no race no problem
Well this weekend marked the first time I worked full hours since Mark passed away in June – the 4th monthly anniversary was last Thursday and to be honest, it went by with very little…
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31 seconds
If last week’s half-marathon at Macclesfield left me feeling I was way off pace, today’s race in Congleton was very much on-pace. A chipped time of 1h34m50s being only 31 seconds off my personal best…
Evening out
Well quite an enjoyable evening with a group of others enjoying food and conversation at the Doubletree Hotel at Piccadilly. Even seemed to be a higher concentration of chemists than normal. All good fun but…
loaves and open houses
I think today was recovery day for the half-marathon yesterday. Here’s me at 4 miles before I ran out of oompf. Feeling rather sleepy to say the least. Still I managed finally to bake the…
man + saw = garden – laburnum
A day of domestic duties and sharp saws. My life of the mundane started with the washing and some tidying up and then diverted into photographing and recording the positions of various electrical features in…
I would never have believed how difficult it was selecting locations for plug sockets.
Another brick on the floor
Well as expected it still rained a lot, but not as much as it had done. It’s apparently one of the worst September storms on record, which makes me wonder how they keep all these…
Anyone got an ark?
48 hours of determined rain so far this week – not sure if it’s a bout I should be building rather than an extension. A definite chill in the air too and that’s only going…
Oxford revisited
Spent a few days in Oxford visiting my good friends Chris and Satomi. I got to know Chris over 20 years ago when we were trawling universities looking at chemistry courses, and both ended up…
Goodbye Facebook
I’ve always had a tolerate / hate feeling to the worlds biggest social networking site, but today I decided it was time to leave it for the last time and deleted my account. Today has…