A good thing....and then No thank you!

 Husband's first physio appointment (for his bad back) this morning was held in the sports centre of the local college, it was a community event - physios there along with representatives from lots of local organisations, such as AgeUK, SASP which is a collaboration between local GPs and sports facilities, various other activities and facilities.  The idea being that you are first assessed by a qualified physiotherapist and then offered targeted exercises and recommendations for other things like local gyms or swimming pools.  Then you go on to look around the other activities and facilities and choose if you'd like to take up any of them.  I suppose it's a good idea, getting everything together in one place and it was quite well organised....but being held in a big very echo-ey hall with high ceilings, and being quite crowded, it was ridiculously noisy.  With my impaired hearing, with so much background noise going on I could hardly hear a word any of the professionals were saying to us.  The very knowledgeable physio deduced, after thoroughly examining husband and testing his movements, that his lower back pain is muscular in origin, exacerbated by his age and general lack of exercise/movement (I could have told husband all of that!).  He's been given a couple of sheets of exercises targeted at his lower back pain, and they stressed he really needs to actually do the exercises and get moving in general if he wants to alleviate his back pain and early morning stiffness.  Again, things I've been telling him for ages....but of course he takes no notice of me!  So let's see if he actually does what someone else tells him!

Afterwards we went for lunch in Morrisons cafe - husband really likes it there (mainly because it's pretty cheap!) but it's not my favourite place to go.  Husband liked his meal - cod, chips and mushy peas, but I wasn't very impressed with mine - cheese & onion quiche, chips and beans.  The beans were ok, but the chips were undercooked and the quiche was overwhelmingly salty, I couldn't taste anything else in it.  Husband suggested that we go there for my birthday treat when his daughter and SiL are down visiting in a couple of weeks and have offered to take me out for a meal, their treat.  No thanks - hardly what I would call a treat!  It was busy, chaotic, untidy (discarded napkins and spills on the tables and floor) and very noisy, I thought it resembled a transport cafe.  Anyway, I've already chosen a place that does a lovely Sunday roast (we've eaten there before), which husband had obviously and unsurprisingly, forgotten about.  The good thing about the lunch out is that I don't have to cook anything for dinner tonight!  Husband says he'd like cheese on toast - fine by me.

I've now had three separate 'invitations' in less than a week to have lung cancer screening - do they know something I don't?!  As I only smoked 10 a day for about 5 years and gave up over 40 years ago, I don't really think I'm in much danger of getting lung cancer, but I'll have the test anyway, if only to get them off my back! 😂  The initial screening is a phone interview, you're only referred for scans if they think from the initial questions that you may be at risk.  So I'm sure it'll just be the phone thing.  It's good that they're being proactive and doing preventative stuff, I guess....obviously far better to catch things like cancer early.

Nothing on now for the rest of the week, so I might do some more sorting out - we didn't do our shoes when we did the recent clothes cull.  I also need to sort out some books for the charity shop.  I plan on making some soups using the homegrown veggies I froze a few weeks back, it's definitely soup weather now.