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Moving is easier for me now. In 1989 I lost two stones but that was largely by exercise and swimming, I can't do them now although I do cycle a bit. Walking is out.

Your mention of those shops made me look at your addy - I'd assumed you were in USA!

I'm in Pont Alarch.

Mary

I decided that getting up off the sofa seeing stars and getting to the bathroom upstairs ten minutes later as I was breathless was a good indicator that being 5'3" and 15 stone was not good! Swimming was a good way of exercising everything without putting a strain on the hurty bits, so most weeks I aim for 80-120 lengths of the pool, in two sessions. It's made walking a LOT easier! And the pain clinic stretching and strengthening exrcises make general moving easier, if no less painful.

Nah... I'm here at the arse-end of England, perched on top of the North Downs! :D Bit too far south and civilized for this wild and woolly Scot, but as son James is in a good grammar school, we ain't planning to move for a while.

I shall look that up... Close by Rotherham? Next time I'm in Selby, we'll try and meet up! James has a Godmother there.

No., 5'3" and 13 stones wasn't good either.

It would. But my trouble is that I was a strong swimmer and my pride won't let me just 'wallow' and swim slowly, so it hurts when I kick :-( And I can't swim a length underwater now either, I must improve my cardiovascular system.

Leeds. I'd also assumed you were SCA ...

That would be good :-)

Mary

I was a strong swimmer in my dim and distant youth... When I started again, I could manage 20 lengths in an hour and was totally knackered by that... Now I do 40 in the hour on a bad day (like last night!) and 60 on a good day. I couldn't GET under the water when I started up again! Now I have to keep moving to stay afloat! And last time I was in the diving end of Faversham outdoor pool in September, I got to the bottom! Yay! Kate SINKS! ;) Find a nice warm pool with a ladies hour somewhere, and come and join us lazy fat mermaids gently pootling up and down. No-one will care what shape or size you are, now how fast or slow you go, and you will soon build up your stamina and fitness, and cadiovascular strength.

No, I just come from a family of historians and engineers! Makes me want to get the history aspect of the sewing right to three decimal places! :P I don't confine myself to SCA levels of accuracy (not good in some areas!), nor to any one period. This was a fun project:

>> Next time I'm in Selby, we'll try and meet up! James has a Godmother >> there.>

You are lucky to have Leeds on your doorstep. Sid Trim and all sorts of interesting fabric emporia! :D Kent is a fabric desert!

Kate, I've mailed you, I hope you get it.

I apologise to anyone who has become impatient with this drift,

Mary

Are you kidding??? What a bit of serendipity that you and Kate should meet on an international Internet, and that it should lead to a RL meeting. That's very cool. Drift away!!!

Yes - finally got to the pooter! Been kinda busy: swimming, shopping, sewing, 2 hrs with customer, cooking & eating dinner!

I've now met several people in RL I first got to know through news groups, and all are lovely. Having a shared interest iis only the start! :D

Amazing how few of us are axe murderers, isn't it? ;-)