And now… I have ankles to match Laura’s! With Lumpy in this heat, my body has ballooned!! I can’t really grip my hands and my ankles has swollen to the size of a tree trunk! I can’t really fit in any of my shoes and just about fit into my Birkenstock… which I wear daily even though it’s against office rules. Well… the office rule is that you can’t wear anything that flip and flop… my Birkenstock does not flip or flop so I’m OK.

So the past few months I’ve been doing absolutely nothing apart from trying to mend my hand, breath properly and keep cool. The only thing I like to do at the moment when I get home is either stand in front of the fan in the living room… or in front of the airconditioning unit in the bedroom.

Lucky me, Jules has been really patient with me. I’m not sure how many husbands would put up with such a lazy wife! Jules is a very active person and at the moment… activeness is just not in my dictionary! Poor guy. I promise I would change… soon. Hey! at least in my inactiveness I’ve picked up the brush and started painting again… even if it’s just in my little moleskin sketchbook.

Anyway… thanks to Jules foot rub wonders, my feet looked almost normal this morning! I had less problems fitting into my Birkenstock… and hopefully it will last for a while the weather is set to cool down over the weekend. One can only hope…

MALAYSIA : Husbands who call their wives ugly could find themselves behind bars. A women’s rights group wants the parliment to outlaw ‘emotional violence’ against women and punish offenders with fines and prison terms.

I’m lucky on 2 counts.

1) I live in England.
2) My wife is beautiful.