What a bloody awful night’s sleep we both had. We both were really tired and headed for bed after Big Brother and thought we would be in slumberland in no time. I was fidgeting (as Karen calls it) for an hour or so, and was restless, but tired. Karen was just lying there awake.

After about 90 minutes, I got up to cut my toe nails, and Karen got up for a drink water, and then when we went back to bed, the same thing carried on for another hour or so.

With full sleep, Karen isn’t a morning person, so a tired Karen would give Satan a run for his money. And as expected. I couldn’t do right for doing wrong this morning. I said Black, Karen said White. Whichever part of her I wanted to dry after the shower was the wrong part, and I should have done the other part first. But when I mentioned this, she laughed and it seemed to all go fine from thereon in.

Hydro today and a very good one at that. She has been working at lifting weights with her feet and doing big strides in the pool. When Karen walks at the moment normally, she takes very small steps. The hydro physio suggested she try bigger steps when walking normally – she has been doing just that on and off since hydro and it’s very impressive to see.

It’s like the old Karen walking again, albeit with a slight hip drop every time her right foot touches the floor. It looks very promising for the future. Watch this space.

Tonight is Chicken Pie and Chips, fish fingers and chips for kp and we are watching a film recommended by Adele – Man on Fire, supposed to be good.

Tomorrow, Glenn is coming up to check out our bathroom plans and then Ig and Og aka Margaret and Kathleen are coming up for a visit.