Another small thing but a huge leap for Disabled Don

It may seem insignificant and trivial but today's milestone was going out to eat a McDonald's! I can say that I accomplished this goal in my recovery this full honours and a small feather in my cap! We went out sometime after eleven thirty and drove to the drive through in Minster. Heather and I have a fear 😱 yes fear of drive throughs and we always park up and people watch! So we were tucked safely away in the corner close to both bins and exit and off she toddled in search of food!! I sat in the back wheelchair lashed down and two seatbelts on and Set about people watching! Now our car is really a converted van with rear access ramp to enable me to travel in my wheelchair ♿ the rear Windows are blacked out! Not Gangsta style but dark enough for me to go un-noticed. Perfect for looking out at the outside world. I have been perfecting people watching for over forty years and scanning with blacked out Windows is really as good as it gets! It all started on our first holiday away with friends when our kids were in prams! And as our holidays have progressed the art has been honed! You would be surprised the amount of tents caravans and motor homes I have been guided round by proud owners. 😄 Now I'm my dotage I am unable to be getting in and out of people's home from home so I spy on them eating their food in the car in McDonalds car park! You should see what some people eat and how many drive off discarding wrappers out of the window rather than walk ten feet to put their rubbish in the bin! I must say that today's people used the bin a lot as it was full to the brim. Several people pushed it down but on cheeky crow managed to grab a bag of rubbish fly up to about fifty feet and drop to get the contents scattered all over the road! It then proceeds to pick over the debris and eat the reward of his ingenuity! I have seen Gulls do similar with sea shells to get the contents of the clam or cockle but McDonald's bags that's a real skill! That's been my day. Two weeks after surgery I successfully completed a trip to McD and stayed awake until now. Time for shut eye me thinks and dreams about dare devil Crows risking life and wing to get a meal! Night night 🌙 I am extremely tired.😴

Lazy day listening to Music

After four visits from the District Nuses in three days I am up and about today. Well about as I can be in my electric wheelchair. My wife Heather did boiled eggs and soldiers for lunch. Do any of you go through the daily "what do you fancy for lunch today moment"? Well today I was ready, normally its a daily game of 'no we had that on Friday' or 'no that means  going to the shop' but today I was primed  locked and loaded, I saw a tweet about the colour of proper free range eggs. So for the first time in living memory we decided without debate!!!

As it turned out we had eggs and bread butter but some othe staples necessitated a trip out to the shops. Well I kicked back in my wheelchair and selected Apple Music stuck my new headphones on and am still here two hours later!!! I took them off while we ate our afore mentioned lunch and a couple of other times to answer Heather's questions but I have had an enjoyable time just chilling listening to sounds with the laptop on my lap on a lap tray (where else would a laptop go?) I am currently listening to Joni Mitchell I have had a great few hours headphones on, one eye on the garden bird visting the feeders JUST CHILLIN

How are your new year resolutions going?

Mine are great 👍 I never made any! Yep I know I need to loose weight, if I could I would but I never shamed myself into setting unobtainable goals! I ain't going Vegan Veggie or any of the stupid fad  names they label you with as soon as you deviate from 'the norm'  what is NORMAL try Google for that and it comes up with one hundred and seventy five million results?
Abnormal only got twenty three million which in itself tells a story!
I don't really know why I am writing this post ? It is exactly one AM as I type this line, I have been in bed all day recovering from an emergency catheter change this morning. For those that don't know me I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis and my body has given up working! I cannot stand or walk, I have to be hoisted in and out of bed and get about in an electric wheelchair ♿. I am currently recovering from having a Baclofen pump inserted inside my body to administer drugs direct into my spine! I was to say the least concerned about having this pump inserted under the skin on my stomach and then the catheter fitted round my body once again under the skin and into my spinal cord!
Thinking about it and the actual reality were miles apart and the fact my legs are now tremor free and almost pain free make any fear I had well worth it!
Back to today and the blocked catheter! I woke up feeling uncomfortable but nothing new there then but by nine o'clock I got my wife to call the district nurse! I have lots of debris in my urine and the catheter had become blocked! The nurse was great and got here ten minutes after the out of hours service called her! Unfortunately it had taken them an hour from our phone call to her actually getting told to come and visit me! By the time she arrived I was in lots of pain and discomfort. My MultipleSclerosis then kicks in to overdrive and really wiped me out for the rest of the day! So a day in bed sleeping may sound like bliss to you but MS hit my with a day of severe fatigue!
 I could go on moaning about my day but I know you don't want to hear my woes. I only came on the blog  because I noticed that I have not updated anything yet this year😱
Still that's this update over and done with as I now feel tired enough to try and sleep.😄 Good night world I am going to try and feel well enough to actually get out of bed tomorrow !

My New years resolution is RUBBISH

• Yep my footprint on our earth 🌎 is as light as i can make it! But my resolution for 2020 is rubbish! Yep especially rubbish of the plastic kind!. Let us all clear up our rubbish, take it home if there is no bin around, it's hardly rocket science! If we dispose of the rubbish we yes WE make the world 🌎 a better place. So take your rubbish home and if you see stuff laying in the street pick it up and bin that too😃 happy New Year 👍

Happy New Year everyone

Yep just about one hour left in this decade! What will the new decade bring? I have no idea but I will wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2020.😄👍

Rod Stewart & Ron Wood - Mandolin Wind

Old Post on Staycation

Here is a post I wrote for my old blog Promote Thanet I closed that blog down abut two years ago but today whilst deleteing stuff I stumbled upon this post I don't believe was ever posted. I am putting it up now because with so much going on politically at the moment if we all spent a few quid locally reather than on the continent or the Costas we might make a few people slightly more financially secure.

I love living here in Kent and call Margate my home and am so lucky to live in this wonderful corner of England. Kent is often described  as The Garden of England and I am not going to disagree. I grew up on a small mixed arable farm with sheep, pigs, chickens and cherries. You can't beat a good Kentish cherry straight from the tree, in my mind Kent strawberries come close but without the added bonus of spitting the pip (come on we all spit the pips) As I said I now live in sunny sandy Margate. Thanet has over twenty miles of beautiful sandy beaches and coves and at anytime of the year the beach is the place to be, in the summer building sandcastles and on a bracing winters day a walk with the collar turned up and hands deep in your pockets it is invigorating and makes you glad to be alive.
The reason for writing this post is to encourage more people to Thanet but my ulterior motive is to encourage people to spend time and money  on staycationing (IS THERE SUCH A WORD?) The word Staycation has crept into the English language and according to The Telegraph people abandoning holidays on the Costas has been a huge bonus to our home grown holiday industry. The article I read said millions were on staycation and adding Billions to the UK economy. Now with my old blog named  Promote Thanet I want people to visit Thanet but with all of the problems around the world with ISIS etc and now with Donald Trump in the USA and the Brexit here at home, people are thinking twice about spending time overseas.  Not wishing to alarm people but 30 Brits died in a shooting on a beach in Tunisia in 2015, ISIL were responsible for the deaths. Nowhere is safe from terrorism but British beaches are home and as the saying goes there is no place like home. Shops Hotels etc all benefit from tourism, be it a day trip to the coast or a weeks break anywhere in the UK the money spent makes a real difference to the locals. Buying British helps everyone, taxes paid  into the British exchequer enable schools and hospitals to exist and our welfare state to exist. So instead of flying off to somewhere exotic consider spending your holidays at home.