A Saturday in August...

[byslantedlight]

Hello lj - it's been aaaages (again). Just when I thought marking was all over, extra was sprung on me (as I moaned previously) and when that was finally over I was off into surgery to have my knee peered at from the inside (and all it's metal taken out - well, except for one screw that apparently goes through a tendon which they didn't want to muck about with). And of course I should have taken more time off work for it, but you don't really want to do that when you're self-employed, so I've been trying to do that too... and I've been sleepier for far longer than I expected. Have only just stopped needing to nap several times a day, really...

They also said I'd be able to drive "maybe not the day after, but the day after that..." - hah! to that consultant, cos no... So sleepy and achey and trapped - and I still can't do more than hobble up and downstairs one step at a time... I can walk without crutches though, and - luckily - I can drive too. Well, I could the other day when I tried it - it's my clutch leg, and I can actually do that movement okay, I just can't lift it to get into the car, so I'm anticipating many worried looks. Because...

...today I'm going to see aeroplanes! *vbg* And a scramble to Spitfires, and all sorts of WWII things, at A Musical Salute the Few.

It's the first thing I've had in my diary for aaaaages, and guess what?

It's scheduled to rain. Pretty much as soon as the gates open, through most of the event. The picnic event. The outdoors, picnic event, at which there are supposed to be planes flying. The kind that don't like to fly in the wet.

Waaaaah!

Stoopid rain. Stoopid leg. Stoopid... Well. On the other hand. Planes! And of course, the story's gonna be narrated by someone we quite like, as an actor... *g* And there will be good company, who I'm picking up on the way, and treat-type snacks from M&S, and cool 1940s music, and... It's gonna be good. It is, rain be damned! (Well, as long as I can keep the dressing that goes over my staples (okay "clips", but they look like staples) dry). *g*

Right - off! I hope you've got cool things to do today, and that everything has been going well and all that? *waves* *g*

Comments

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

It will not rain! It *will* not rain! It will *not* rain!
Wishing you and everyone there an excellent time, no matter what!
Too bad they didn't schedule it, while Mr.Siskiou and I were in England.
Have you noticed that the weather is always nice, when I'm there? ;)

And your knee is already done! What kind of recovery time are you looking at?
I hope, it's quick, and the problems you had with it will be taken care of, now.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It rained... *g* But not until the end, and you've gotta laugh... *g* It is a shame you and Mr Siskiou missed it - I bet it wouldn't have rained...

And wouldn't you know it, I woke up to blue skies today. Argh!

My knee is done! The original consultant led me to believe a couple of days recovery time, though I didn't actually believe him then either... I'm hoping it won't be too much longer. It's 10 days later, and I can walk on it in general, though it's a bit tentative about getting going sometimes, and I can bend it to 90 degrees. Can't quite manage to get it up a stair though - gargh... I shall try and be a bit more intensive about doing my exercises perhaps, hope that something suddenly kicks in... I hope everything'll get better too - I'm a bit worried it might be worse, but surely that's just cos it's still healing... eep!

You must be well and truly back home now (I'm still looking forward to posts and pictures, by the way... *g*) Hope everything's blue-skyed for you over there! (Hey - maybe the Weather decides that you get enough rain whilst you're at home, so grants you good holiday weather to make up for it!)

[murphybabe]

I'm hoping so much that it stays dry for you! It's wet and cold and miserable up here, so here's hoping that we have all the awful weather and that it's fair for you. I mean, it's bound to be good, but it would be even nicer if the weather co-operated. Tell us all about it tomorrow!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It didn't stay dry at all, but hey-ho! It wasn't quite wet and miserable - it was wet and gusty, which is weather I normally like when I'm not sitting around in it, trying to picnic and peer over people's umbrellas to see a stage... I'll definitely post properly later today - must see if any of the proper pictures came out! *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Ooh musical salute sounds grand! Hopefully the rain will bugger off and you can enjoy it properly.

Knee doesn't sound so great, though. Why on earth do doctors tell you that recovery will be so quick, when it never is?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There was no buggering off of the rain - but hey-ho! Of course it's gorgeously sunny here this morning... *headdesk*

I honestly had so many different versions of how long it would take my knee to recover that I had no idea what to believe. I didn't really think it would be as quick as the original consultant suggested (though I was hopeful) but it would have been nice if it was properly better now, 10 days later... Actually I think it felt better this morning for getting more exercise yesterday, so I must try to do more exercises when I can. That's the trouble with a desk job, though...

Love your icon, btw!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Icon is brilliant, isn't it? I can't claim the making of it, but it's free to use with credit to pearle9240. Were you a Firefly fan?

I hope you had a good day regardless of the rain, it really sounded like a great event. Of course Martin Shaw being there wouldn't have hurt at all :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm sooo on catch-up - I have a feeling people will receive replies from me to things they wrote years ago, and wonder what the hell's going on...

I'm so in the mood for that icon - though I shan't pinch it from you, just admire it when I see it! I'm guessing it's a quote from Firefly, cos otherwise you're just being really random... *g* I've tried Firefly/Serendipity a couple of times, but not managed to get into them yet, to be honest. My head just didn't quite go the space = wild west way that seemed to jump at me. But I know everyone else loves it, and I love Whedon in general, so I'm convinced that one day I'll sit down with it and it'll click properly... In fact maybe I should give it another go now-ish, since I seem to be in an SF mood right now... I've just got to remember whether I had the dvd myself, and it's in my storage somewhere, or whether I borrowed it, or... I know I've got Serenity, but that's in Alaska, so that's no good... *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

The quote (as you'd realise by now if you found the dvd) is from the theme song. I guess the show isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I liked it.

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Oh-oh, you lucky thing, to get to go to that! The two wartime aviation documentaries that MS did are some of my favorite video in the world!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I do feel lucky to have gone, despite the rain! Planes, WWII history and MS are three of my favourite things - how fab to have them all combined! I've seen MS' Dambuster's commentary, but not his Malta one - that's been rather elusive! Nice to have things to look forward to, though!

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

OH, he did one on Malta?? Haven't heard of that one, the other one of his that I have is the one on the Jericho raid. If you locate the Malta thing let me know, it definitely is nice to have things to look forward to! :-)