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I can do 35 push ups.

May not seem like much, but this time last week I couldn’t do even one. I’d just lie face down on the floor, unable to move and unable to reach the remote control to the TV which meant I had to watch all sorts of tedious dreck about people renovating houses etc, and actually listen to the adverts, which I never ever ever do. No one in my family does - it’s a trans-generational tradition. No Taylor has ever been exposed to a TV advert - except for those rare occasions when we can either not find, or not reach the remote.

So anyway. 35 pushups.

I’ve found that it goes up by 5, every two days… which means that if I keep this up, I’ll be doing about 5000 a day by the time I’m 70, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. It would take 1/2 the day - on a good day.

So that’s why I’ve stopped doing them and have gone back to playing bloons instead. I can beat it on the hardest level - without using super-monkeys - which takes a fair bit of doing, believe you me. I’ve got a “can-do” attitude when it comes to that sort of thing.

So yes - a close call there.

I’m in a pub in my hometown Wanganui - Angie is playing on the stereo and I am drinking champagne for breakfast. I’m going to Australia in a week - my sister says she will give me a haircut when I get there, which will be a relief because I look a bit of a wreck at the mo. Maybe I ought to do before-after photies.