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The Countess is really feeling her age today at the penthouse. Join us for tea and chatting.
darlings i'm in such pain today the the gardeners rummaging around as well in the potting shed so apologies in france if you hear any um bangs and clatters he really is the most noisy gardener i've ever had anyway i'm in such pain i've had to come back to the full poster and the reason i'm in so much pain is partly because i've just done a 45 hour ballet class which i adore but normally the classes are 30 minutes and this sudden half as much again if you see what i mean has really pushed my elderly bones to the limit but i will admit to feeling rather pained should we say before the class and you know what it is i have been trying to see how long i can stand up whilst cycling all week and when i used to um plank i i would push myself so
much that eventually i couldn't move i was you know planking for six seven eight i mean i got up to ten minutes once and i literally couldn't move so i had to stop doing the planking but what is it about the aging brain that doesn't warn us that we can't do something until afterwards it doesn't make any sense at all does it it's backwards upside down logic because when we're children if i'd when i first started riding a bike if i thought to myself i'm going to try standing up and i i well i'd know i'd have that feeling inside that i'd be okay with it because i'd know that if i fell off the bike it probably wouldn't be as bad as if i fell off the bike now of
course and i suppose when you're young you do try new things but you know that you're going to get fitter and better and when you fail at something you understand why you failed but you know that you're going to improve so therefore it's worth trying again a bit later do you see what i mean when you get older darlings once you've failed that's it really that's pretty
much it isn't it unless you improve your sort of fitness but once the old arthritis kicks in you have no hope in hell and what i've you see that gardener banging doors now goodness me noisy noisy person anyway i'd there's as you come out of the penthouse there's a slight incline up towards the fountain in the communal gardens and then you turn right and or left rather and there's a gravel path and i've i used to only be able to get up the incline if i stood up on my bicycle but now i can i can get up the incline standing up do a left across the gravel through the royal naval archway hey presto i've doubled my time standing up i also have another area
where i have to weave between buses and i've started standing up for that too and i felt quite smug about it till about wednesday as i cycle every day and i thought well yes i'm i need to be getting a job doing this i'm so good i mean like deliveroo or something not that i would but you know you get that don't you get that ideas delusions of grandeur cycling grandeur because
when you see a courier in london or a delivery person they're nipping in and out of that traffic and you always think you're going to go under a bus any minute and so i had this sort of fantasy that i i was keeping up with them anyway by wednesday the lower back was starting to get a bit rickety and clicky and i thought what's going on here and i'd wash my hair i bent over the bath and used a shower attachment to wash my hair and because i was conditioning it i just stayed bent up you see so i washed uh well i dyed it actually so i was washing the dye off and then i didn't bother getting up at that point so i'm still bent over the bath you see really low so i'm not getting water all over the you know the paintwork and what have you and then i conditioned it so i was probably bent over like that for 10 minutes maybe johnny's i couldn't
get up i could not get up again and i thought oh my god i'm trapped i'm gonna have to crawl somewhere to make a call it was excruciating i mean obviously...
darlings i'm in such pain today the the gardeners rummaging around as well in the potting shed so apologies in france if you hear any um bangs and clatters he really is the most noisy gardener i've ever had anyway i'm in such pain i've had to come back to the full poster and the reason i'm in so much pain is partly because i've just done a 45 hour ballet class which i adore but normally the classes are 30 minutes and this sudden half as much again if you see what i mean has really pushed my elderly bones to the limit but i will admit to feeling rather pained should we say before the class and you know what it is i have been trying to see how long i can stand up whilst cycling all week and when i used to um plank i i would push myself so
much that eventually i couldn't move i was you know planking for six seven eight i mean i got up to ten minutes once and i literally couldn't move so i had to stop doing the planking but what is it about the aging brain that doesn't warn us that we can't do something until afterwards it doesn't make any sense at all does it it's backwards upside down logic because when we're children if i'd when i first started riding a bike if i thought to myself i'm going to try standing up and i i well i'd know i'd have that feeling inside that i'd be okay with it because i'd know that if i fell off the bike it probably wouldn't be as bad as if i fell off the bike now of
course and i suppose when you're young you do try new things but you know that you're going to get fitter and better and when you fail at something you understand why you failed but you know that you're going to improve so therefore it's worth trying again a bit later do you see what i mean when you get older darlings once you've failed that's it really that's pretty
much it isn't it unless you improve your sort of fitness but once the old arthritis kicks in you have no hope in hell and what i've you see that gardener banging doors now goodness me noisy noisy person anyway i'd there's as you come out of the penthouse there's a slight incline up towards the fountain in the communal gardens and then you turn right and or left rather and there's a gravel path and i've i used to only be able to get up the incline if i stood up on my bicycle but now i can i can get up the incline standing up do a left across the gravel through the royal naval archway hey presto i've doubled my time standing up i also have another area
where i have to weave between buses and i've started standing up for that too and i felt quite smug about it till about wednesday as i cycle every day and i thought well yes i'm i need to be getting a job doing this i'm so good i mean like deliveroo or something not that i would but you know you get that don't you get that ideas delusions of grandeur cycling grandeur because
when you see a courier in london or a delivery person they're nipping in and out of that traffic and you always think you're going to go under a bus any minute and so i had this sort of fantasy that i i was keeping up with them anyway by wednesday the lower back was starting to get a bit rickety and clicky and i thought what's going on here and i'd wash my hair i bent over the bath and used a shower attachment to wash my hair and because i was conditioning it i just stayed bent up you see so i washed uh well i dyed it actually so i was washing the dye off and then i didn't bother getting up at that point so i'm still bent over the bath you see really low so i'm not getting water all over the you know the paintwork and what have you and then i conditioned it so i was probably bent over like that for 10 minutes maybe johnny's i couldn't
get up i could not get up again and i thought oh my god i'm trapped i'm gonna have to crawl somewhere to make a call it was excruciating i mean obviously...