Wolfscote Dale

Did this walk this morning. Wolfscote Dale is the next dale along from Dove Dale. Dove Dale is a lot more spectacular but gets plagued with hordes of ice cream eaters. I had a good upper body workout as well as the walking as I had to hoik the dogs over a fair number of labrador unfriendly stiles.

The walk gave me an appetite so stopped at IKEA and wolfed down a plate of meatballs and got a new uplighter.

Cromford

I drove out to Cromford this morning and did a few miles along the canal.I took a short video of the dogs getting muddy.

02/03/10 - Milo's 8th Birthday

I gave the dogs a birthday breakfast of some battered fish that was lurking at the back of my freezer and then drove out to Carsington Water and did a circuit - 8.5 miles. It was a beautiful spring day with clear blue skies and not many people around to spoil it.

To finish an enjoyable day, I saw my GP and the blood tests investigating the pain I had in my finger/knee joints have come back fine.The pain has gone now - although it was only slight, the concern was that it might be early signs of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Weigh in, jog, brick shifting

15th Weigh in - Day 197 - 13st 8lbs - 86 kgs

I had a weigh in as I was meeting my Cambridge Diet Counsellor to fill in some blanks on my application form. it's two months since my last weigh in and I've lost a couple more pounds so I am happy with that.

I jogged (albeit at a very geriatric pace) all the way there which I am pleased with, as it is the first decent sized run I have done since starting to lose the weight - approximately 4 miles each way. I intended to get the bus back but got impatient waiting for one so jogged most of the way back as well - as far as the city centre which was a bit too busy with the lunch crowds for me to jog through.

I spent the afternoon shifting bricks into my back garden as some twerps threw one through someones car window the other night. I had already stacked up most of the loose bricks in my car port. The police called out a Council work team and having got the insurance companies ok I let them take some of the smaller lumps of bricks and a couple of wheelie bins that I had filled with the useless broken bricks and rubble. I then moved the ones I'd stacked up into my back garden.

Hit & run

I came back from my afternoon dog walk to find my front wall in this state. The prime suspect is a Tesco lorry seen by one of my neighbours at the right time. Have had the wall knocked down by the Council's Highways team as it would have been too much of a temptation for the weekends drunks to knock over.

A day's food

Inspired by the tv show "you are what you eat" where they put the persons weekly food intake on a groaning table, I thought I'd put together my food intake for today, ignoring the dozen or so cups of tea/coffee.

The real ales are a leftover from the book I've just finished - Bar None by Tim Lebbon after a plague five survivors are holed up in a mansion with a cellar full of beer. Their small patch of Wales is peaceful while the rest of the surviving population are eating each other. As their supplies dwindle, a passing stranger tells them about Bar None in Cornwall where there's plenty of beer so off they go on a road trip through the nightmarish countryside. The author titled each chapter after a real ale. As I normally stick to lager I thought I'd try a few as I read the book. I might have been converted.

The Book of Eli

Two post apocalypse movies in one week!! This one is ridiculous though - the viewer is expected to believe that a bunch of murdering, raping, mad max type bad guys would be prepared to sacrifice their lives to try to get the last existing.....bible!