Found a top new excuse for a walk!....

(Not that I need an "excuse" with my great new ticker!

Love to walk, JUST BECAUSE I CAN!!....)

www.geocaching.com !

Its a fantastic idea to make going out for a walk fun and exciting!

The premise is simple. You set up/join (Free!) and then have access

to the GEO-graphical CACHE -stashes! People hide/bury "Caches" along

foot paths, public areas etc and then post the co-ordinates as a kind

of "Treasure Hunt"! The rules are simple. You respect the users and the

web sites ethics etc, and play fairly! Everytime you find a "Cache" you

open it, take something (small toys/trinkets/novelties/pen etc) write a

note in the visitors book in the box/container, put your own thing in to

replace the taken item, reseal-rebury it, log on and update the cache

log so the original stasher knows who's been to thier "Treasure"!

My friend Lewis and I decided to try it, and found our first one! It was

so exciting looking for it, and we eventually found it hidden low down in

some tree branches, in a clump of trees in the middle of a field! We found

all sorts of things, and read the various visitors notes, and found an E-trackable

token, which we will "re-locate"!

We had a great walk in the fresh air some laughs trying to find the Cache!

The Squirrell will have to do one now! 

(Watch this space!)

Today was the great atmosphere, that is "Italian Day" in Bristol.

Once a year, all the local Italian Car, Bike, and Scooter owners

converge on a street in Bristol, and just park up! They back

onto the pavements, hard standings, double yellow lines,

ANYWHERE where there is room! Looks chaos, but its a GREAT

atmosphere, and a chance to see some rare (And not so rare!)

Cars and Bikes. (And no police in sight - Thanks guys!) It's an

anual and fun event that LOADS go to!

James Gould and I went. I met up with my friend John Crookes (Pic 4 -waving!)

and drooled over his concours 1963 Parilla (Pic 5.) I also saw vetran

Alfa owner, Mick Hurst (Pic 4 -In Blue jumper!) and ogled his magnificent

1930's? works Alfa Romeo (Driven by Enzo Ferrari himself?!) The Alfa's

still going strong (Pic 6.)

I have uploaded a few other favourites to!

However, my endering memory will be the 3 lads, (early 20's?)

who walked past us at the "Italian Car and Bike day" and 1 said

to another (In a broad Bristolian accent!)

"Ere'....I seen loads of dem Ferrari's, Lamborghinis, and Maserati's,

and tuns of dem Ducati's and stuff...But I aint seen no Porsches yet?!"

It was gem to behold, and took me 5 seconds to stiffle my laughter!

Donna just rang me, from QEH....

Rejection still at controlable level for now!...

PHEW!....(Wipes sweat from brow!)

Even had a bonus, my steriod dose is coming down a bit, and so

is my Cyclosporin....(All good, less toxins floating about in Matt?!)

I am ok for now, not got to go back until May now. REALLY happy boy!

:-)

Off to QEH tomorow for Biopsy, ECG, Xray and blood tests

for rejection testing.

I have my fingers and toes crossed for no/low rejection!!

Keep your extremities crossed for me to please!

:-)

Riddle me this....

Q: What sort of person, with a pellet gun, shoots 2 rabbits,

doing no harm to anyone, in the back, whilst they are asleep

cuddled up together in thier run?

A: Some sort of cruel, heartless Bast**d !

RIP:  Barney and Muffin.

(Going to miss my little guys.)

:-(

Dad and I are planning to go for a boys day out tomorow.

I have hired a race track for the day, so we are taking a

toy to play with!

Whilst manouvering the trailer I bent down a bit fast!......

MY FAVOURITE "Lambretta" Jeans to!

Rrrrrrrriiiiiiipppppppppppeeerrr!!

(Definately need to watch those steroids and diet!)

My frieind Lewis and I decided to take a walk in

our local country side to appreciate its spring glory,

and excercise my new heart!

We strolled for miles, stopped for a (MUCH appreciated

cheeky shandy!) then plotted a route home...

After 6 hours on the move! We notched up 10.2 miles!

(My legs are agony!!)

Even made a new furry friend en-route!

(And made it home intime for a spectacular sunset!)

WOW....

Thats what I call HUGE !...

Wouldn't want a sting from that! (Queen? -Hornet.)

(Sorry blurry pic!)

I am now about to see my 2nd easter thanks to my new heart!

(Ironic resurection from the dead also?!)

J.C. would be jealous?!

I am on a diet, as QEH have told me to shift some weight to lighten

load on heart and help drugs work (some work on body mass, so less

you weight, the less you need? And they work better to?) The sad bit

about this, is missing out on the choccy eggs!

I couldn't decide which egg to treat my Jane with, so decided to

make my OWN "Chocolate Easter Bunny"!   ("Typical Matt" I hear you cry!)

and fill it with treats/sweeties for her!...............But how to do it?

Then I remembered making a paper mache egg at school, and painting it!

So "Typical Matt" style, I embarked on my (rather silly, but fun) endevour

for Jane!

1st I found a balloon....4 layers of mache, and 2 feet to hold him up!

2nd I made some ears. 

3rd A nose and cheeks!

4th Bond it altogether (can you see him taking shape?!)

5th Wait until dry, (or use hairdryer for hours!) then PAINT HIM!

6th Cut a hole in him and fill with sweeties and chocs for my girl!

She laughed, uttered something about "TO much time on your hands!"

but gave me a BIG kiss.....

Made it all worthwhile!    ;-)

Heard this, liked it, and never thought of it like this!!

"Don't think of organ donation as giving up part of yourself

to keep a total stranger alive.  Its really a total stranger

giving up almost all of themselves to keep a part of you alive."

Think on that one!

Organ donation awareness month! 

www.organdonation.nhs.uk