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2 in a row!
2/2/2026 6:40:58 AM


Wow! How amazing to have had so many views of my blog after such a long abstinence. I'm so grateful to you all.
Meanwhile, I am pleased to report steady recovery. I have even ventured into the gym - ostensibly to walk on the treadmill (the weather here has been far to cold /wet/windy/generally horrible for outdoor walking of any distance) but there are always distractions like people to chat to, people coming and going outside. But yesterday, I was walking and suddenly thought to myself, I'm ready to run so I jogged very slowly but did 4k (I was overtaken by several snails and a three toed sloth) but I did it and I don't know which emotion was most overpowering -relief or sheer joy. There were times when I was at my most ill when I could not imagine every running again. I remember being taken for a chest xray and the lovely lady doing it said 'take a deep breath in for me' and I did - or at least I thought I had - but nothing happened as I simply couldn't. Weird and definitely scary.
Tennis looms, but as I said last time, not just yet. I need to be fitter. On everyone's lips of course is the subject of who will be in which team. Luckily I have missed the backstabbing to a large degree. But I'd like to play this summer in the mixed but maybe not the ladies' doubles as last summer there was the most almighty fallout - just be grateful I wasn't blogging then otherwise you'd have heard all about it. You've had a narrow escape.
But as I sit here, looking out at the dark clouds and the stark branches on the trees, sunny tennis seems a million miles away.
It's just good to feel so much like my usual self.




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