Too hip for my own good

So I've had an ongoing project for the past couple of weeks of unexpectedly good weather to get the borders in my back garden sorted. Thursday morning my garden-waste wheelie-bin (full to the brim) was emptied, so I could get on with things. I'm currently working my way along the back fence, which has been taken over by an invasive vine-y thing, which is fairly easy to pull out by the handful. Or would be if it wasn't riven through with blackberry canes with thorns that wouldn't look out of place on a rose bush.

So Thursday I decided I'd concentrate on the blackberry canes - spot one, trace it back to where it comes out of the ground, slice it off and tug it free.  Needless to say this involved a lot of bobbing up and down, and I kept thinking I should stop, "after I've done a little more". Eventually I'd pretty much filled the bin again, a lot of these canes were about 12 feet long, though it'll doubtless compress to half the size. And I came inside to find that rather than the hour I thought it had been I'd been doing that for two hours.

Thursday evening I was okay. Friday morning I wasn't, and my hips were being quite emphatic that they were not happy. It was in fact 3PM before I was able to stand up straight. Walking was less than optimal. Saturday was better, and I mostly feel okay today, though I have a very vague memory of waking up at 6AM, absolutely screaming because of shooting pain in my hip, and then going straight back to sleep again

Tomorrow I think I may try and see if I can make it slowly around the estate, just to get my hips moving, but I'm definitely not trying to root out the blackberry canes the same way again.

(And on top of everything I've never seen an actual blackberry on the damned things).

Boosted

My mother had her Covid booster jab yesterday, so that's an unexpectedly quick bit of a relief.

OTOH she had her flu jab at the same time, one in each arm, so 1) you can't tell which one knocked her for six for 24 hours, and 2) it meant two aching shoulders, not just one.

So maybe doing both at the same time is sub-optimal?