KNEE

 At least a week ago now, my right knee has been giving me a bit of grief.

There is a sharp pain in the lower/middle of me knee.  Mostly when I walk, but sometimes just when I straighten it out fully.

Sharp stabby pain.

Enough for me to go 'OUCH!'.  And be more careful and wary of it.

Most annoying.  It's stopped me walking any distance for now.

If it continues, I suppose I'll end up at the doctors, to be told it's just age/my weight bla bla bla.

I know there's no doubt nothing to be done about it unless it gets debilitating.  Such is our health system.

My friend couldn't walk AT ALL before she finally got a knee replacement!

NOT that I need a knee replacement, but yeah.  I know I'm just gunna have to grin and bear it, and hope it resolves itself. *sigh*

Right, bitchy bit over. 

ABOVE:  Got the power reading for the last week.  I get one every Friday thanks to our power company.

And look at that!  Big spike when I was cooking up all our dinners for the freezer.  But NOT as huge as I thought it would be.

In fact, it only cost about an extra $5-6 bucks to have the oven on literally all afternoon and half the evening too.

Today Stew, Keera and I are going for a little wander in the Hamilton Gardens, or down by the river .... then have a nice lunch somewhere.

Possibly at Chartwell Square.  

... Guess what?

We've been out all day... well until now (2 pm).

We took Keera to Hamilton Lake, there's two lovely playgrounds there.

ABOVE:  Keera had so much fun at the kids playground.  She was 'in charge' of the spinning contraption!  Constantly making sure kids got on and off safely.  I felt so proud of her.

ABOVE: The second playground on the other side of the lake was more for teenagers and adults.  It was one where you could do exercises, lift weights etc.  And a Parkour, I think that's how it's spelt?  You could leap and jump off walls etc.

ABOVE:  Keera gave a few stations a go.  I did not. 😂😅😆

ABOVE:  Don't be deceived by the beautiful BLUE water.  It wasn't.  It's disgustingly BROWN and heavily polluted... warning signs everywhere  saying KEEP OUT of the water.  Such a shame it's so hard to keep clean.

ABOVE:  I love this photo.  Keera loved swinging with me in the sunshine.  

After the parks, we met up with Steve, Bex and the boys for lunch at Chartwell Square.

10.11 pm:  Well we've had a lovely afternoon and evening.  Stew and I spent the afternoon relaxing, watching some tv, while Keera spent a play date with her cousins.

Then we prepared dinner, which was pre-cooked roast beef, cheese sauce, veges, potatoes and eggs.  

After dinner we had Bex and the kids here, lots of NOISE!  Now... all is quiet.  Our kid is asleep and we are again just chilling out till bedtime.