Freedom!

Monday 5:00 p.m.
                            I was visiting the geriatric and disabled on Thursday, Friday and Saturday over the last two weeks and I'm not doing that again. It's just too many disabled people. It's three days out of my week lost, and then there are the bits the flatheids take off you just as a matter of course, and the relatives to see, and  ... it's just too much. As far as I can work out, I don't have to see anyone till Thursday now and that's great. It almost feels as if I'm in charge of my life for once!
                           Today is really the start of the allotmenteering for this year. I visited the plot and took the last of the brussel sprouts and nearly the last of the leeks. This is almost the last plate of allotment soup - once you add the kail from the buddhist woman's plot - for this year. The allotment food has lasted three months longer than it usually does. I've still got onions and tatties.
                            I'm running so slowly these days that I'm going to start doing short runs. I did one today. Twenty minutes. Twenty minutes with a wee bit of pace. This will speed up the longer runs I'll do later on and give me some acceleration. Terrible not having any gears. It's when you run out of gears completely that the running will stop.
                             The meditations this morning were great. I went to bed sober last night. No smoking, no drinking. Long may it last!!