Hi All,

I'm now fully recovered from my tooth abscess after three lots of antibiotics and can finally have a drink on Wednesday which is brilliant as we are going to the races on Wednesday night. Its not that I'm a big drinker at all but when you can't have any at all, you always seem to want one.

I'm also starting a six weekly course of electro-acupuncture tomorrow at Queens Medical so I went a bit mad this weekend and decorated my daughters room using the new Dulux Paintpod new roller system which we bought on Saturday. It was absolutely brilliant especially for someone like me and other back pain sufferers as once you have set it up you dont need to keep bending down to fill your roller up, you just press the button and hay presto, out comes the paint. Its not a massive room but I had it done in half an hour and only need a couple of extra paracetamol to help with the pain.

I'm sure some of you are thinking "why bother doing it in the first place if it gives me pain" - well I cannot do so many things that sometimes you just want a change and the buzz of doing such a simple thing without too much pain just made my day and I keep going into the bedroom to take a look. I also felt that with my injections due tomorrow at least if I had stirred anything up it would soon settle down again after my treatment.

Sooooooo all you frustrated painters (suffering from back pain) out there - have a go at the new Paintpod while stocks last !!!

I'll get back after my first electro-acupuncture session this week and let you know how I got on. Thanks for reading my blog, until tomorrow ......................