Family

Today was a work day, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t get to cycle. In fact, rather too much cycling for my own good. Fist of all, there was a ride into Walker to see a client for a short (non-billable) meeting. This was supposed to start at 11, be over by 11:45, giving...
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With only about 7 weeks ’till the North Tyneside 10k, it’s time for Shana to start doing some longer runs. So this morning we did 6 miles - with three walk & drink stops. See? I’m not as heartless as everyone says. Then when I got home, Huge Dalmatian looked at me with those eyes...
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So I wanted to start the New Year off as I mean to continue. High tide was at 09:30, and the sea pretty calm, so it looked like I’d get to swim across the harbour & back to celebrate the start of 2008. Om the down side, the moon’s about half full at the moment,...
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So today Wife’s Parents arrived on the plane from Gerona. With the whole of that side of the family together, and having spent Christmas in the company of a very agreeable vegetarian (that’s Ms VonSmallHaussen to you), it was time to cook the turkey. The thing is, a 13lb bird takes time to cook ....
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This morning I managed to haul my butt out of bed in time to work on my training plan for 2008 AND take Huge Dalmatian for a walk AND get to the gym in time for my last spin class of 2008. All this on top of having been woken up six times last night...
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I feel a little like Frankenstein. My beautiful creature has turned on me . . . using my own methods. I’d agreed  to go running with Daughter yesterday. But after a fairly late night on Saturday, I wasn’t really in the mood. Try telling that to a six year-old. At ten to eight, she bounced into...
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We arrived only just in time for Daughter’s swimming lesson on Friday . . . which meant that I could jump straight into the roped off lane to put in some lengths. After the previous week, where I’d shown that distance doesn’t seem to be a problem for my shoulder, I decided to push the...
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This is a paraphrase of a headline from The Times from some time in the 50’s or 60’s. The original was “Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off“, which I guess speaks volumes about Britain’s sense of its place in the world fifty years ago. Anyway, although Heathrow’s been fog-bound for 24 hours, the weather...
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Just briefly . . . we slept for the first time in our ‘new’ ‘penthouse suite’ (I can dream, can’t I?) last night. And then this morning, I went running with Shana, and she’s now through the four mile barrier, which is fantastic. She’s also getting so keen on running, that she wants to do...
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. . . but not for me this year I looked into finding a corporate sponsor to fund it . . . but everyone I know is obviously a lot more shrewd than they look. So I took a scalpel to the budget, and worked out how I could optimise the use of...
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