Showing posts with label nature study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature study. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 March 2018

Braving the elements



By the time I get around to posting this we *may* have snow thanks to a pressure system from Siberia, Russia according to forecasters so part of this week was taken up with taking precautions because I do take some tablets that I find help in managing my conditions so I needed to go into town to get them.

Although it is a bit controversial I do find Omega 3 typically found in fish oils helps in a couple of important ways with me the first being I find it helps my brain to be mentally sharper and less of a fuzzy haze than it is when I don't take them and the other being they do help control the side effects of my badly damaged tendons keeping inflammation lower without the issues I had with non-steroids anti inflammatories  like Voltarol which caused damage to my stomach lining.

So It kinda matters to get them in while I can.

As well, I am making progress in walking having managed Sunday morning to walk a good eighth of a mile more than could a few months back which is quite an improvement on how I have been a for good number of years and that despite a full cooked breakfast.

Weekend meals I think probably are bigger in terms of calories compared with those during the week so I may at some point need to look at how to size them down a fraction as I'm convinced  I honestly don't need the cooked breakfast and full evening meal on Sundays.

I stood still and  saw a Blue Tit land on  a branch very close to me which was really nice to see while out in brilliant orange glow of the Winter Sun even if it was just 1 degree C and so I was very well wrapped up with gloves and scarf on.

Tuesday brought snow to this part of the Midlands so wrapped up well I did walk a bit cos a part of what I'm trying to do is to unlearn some of the 'bad' lessons from the past one of which is because I did hurt myself during the Winter snow season of allowing a fear of what happened to paralyze me from going out and to allow it to justify inactivity even I need to be active because it makes me feel alive and healthy.

Being outside really helps me.

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

My Summer Visitor



For the last few days it's been sunny and very warm - temperatures in the region of 24 degrees Celsius - so apart from making the most of the weather by being out of doors, I've had to have the windows open.

I was greeted tonight by a large spider - the span of a small hand - climbing up the net curtains. I carefully scooped him up in a glass, applied some paper to the top of the glass and released him back to the great outdoors.

It felt nice to help him back on his way.

The picture is of an arachnid spider.