Rain keeps falling

When I had my hysterectomy, I'd just had a big birthday, left a job which was slowly killing me and in constant pain from the endometriosis inside 

I made a quick recovery... Walking 2 mile within two and a half weeks of surgery.  

Okay. So I misread the instructions.    After surgery I was sure they said. Pump the morphine every fifteen minutes.   What they said was 'the morphine will only pump.after 15 minutes to stop you overdosing only pump when you need it 

The leaflet said bed rest for 10 days then start walking by 100..metres every other day.  I thought it said 'walk 100 metres for 10 days and then increase by 100 metres every day.  You'd think when they saw me staggering up and down the corridor in the hospital for five days they would have wondered 

I'm the same with knitting patterns which is why my cardigans have the shaping in the wrong place and why arms point to the sky rather than down by the sides.  Babies are very uncomfortable in my cardis 


I digress.  

As I was recovering from one of my walks.  And generally being unable to stand from exhaustion, my neighbour came into our garden very quietly. (She does everything very quietly. Sneaks up on me a lot). She handed me a beautifully wrapped box and said something along the lines of how amazing I was to be doing so much so quickly after surgery and scooted off back thru the gate 

I opened the box and inside was After the Rain body wash and lotions and shampoo and hand cream and I burst into tears at the loveliness of it.

The smell still takes me to a happy place where my body had become my own again and I was stronger and better than I had been for an age.  

I lather it all over myself before bed. To chill me out 



Just heard on social that Liam Payne of One Direction died falling from a third floor balcony.   Poor boy. So young. I don't think it was deliberate third floor wouldn't always guarantee fatality