Thursday and I am awake at 7 o’clock as my partner gets up and gets ready to go to her physio appointment. I am not sleepy so I read more of The End of The Day, my partner brings me coffee and I happily keep reading to gone 8:30. I finally get up and have more coffee to wash down a dish of muesli. I clear the kitchen, empty the dishwasher and promptly start filling it again. There is no shilly shallying about as I gather up my portable office and head for the Shed. So there I am in the Shed writing letters to all those correspondence friends who I feel I’ve rather ignored over he last couple of weeks as I attended to funeral admin. There I stayed, in the Shed writing letters until lunch time when I emerged to feed myself chicken soup adn a hot cross bun. Simple but satisfying. Post lunch I head back to the Shed.
I am in the Shed writing yet more letters when a friend messages me from her driving course where she is the only woman amongst a group of young Asian men. She asks me if a book she has sent me arrived. I tell it has not but it is likely that the driver is on a driving course. She seemed amused by that. I continue to write, doubtless repeating myself across letters and finally can write no more. Each letter gets sealed and I add a small embellishment to each one. Its time to close up the Shed but as I do so I notice my first ladybird of the year. Its a photo opportunity and a chance to pretty up the blog.
As I pass the herb pipes I notice one of them has come in to flower so I grab a picture of that as well.
Once in doors I am a man with a mission, namely to get to the post box before collection time so I am out the door pronto to fulfil the goal. I realise that even if they are collected today they may not arrive till Saturday earliest as tomorrow is Good Friday. They may not arrive till Tuesday given the Easter interruption. Once home again its time to train, so change into some kit and get myself into the garage. I set the controls for an hour and set off at a reasonable pace. Its a good hour and I crack 13 kilometres and over 800 calories. So I am pleased with this effort.
Its heading into the evening as I begin to look for Easter treats. Understandably almost all of the Easter fun things are geared to children, so there are no end of Easter egg trails to go on. I’m hoping to find something a little more adult. The evening starts with a dish of tuna pasta and strawberries and ice cream. The timing is perfect, I am just finishing my coffee and its time for kick off between England and Brazil as the European and South American women’s champions compete for the champions tittle. Once over it will be reading more of my current book and an early night for me. I am looking forward to the Easter break and plan to get out into the world. Hopefully I can find some things to do that are not too Eastery. England win on a penalty shot out, that’s not something you hear often.
