On my Back

Last Thursday, I was leaning into the passenger seat of my car to pick up the milk that I had bought for the office kitchen when, ouch - something went in my back. The previous week at Gym, I did a thing in my glute, rump, rear end. It was a bit niggly for a week and then this thing happened.
Well I spent two days in bed catching up on blogs and reading. Even watched a great movie on the laptop - an Italian thing called La Vita e' Bella, Life is Beautiful. If I said I didn't shed a tear at the end, I would be fibbing. It was a sad/happy ending in different ways but it might have been my sore back that made me get a bit misty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pysuUJhOnv4

The covers of two great movies we watched this weekend.

The following night Sue and I watched "Amelie" again, a rather quirky French movie starring Audrey Tautou. Her face is magical. Watch the trailer.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2330460441/

On the side bar of our blog are links to a couple of blokes from the US that settled in France. I caught up with their progression to retirement in the Loire, looking for and buying a property. Check out their blogs.
http://wcs4.blogspot.com/
http://ckenb.blogspot.com/

So this weekend's blog is like a rudderless boat, bouncing around with no direction really. As I walked out, no hobbled out the front door with Sue to go to my doctor's appointment, I couldn't help but to admire the bulb's in our garden sprouting green things out of the earth. I have no idea what colours will sprout from the green, only that spring is not far away.

Sue, I planted all these bulbs here (or was it you) years ago and I still don't know what flowers emerge.

The Camelia bush now has lotsa buds and the first two flowers have emerged.

The weeping cherry is starting to bud - Our pet  Beagle Mac is buried below it and it seems we might have Beagle shaped blossom this year. (did I really say that?)

Alyssum is sprouting out allover the the paving - lookin' good.

As I walked out the gate, I said to Sue that I really should mow the lawns this weekend - "Oh! you poor thing, you can't do that with your back", see there is a silver lining in every cloud.

Even Rosita our Moggy it starting to get spring fever.

5.30 pm in Melbourne and puffy clouds blend with a previously clear blue sky

"The Doc said that I had a stretched ligament or tore a muscle which really pleased me as I've had a prolapsed disc before and I didn't want that again. Us aging elite athletes need to be a bit more careful these days I'm told.

Having said that, I have a dear friend in Paris who just competed in the European Masters Track Championships and he just produced the best times of his career at the age of 65.

Michel Briat at 65+ is doing the best times of his cycling career - European Masters Track Championships 2010

Michel has been to OZ for the Worlds where I met him and we've caught up in Paris 2009 and 2010.