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Overheard as I wheeled past
Jun. 28th, 2015 03:05 am'Daddy, why is that man..."
First time for me, I was past too quickly to hear the reply, but I hope it was disability positive.
Ordered the special for lunch at my normal Saturday place, crab and chervil risotto, annoyingly it took them an hour to come back and tell me the crab was off (literally, not just off the menu) and did I want it with prawn instead (which was actually really nice). Somewhat worryingly I had to parse what I was being told by inference. I heard the start of the sentence, I heard the end of the sentence, the words in the middle of the sentence went into my head, but I just couldn't understand them. Second time that's happened this week :(
Also seen in the restaurant, a family clearly headed down to the marina afterwards, with a toddler, and the cutest patterned lifejacket sitting on her pushchair :)
A friend I haven't seen in a while saw me through the window and came in to chat. He's just back from walking 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela - only took him six weeks... don't really see me bothering! He's a bellringer, so was fascinated by the huge swinging censer in the cathedral, which apparently takes 8 men to get it up to speed, I hadn't appreciated it swings low enough over the congregants they're advised not to stand up!
And then back to the car, with my left arm not entirely happy at the pushing - that's the side where I had/have the cervical disc protusion and using the chair is showing up that it's clearly not as strong as my right arm, which annoyingly means there are days where I'm having to lift all 15+kg of the monster into the boot one handed... Still, it's another issue to hit Wheelchair Services with.
First time for me, I was past too quickly to hear the reply, but I hope it was disability positive.
Ordered the special for lunch at my normal Saturday place, crab and chervil risotto, annoyingly it took them an hour to come back and tell me the crab was off (literally, not just off the menu) and did I want it with prawn instead (which was actually really nice). Somewhat worryingly I had to parse what I was being told by inference. I heard the start of the sentence, I heard the end of the sentence, the words in the middle of the sentence went into my head, but I just couldn't understand them. Second time that's happened this week :(
Also seen in the restaurant, a family clearly headed down to the marina afterwards, with a toddler, and the cutest patterned lifejacket sitting on her pushchair :)
A friend I haven't seen in a while saw me through the window and came in to chat. He's just back from walking 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela - only took him six weeks... don't really see me bothering! He's a bellringer, so was fascinated by the huge swinging censer in the cathedral, which apparently takes 8 men to get it up to speed, I hadn't appreciated it swings low enough over the congregants they're advised not to stand up!
And then back to the car, with my left arm not entirely happy at the pushing - that's the side where I had/have the cervical disc protusion and using the chair is showing up that it's clearly not as strong as my right arm, which annoyingly means there are days where I'm having to lift all 15+kg of the monster into the boot one handed... Still, it's another issue to hit Wheelchair Services with.
