After having both knees replaced this year I'm now having to learn to walk like a human again, instead of doing the strange zombie penguin waddle I've developed, and I also want my old 'haughty goth' posture back again because after a couple of years walking with a stick, I've lost it.

I went to the first clinic yesterday and came home ecstatic at the results of just a few minutes on the balance board and raving about how the mini-cycle had made me realise why I was walking oddly and how much it was going to help put things right.

The gorgeous Mr Blondie, who is no good at frivolous or romantic presents but does 'practical and what I need' so well, has just arrived home from a trip to Argos with a mini-cycle so I can keep up the exercises at home between clinics and the balance board is paid for from eBay so it will arrive sometime next week.