Over a week late this week (last week?). Oops.
A long-overdue week off work, with nothing planned other than some balance of relaxation and tackling a small fraction of the ever-present list of jobs round the house. The first two of those were to chop up another two brown bins’ worth of garden waste ready for when they collected them on Wednesday, and cut my front hedge, which was starting to encroach on the pavement. Fortunately I did them in the opposite order, meaning that the hedge clippings filled the bins, providing the perfect excuse to shirk the other task. I also managed to clean the bathroom and a few other bits and bobs, and also do the chopping-up and bin-filling once the bins had been emptied.
On Thursday I managed to join a Run for Coffee for the first time in a while, then cycled out to the Red Lion at Martlesham for a colleague’s leaving do. The food was OK, but I wasn’t that impressed when I went to the bar to try to get a second pint, the pumps pretty much went off one by one, and someone was despatched to the cellar to “check the gas”. After waiting a while, I asked them to bring it over if they finally got things working again, but it never arrived, and no-one ever checked whether I might want something else instead.
Later that day I looked up to see not one but two foxes watching me. They looked quite young, so I guess there’s a family of them somewhere nearby.
Somehow I managed to get Thursday’s Wordle in two, despite not getting a single letter in my first guess.
Wordle 1,469 2/6*
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Stowmarket Friday 5 this week, then Christchurch Park parkrun #2 (and a Wetherspoons breakfast for the second consecutive week), and the Newmarket 10k on Sunday. The latter was warm again, and no sausages as prizes this year. We stopped for some lunch at the Willow Tree in Stowmarket, and thanks to the late arrival of Dave and Gripper, who’d cycled to Newmarket for the race, ended up having four pints. It would almost have been rude not to, with Jaipur going for £2.29 a pint. Then barely time for a shower before heading over to Rob and Jo’s for a barbecue.