Looks like butter wouldn’t melt in its mouth

We had the Blackcap back again. The photos are different, as it’s on the seed feeder. They are, however, no improvement quality-wise. Anyway, that’s enough about Blackcaps, let’s talk about my new splint.

Blackcap again. Different feeder, same poor photo quality.

After self-diagnosing my wrist problem as carpal tunnel syndrome I ordered a splint from Amazon, It arrived today. It’s adjustable, it has velcro straps and a metal plate to hold the wrist in the right position. It’s a lot more comfortable than the tubular bandage I had been using for the last few days and, to be honest, much more impressive. It really looks like I have a serious injury instead of a sore wrist. The best bit, though, is the fact it doesn’t peel back as easily as the bandage, so I can’t roll it out of the way for washing up.

I did offer to remove it completely but Julia insists I keep it on, and she will do the washing up.

So my hand is less painful and I don’t have to do the washing up. It is the classic win-win situatio situation.

If I remove that arm with the hanging fat feeder it will be more difficult to gat to the seed

However, there is a cloud on the horizon – I’ve been having intermittent computer problems. New pages kept opening and I lost pages I was working on (though I found them all eventually). As I pondered on the problem it occurred to me that it always happened when I used the “t” key. Then it occurred to me that it might be something to do with the new splint and the “Ctrl” key, as I noticed drag against something from time to time. It’s still happening even now, though it’s less frequent now. That’s right, the splint was pressing on the key and “Ctrl T” is the command to open a new page. I didn’t know that. And even though I now know it, my hand is still dragging across the key and calling up a new page once in a while. It happened six times in the last paragraph even though I am trying to keep my hand up and the edge of the splint away from the  keys.

There is always something new to learn.

Dunnock – apparently a very promiscuous bird – you wouldn’t think it would you?