Lon I agree working through pain is a character builder not sure if a good one for me!!! Zip lines not for me I dont like heights and would struggle to hold something above my head :-D

We have been away for a week in the Lakes walking 6 to 8 miles every day bar one. The weather was kind to us and the autumn colours fabulous. It wasn't easy my Si joint and back were playing up, I think due to wearing a loaded rucksack. I didn't loosen up until I had walked at least 2,000 feet in height preferably starting going uphill walking on stony surfaces on the flat was not good. I had to explain to my son please don't try and have silly conversations on the way up I will be grumpy. Its all I can do to put one foot in front of the other. Once we have got to the top I wont be a troll any more and can have a conversation!!!

Yoga when I got back was dreadful especially as the exercises that week involved the knees. Swimming was slow.
This week I am much better swimming much improved and yoga passable.

We have a new kid on the block sadly we had to say goodbye to our gorgeous cat after only having him for 5 years and inoperable cancer. he left a big hole and we now have a 10 month old bundle of very active claws. My new exercise is bending, crawling finding the ball and playing fetch. We are all smitten.

Watch this, poetry in motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwZfhdkA3M Oh to be so supple and lithe we are working out how to DIY somethiing similar.

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NSD almost all the way
No dairy hard cheeses occasionally and homemade ghee
Still trying to work out what makes me tick and what makes me drop

'Chew your drinks and drink your foods'
'Let your knife & fork do the work of your teeth and let your teeth do the work of your stomach'
Mahatma Gandhi