You will be thinking that some kind of cruel Victorian circus master is forcing an elephant to perform
impossible tricks when you see this video. I understand that misunderstanding because it is impossible
to perceive the inner life. The external lard is all one can perceive.
My inner life told me that I needed to lose the many months ago, so I began to park further and further
away from the place I needed to get to to remain an employee (of that place). I did it to get a bit of a
walk in in the AM and to keep my new bloody FitBit happy (it's quite demanding). But, some weeks ago
on those walks, I found I was traversing a cricket ground to get where I had to get. After a few weeks of
sunny weather, the old bug began to come back and I began to remember what working knees felt like.
A few weeks later, fate interjected and I found a cricket ball. The next week, I found the net that had
been in the same location I'd found the ball all along. Spooky.
A week after that, I'd put two an two together and thought I'd give it a go. And so, for the first time since
my last serious (terminal) bowling injury (12 years ago), I decided to turn my arm over, just to see if I still
could at the age of 46.
So this is a video of me trying to turn that same arm over a couple of weeks later. Yes, I know, shocking
belly (I really am working on that) and pathetically slow. But my knees here are the same knees that
gave way and crippled me in much thinner days long ago, so I am happy with any "pace"!
Anyway, that hideous gut is finally under attack. I'm walking 6 miles a day and now I'm bowling a bit. To
me, because I have never been the sort of person who asks for much out of life, this really is heaven!