Not a granny yet

 Not going to be a granny yet.

Very early miscarriage.  (within first month - which isn't that uncommon)

Didn't post about it immediately.  They are going to try again.

On a happier front, Lindsey and Carrie are getting married at Redemption this coming weekend.

Leg pain

 I'm hoping someone on my flist will have a suggestion that may help as this pain has been ongoing for weeks now.

I had very bad chest around the Xmas/New Year period and had to pretty much give up any kind of exercise as even walking made me feel as though I was being shot in the chest.

That's gone now, I finally found a way of dealing with it (vicious massage of what was clearly a pulled muscle of some kind)

The hard part has been getting fit again from an almost zero baseline.  I've now got pretty much back to normal again, I can swim fast, do my normal gym workout (though it still leave me wiped), morris dance and walk for a couple of hours.

The real problem is that I can manage the exercise without pain, but about 5 mins after I stop, I get severe pain in my left thigh.  The pain can last a whole day and nothing seems to stop it.  Stretching helps a little, but only a little.  If I go through my warm up routine, the pain will reduce for a few minutes, but then it comes back again.

After a day with no exercise the pain will have reduced, but I don't want to become immobile again!

Can anyone suggest (the doctor had no ideas) why it doesn't hurt until I stop exercising?

Cold makes it even worse, but heat doesn' t make a lot of difference (tried hot water bottles)

Working on the computer is really difficult, because the leg gets really painful after a few minutes stilling down.

I'd really like this pain to be gone by Redemption, or I won't be able to sit down for any programme items!

Help !  All advice welcome.

maypoles

 I'm working on my talk for Redemption on folk traditions and I decided to start on ones that got banned by the Puritans.  So I've started with rushbearing and moving onto maypoles.

I was going to draw on some wonderful Czech examples of traditions are still practices there that have fallen out of use in England and are now only in the history books, but alas, vjezkova's maypole photos no longer have working links to them!

Yes, Vera,  this is a big hint that I need your wonderful maypole photos!

(and if anyone, anywhere has  a decent photo of the Baverian bandertanz, I will be in your debt - I simply cannot find any on line.  It's a waltz dance done with ribbons around a maypole)