Hi gang
Having a very slow start to the day today! Have actually managed to get up but not much else .
Yesterday we went to Pittenweem Arts Festival.
We parked with maybe a thousand other cars in the field behind the village, then walked down through the village to the harbour and back up to the car. I think we visited about 30 venues in 6hrs?: garages, summer houses, people’s front rooms or kitchens - all decked with the most amazing collection of interpretations of what art means. Met people who we had varying degrees of connection or completely different orbits around completely different focuses, met plenty of dogs to give a tickle too, didn’t see the man Lea particularly went to see! but bought Lea a very nice new top etc etc .
as is implied by the “walked down to the harbour” the village has quite a slope! so while my phone tells me we walked two miles yesterday we also walked up and down a lot. We also sat some inspiring gardens some with views over the sea and uncharacteristically the sun shone down without interludes of sleet and hail!
After a particularly early night the waves of fatigue are still ebbing. After two slices of fairly sugary marmalade with a slurp of coffee made from fresh ground beans a certain joie de vivre is seeping in to the space between my ears.
This is the milestone and the reason for the post 
I don’t think I could have done this a year ago and it was pushing the limits. But you have to test them to know where they are and this test I seem to have bested
Might be over optimistic, or just plain full hardy! Because hopefully returning constitution will be enough to carry me through the stalls of the 100 plus craft market stalls around the church at the end of Princes Street and then to the free cello concert in st Giles cathedral that we’re going to this afternoon - it’s the height of the Edinburgh festival at the moment - the centre of town is a complete zoo of noise swirling people posters on every lamp post a complete overload of sensations - I may be mad, certainly it’s adventurous for a strokey brain.
It’s a form of milestone benchmarking recovery in an axis different from and integrative of all of the individual efforts within rehab
I expect many of you are further along this particular part of the road than me but I’m catching you up. I expect some of you are behind me on this road and to you I say you can do it too.
Ciao Simon
Build up your strength for your next day out.
well done though. It looks great there. I used to love visiting Edinburgh…my work sometimes took me there. One day I will return.