Up The Farway Tree

Exercise....at last!

I moved out of my exercise contemplation stage yesterday, and finally attended my physio for an appointment. We did a few minutes on the bike and some upper body weights, before attempting to join part of the cardiac rehab class, who were doing their warm up. I did manage to do some of the warm up, with a rest every few minutes, but overall I think I did quite well.

The one thing I did learn from this session is that I am terribly uncoordinated, and even the physio had to agree with me. I think my dream of taking up either salsa or ballroom dancing classes shall remain just that. A dream. I think I have mentioned my inability to do leg squats before - I just can't do it. Instead I do this kind of pelvic thrust motion, which is not very lady like and sends both myself and the physio into fits of giggles. I must practice in front of a mirror before my next session. The other great source of hilarity was the woman who fell off the treadmill. I thought she had collapsed at first, as she just fell suddenly prostrate, onto the moving treadmill. She then just lay motionless as the treadmill continued to move and slowly transport her onto the floor. Where she then lay motionless again. Needless to say my physio ran over to help the poor woman, who had to be given a glass of water and a chair, before she could overcome the shock. It turns out the treadmill has been pre-set to a programme which moved through different speeds - so when it suddenly changed pace, the woman wasn't expecting it and lost her balance. I know it wasn't very amusing for her, but I did have a sneaky chuckle to myself. Terrible sense of humour I know, but if you had been there...

I am now finished my distance learning course and am pleased to say I have passed it. I am still working on the CF relationship project, which is keeping me fairly busy, but will need to think of some more projects to keep myself occupied. I was looking at the OU again, and there is a digital photography course in May, which looks quite interesting. Although Andrew did kindly point out that I would need to expand my subject matter beyond birds and Seb. I don't see why. And just to be obstinate, I will leave you with some photos of birds and Seb...

Sleeping Beauty

Robin (yes, we had snow!)

Lesser Redpoll (quite pleased about this one, as they don't commonly visit gardens)