My back has been giving me some gyp again, which is a bit disappointing. I'd begun to believe that the relief accidentally provided by the calcium channel blockers was going to be permanent.
Today my brain decided that we were going to clear up the dining room. I put on Now 1973 and got on with it, stopping to do stretches often as the pain bit. I carried on into the adjacent dining room. A simple tidy up became a bit of a marathon, as my brain decided that I was already in pain, so moving the sofa to clean under it and move it a bit wasn't going to make things any worse.
And then I had to have a more in depth clean and sort out. I labelled plugs. I sorted extension leads. I hand swept dark corners. And it went on, and on, and on. 4 hours, with a half hour stop after I'd put the furniture back so I could have breakfast.
I got Raymondo to vacuum the floor, and he did this with only a few stops for complaints.
And as I'd nearly finished, I decided to give the cat tree a brush down. It's been a loooong time since I last did it, probably before Christmas I think. I was using one of those old-fashioned sweep-in-one-direction hand devices (bloody marvellous), which needed shooshing and emptying a lot.
I was standing on steps to reach the top platforms of the tree, so I just dropped the hair on the floor each time I emptied the shoosher, which was every couple of minutes. I got Raymondo to come and sweep up.
The App said "Clean Raymondo's brushes". I flipped him over, and I could see why he was having trouble.
I cleaned him up and then just piled the hair next to him, and carried on piling up the hair as I finished the cat tree.
When I was done - and I had removed the piles of cat hair - I sent him to vacuum again, and I'm just about to mop the floor.
I need to go and sit on the power plate, and/or lie on the floor.
After I've washed it.
