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Surprisingly, shifting furniture can be good for a stiff back.

The carpet fitter turned up first thing and fitted the bedroom carpet very quickly. So we spent much of the afternoon doing a bed shuffle - the twin beds from bedroom 3 into bed 2 and the 4'6" bed out of the ensuite to bed 2 and into bed 3. First, of course, curtains had to be restored, a mattress shuffled, various drawers carted about between rooms, and eventually, the double bed made up, as BIL is visiting at the weekend.

My lower back has been very rigid: last night I was so uncomfortable I got very poor sleep. But carting things about—not, I should add, particularly *heavy* things, just things—doesn't seem to have done any harm. However, I'm stiffening up again. Sigh.

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Beast got very efficient a few days ago. We reached the exhaustive end of our Babylon 5 rewatch, from the very start right through to the Lost Tales, at lunchtime today. But he had ordered a thingy to plug into the telly, it arrived the afternoon, we signed up to Disney+ and watched the first episode of The Mandalorian as we had our tea.

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Singing with chorus tomorrow! It's the second of the outdoor sessions we have planned. I couldn't do the first one, last weekend, but I'm looking forward to this. Hope I can remember how to sing. I shall take a chair with me, as I probably won't be very comfortable standing. And I have to do a home test in the morning, oh my poor tonsils, but at least they are free: I got two seven-packs (because Beast will also be singing with his chorus soon) while I was in Sainsburys yesterday.

Dear me. What a dull post.

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Ah, I'm sorry about your back because back problems suck. Mine has been acting up for months and I'm just sort of resignedly waiting for it to cramp big time. I got a new mattress top that helps a lot but then I made the mistake of sitting down on a park bench last night after a long walk and apparently that was a big no-no. Curiously, for me, working as a nurse usually keeps my back in working order and sitting down is poison.

I should get on with watching Mando S2 with the kid. And then watch everything else I want to during my 2 months summer vacay because I seriously doubt I'll renew my subscription when it draws to end.

And singing! *sigh*

pensnest

It's so odd how some things do hurt and some don't. And back pain is indeed the worst. Normally my back does fine, but this time the stiffness has gone on for several days, so tiresome.

We're thinking of being serial subscribers - starting with Disney to catch up on some Marvel stuff and Star Wars stuff, then we'll go somewhere else.

After the plot-packed episodes of Babylon 5, The Mandalorian, while pretty, is bit slow!

I mean... bodies. So weird.

Mando is pretty, yes. The first episodes were pretty good, the middle was a bit meh, and then it got better to the end. Which is no wonder, really, considering the director was Taika Waititi.