masses of do's and don'ts - if I hadn't known how much it can improve the quality of life if I'd read this booklet I'm not sure I'd have had it done!