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Wednesday 6th May 2009

Just a quick one to let you know I haven't forgotten all about you, and to tell you that I've been on my rowing machine a fair bit these last few days. For a horrible couple of days I thought my right knee was going the way of the left one (see blogs passim, particularly around December '07) - I'd spent a day shifting furniture and was rewarded with ominous twinges - but, so far at least, it's been okay and as such i've felt able to step up the exercises.

I like my rower, it's not one of your Argos jobbies, it's a big f__k-off gym standard model I got on eBay a couple of years ago.  Had to get a real one as the "home" models tend to have a maximum weight tolerance of about 15 stone (quite what the point of that is I can't imagine).  I've never gotten as much use out of it as I'd like, and not just for reasons of laziness...  It was only a few months after I got it that the knee gave out, and by the time the knee was better we'd put out flat on the market; we were desperate to sell it in what was already a falling market, and since there's nothing makes a flat look smaller than it is than a bloody great rowing machine taking up half the living room, into storage it went.

There it remained until a couple of weeks ago, when I made a space for it beinhd the sofa in our new place.  The fact that it still took a while to get round to using the thing probably IS down to laziness, if I'm honest.

Maybe also a hint of trepidation; when you haven't exercised for a while it's a daunting prospect, whereas once you're back in the groove it's much easier.  And I'm pleased to say that the knee(s) held out, and somewhere in the back of my mind some dormant happy Viking race memories were awoken.

Anyway, must go; I'm being interviewed on BBC TV news AND the World Service this evening on the matter of John Cleese's diss on modern comedy writers.  

 

 

 

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