This must be an improvement, only 14 days since the last blog!! Recently I did some more clothes shopping (on line) basically for trousers because the ones I had were getting a bit tatty. In addition I decided to get some colour coordination into my very limited wardrobe. Getting trousers and other items intended for disabled people can be a bit difficult but sometime ago I found an excellent company who specialise in such things - Able2wear - based in Scotland. What a lot of people don't realise is that sitting down in a wheelchair trousers need to be higher at the back for comfort, furthermore users of a leg bag need more space in the trouser leg to accommodate this. With this company all those little considerations, and more, can be taken into account - and they produce clothes of all sorts, for men women and children, for all kinds of disability. Their website is www.able2wear.co.uk and it gives a good picture of their wide range of products.
My fitness improvement seems to be variable at the moment, one day up one day down, for example yesterday I was bright enough to go by wheelchair the 10 min ride to the supermarket to shop for frozen meals. Today I was certainly not fit enough to go to my Quaker Meeting this morning. There seems to be something about Sundays because most of my bad spells have been on a Sunday.
I have decided to go for the Japanese solar panels because the company that supplies them (and fits them) seems better organised; they even provided all the information, and quotation, on a USB stick shaped like a business card. The scaffolding (for access to the roof) should be installed tomorrow and the panels on Tuesday so hopefully my next blog will be able to report on the success or otherwise of the scheme. I don't know if I will be round long enough to see the advantage of the electricity savings over the cost of the installation but it is going to be an interesting exercise.
Thinking about some of my music I often wonder what Gilbert and Sullivan would have made of the RAF if it had been around in their time. After all they made fun of the legal system (Trial by Jury), the police and army (Pirates of Penzance), the Navy (HMS Pinafore) and the Japanese (The Mikado). Of course in music there are various types of humour, and not all artists are always funny, for example Noël Coward has got some very cleverly comic songs in among other stuff; Mrs Worthington and The Stately Homes of England being among them. On the other hand someone like Bob Newhart is almost always amusing. I think I have more than 15 different artists who have come up with amusing songs or monologues.
Mike
