Advent Blip Calendar No. 21 - St Paul's Cathedral

It's been a week today since my first dry needling session and what a difference it's made! I'm a different person - no longer hunched over in pain - now walking in a far more upright position, and, unsurprisingly with a smile on my face. I'm nowhere near my previous fitness level, but at last I'm starting to see some improvement in my back and I can begin to envisage a more active future. Touch wood!

So this evening, 6.5 weeks post op, I felt I could travel into London by train and meet intothehills (Guide, trainer, mentor, blip friend and also 'real' friend), for a few celebratory drinks and a bite to eat. We were wandering (albeit at my tediously slow rate) beside the Thames, when I saw St Paul's on the opposite bank and knew Sir Christopher Wren's 17C masterpiece and it's reflection would be my blip. Not berries, but a very suitable image!

The cathedral's sheer size and the whispering gallery captured my imagination as a child, as did stories of the huge construction project and of the Great Fire which destroyed the cathedral's predecessor. It's perhaps even more impressive illuminated at night in our modern world.