Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "exercise"

Calum has me helping him build a table in his bedroom for his computer. We’re using some old kitchen worktops for the project. The table he has is no longer able to carry the weight of the mountain of stuff he keeps on it. I won’t even try to list the stuff he has. Actually I don’t even think I can identify most of it. A bit like the rest of his room. Being almost eighteen you can imagine what I mean. Anyways we were off to B&Q today to get some brackets for the project which I had to pay for.
I got my revenge though as I forced him to walk all the way there and back. On the way home though he was struggling making me feel a little guilty but he needs the exercise. He always says he hasn’t the money to go to the fitness centre. I keep telling him he could just go for a walk. That never cuts it with him though. Hopefully though the walk did him some good. I doubt that he’ll take up walking to get to places. No the bus is still to convenient.
Tomorrow we will begin the real work of drilling the wall to fit the back supports for his fitted desk. I want to paint the whole thing with metallic paint but Calum isn’t for it. He’s happy to leave it as is. I think that it will look cheap, like a bit of a bodge. Mind it is Calum that will be using it so it is really up to him how he wants it, isn’t it?

Calum has finally moved his room around just as the good weather arrived. Maybe the sun in the sky has given him new energy or it might have something to do with him going to the gym over the past week. He got a free trial period with a friend and they have been going each day. It’s good to see him getting more active as he has been putting on a lot of weight over the past year. Trying to get him to deal with the growing waist line has been a nightmare with him coming up on his eighteenth. At that age we are all more sensitive to criticism especially concerning looks or weight. I did try to just encourage him t go for walks. Unfortunately that triggered the defensive stance that all parent of teenagers will know. Sadly the trial period is only for a month and I can’t see him finding the money to continue beyond that. Of course he should be at college by then and I never know he could still get a part time job. I live in hope.
The sun is to stay with us over the weekend so I’m planning on more weeding this weekend. My strawberry patch needs sorting out again. Magz cut the grass over the past few days so that saves me one job. Another she did was the hedges or at least most of them. I still have do cut the tall one at the back behind the strawberries.
It is a pity that some of the good weather will be missed due to getting my son’s new desk built. That is of course depending on Calum being ready to get the work done as he’s away out tonight with friends. I’m not sure if he has plans for tomorrow night but I’m hoping he doesn’t so he’ll be able to get the job done on Sunday.