Sunday and a bit of a lay in before the Sunday weigh in. I get up and go to the bath room to set up the scales on the appointed square, and then I step up and hope.
92.2 KILOS !
Oh yes that’s more like it. The protein and fruit alongside the exercise regime has done its work and before time. I am pleased and look forward to a rest day. Breakfast follows and then there are things to be got ready for the trip next week. The first thing is for me and my partner to do is do a Lateral Flow Test. This was fun relatively speaking as we had got hold of some of the “up the nose only” tests. Fortunately we are both clear. then comes the tricky bit, reporting it on the nhs website, getting a confirmation email back and then forwarding it to the course organisers. This was more time consuming than anticipated, but these things always are. I sort my washing, top up the fish, fill the squirrel feeder and sort out the “to do while I’m away ” list for my eldest daughter. An Amazon deliver brings me a phone holder for the car so that we can use the three word direction app during the trip tomorrow. I spend time experimenting with it and finally decide to use the vent mounting . Yet more time goes by.We draw up a survival food list and go to our local Sainsbury’s to buy it. This of course maybe not necessary but my fantasy is that the food being provided on the course will be far from my protein and fruit diet, more plants and bloody tofu, a sort of tree hugging, good for you sort of menu. Of course this is a fantasy but there is no harm in having a bag of goodies to hand.
Back home its time to watch the Wales v Fiji rugby game and give my feet half an hour on the “Circulation max:x reviver”, cranked up to level 40 so my feet tingle. Just one of those why not things that seems to work for me. Then I wrote the blog so I could spend my evening finishing my preparations.
I go into the night knowing that as from tomorrow I will be out of touch, no internet and no phone signal with a group of strangers, sharing meals and the experience of the course. So this is the last you will hear from me for a week. I may write the blog while I am away and then post it en bloc as soon as I can when I return to a signal. I’m not sure how I feel about this isolation so I am intrigued to see how I respond and what catches me by surprise, although some things will be a constant. I cannot help wondering what I might create over the next week. But now its time to pack my mobile office back pack and start the journey into the desert, and see what whispers in my ear.
