End of an Era

Lewis’s team had their last Youth level match today. Away at Steventon and they won 3-2 which was good. Lewis didn’t play because he was doing a karate grading but I went along and it was a good performance. We then went to the Dew Drop pub later to watch some football and have a couple of beers and say good-byes. They’re a good bunch but I don’t think they’ll keep in touch in the same way that we all do but we’ll see

Weekend away, Red Letter Day…

Tash and I went away on Friday afternoon to Kenilworth to use the Red Letter Day that I always get from my Summertown parents and it was lovely. I worked in the morning to catch up with a few things and then made our way to the hotel. Nice place, perfect for conferences and was busy with people attending. We grabbed some golf clubs and went around their pitch and putt, as expected we were both useless but it was a laugh.

Read some papers with a coffees and then went into the swimming pool and sauna. I can’t swim well and hate it but Tash was up and down doing her lengths. After that we had a drink and then went for our meal, it was very good indeed, had another drink once we finished and then to bed quite early.

I took a notepad with me and we sat and made notes about things we want to do and achieve in the coming months/year so that was motivating. Just need to plan and action all the points we’d made..watch this space…

Tasha’s Birthday

So another birthday comes and goes…started in the usual manner, presents for Mum in the morning in bed, nothing too huge, lots of little ones but she seemed happy with what we’d got her. Normal working day for me in St Albans but she was treated at work as you’d expect. They love her there and got her presents etc so she had a lovely day there.

Getting home to collect Jack from karate was a nightmare, traffic accidents and all that but got him dropped off in the end and then me, Tash, Zoe and Sue got a taxi to the Dew Drop in Summertown where we met with Nikki and Gaz to have a drink and then went next door to Joe’s where we had a table booked.

The food at Joe’s was great, and then there was a Bryan Ferry tribute act afterwards which was very good. We got through some of the drink and everyone had a really good time. Even treated myself to a Mojito at the end of the night instead of a coffee! Lewis was our taxi to come and pick us up which was great, not sure how soon the novelty will wear off though!!!

Another year older, was a good birthday and the rest of the weekend looks like being fun, I am sure we’ll drag it out for her…

Interesting Day today…very Polish

Went to Crewe to visit a customer for Lifecycle today and they were 100% Polish. They intend to only work with Polish and Russian community. I didn’t mind, they were friendly enough but I didn’t like how they spoke in Polish nearly all the time…thought that was quite rude. I couldn’t have installed anything on their PCs or Laptops as those were all foreign language as well!

Met with Jason in the Deddington Arms on the way home and saw loads of people from Hodder as they were having their sales meeting there. Of all the places!! Said Hi to Janice and that was nice.

Worked into the evening, although I have a VERY early start tomorrow to get to the other side of Cardiff for Daydream SPIRIT training so can’t stay up much more writing this.

I have created a list of action points that I need to try and tick off each day and adding a diary note is one of them, not sure how long it will last but we’ll see. Just need something of interest to say.

Oh, Bayern Munich stuffed Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League semi-final this evening in Germany. The strange thing though is that Bayern can’t go to Spain next week thinking they’ve done the job. How odd much that feel that you’re 4-0 up and must still be nervous about the return leg…surely though that is one step too far for the greatest team we’ve ever seen…or is it?

Diet Update

So far so good…I am logging my calorie intake again and have kept below the recommendation every day and yesterday I found I’d lost 4lb so that was a pleasing thing to achieve.

Just need to keep up the low food intake and the exercise past this initial enthusiasm stage

Jack’s 12th Birthday

So this was Jack’s Birthday weekend and he made the most of it! he’s such a lovely lad he really is, lives life so fully.

On Friday we went to Aylesbury Theatre and watched the Mousetrap with Mum and Derek and it was really enjoyable. The kids liked it and it was a pleasant evening. Made us quite proud to hear Charlotte and Jack discussing it and Jack say that he preferred Shakespeare…not many 12 years old would say that I doubt!

Saturday was his birthday and I took him and three friends (William, Stefan and Ben) to paintballing in Reading. We were there from 9.15am until 3.30pm and it was a fantastic day, we all had a fabulous time. Well worth it and they were so well behaved and disciplined with not spending too much money, that’s the one drain on things is the amount it costs for the paint. We were all buzzing afterwards though, really good fun.

We then went to Sue’s in the evening and had dinner and made a fuss of Jack

Sunday we had football in the morning and lost to Rotherfield 4-3, Jack played well and handed out chocolate afterwards and then Mum and Derek came up for lunch, they’d watched and enjoyed the game, there was plenty happening in it!

He’s gone to William’s this evening as they have an Inset Day tomorrow so he’s going to the cinema as well.

He’s had a great birthday and really appreciates it all and kept saying so, like I said, he’s a lovely lad.

Back on the diet

So been out of the loop for a long time and middle age spread has sneaked up on me in the last year. Therefore, out for a 5 mile run yesterday and today back on the diet to watch what I eat to see if I can combat the last 12 months.

8 weeks target to lose weight and get some shape.

Will be putting the simple equation of 'eat less/exercise' more to the test...