Exercising with a Flutter

[wheezyof]

Quite a lot of us have a Flutter. For those who do, hold on while I have a word with the less wise.

A Flutter is a gadget to help loosen stubborn mucus. It looks like a squat bubble pipe. It has a heavy ball bearing in it, as you blow through it, hard work in itself, the ball vibrates, the vibrations go down into your chest.

Now for the exercise. I used my flutter today and took it apart to clean it.

Oops! I dropped the ball that rolled under my armchair.

I heaved myself up and crossed the room to fetch a foot long ruler, puffed back and got down on my hands and knees. Sweeping under the chair, something went clunk and skidded out to the side, I scrambled, no, struggled up, looked over the side, hmm, a biro. Down I puffed again, this time I reached further under the chair.

There I was, head down, peering under the chair, big , fat rear end waving up behind me, wheezing and puffing when my husband came in. He said as I should have called him to help.

Just at that moment I made contact and knocked the d#@* ball out. It skittered across the floor and stopped in the most difficult to access corner of the room.

I heaved myself up once more,

Using the ruler to gently tap it towards me, bent and picked it up.

By now I needed to sit and recover my breathing for a good few minutes.

I'm not sure if that's part of the real use of a Flutter, however, they do say getting breathless is good for our lungs.

[Ergendl]

Oh, that made me laugh! Glad it was just the husband who came in when you were upended. At least no-one came to harm in the adventure. Has the flutter recovered now after its little streak of rebellion?

[wheezyof in reply to Ergendl]

The Flutter recovered quicker than I did! Come to that quicker than my husband from being waved at by my ...

[Ergendl in reply to wheezyof]

Ha ha!

[CDPO16]

That sounded hard work wheezyof. It reminded of the Talking Heads sketch starring the late Thora Hird - 'There's a cream cracker under that chair'.I've also been told that getting breathless does you no harm but it sure doesn't feel like that when sat gasping nd trying to recover.

[shouty in reply to CDPO16]

Loved the Talking Heads series

[sassy59]

Oh dear wheezyof, you certainly got your exercise and made me laugh too. That Flutter certainly seems to work one way or another. Xxxx😘

[MoyB]

You've just started my day so well with your great post! I read it out to my husband and we're both laughing as not only can we visualise it all from your great descriptive writing, we can identify with it as things like that often happen to us too! Haha! Lovely!

After all that exercise you must have deserved a cuppa and a biscuit. I know I would have! xx Moy

[Patk1]

😁😂🤣

[shouty]

Thank you for making me smile

[madonbrew]

Oh bless you! You had such a way of telling your story! Brilliant and made me laugh 😂 Hope you’re recovered& enjoyed a good drink and biscuit after that!

[Didgeydo]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I needed that laugh. Do hope you have recovered and ready to face the day.x

[wheezyof in reply to Didgeydo]

quite recovered thank you. Ready for my next adventure xx

[kenta]

Thank you for sharing news about your flutter! That really made me smile! Just about use mine so will be handling with care’