Tuesday

I didn't go to the AARP meeting last Saturday so rang my friend Phyllis for a chat and a catch up.  I was very distressed to learn that her grand daughter recently died from a botched surgical procedure, she was 37.   Obviously a loss like that is devastating for all the family,  and it has been hard on her 12 year old great grand daughter to lose her mother.  Phyllis seems to be coming through it though with all her Cockney grit and courage.   I know I've said this before, but I can never get over the fact that she sounds as if she left the East End this morning, and she's been here more than 50 years.

 

I called at the Senior Centre as I'd had an appeal from them for paper goods, and bingo prizes.   They have had their funding seriously cut, staff hours have been cut, and they are struggling to maintain their services, like providing a breakfast.   I think the breakfast is supposed to be for seniors, but they get a lot of elderly homeless.

 

I went water walking this afternoon at the YMCA, usually known in these days as "The Y".  

In the morning the pool is full of fat, old people - like myself - having aquatic exercise classes, but that's not for me, I'd rather do my own thing, so I go in the early afternoon before the kiddos come out of school, and I have the place to myself, and I water walk, then jump in the hot tub, or Jacuzzi which isn't in the picture.

The walkway starts at the right of that sticking out thing, goes down to the bottom, then back up under the arches - when the children are there, the archways are squirting jets of water.   It is a lovely facility.  I know I have shown pictures of it before, but I've had one or two new followers since then.

The current in the walkway never looks very strong, but putting one foot in front of the other, pushing against it, is actually quite hard work.