Fat Cat ex-colleague meet-up Wednesday again, this time with Tony, Mel, Dave F and Joe. The absence of Rupert (feeling under the weather) and Anders (signed off work for a month with an unfortunately-timed attack of RSI) meant that only 50% of the other attendees were previous bosses of mine. Normally I try a few of the beers there, as they always have an excellently-stocked taproom, but the Tumble Home was so good that I stuck with it.
My home parkrun was cancelled this week because of firework night setup in the park, so back to Kesgrave it was. What with the lack of both hills and Sunday racing excuses, I somehow managed to turn in my 12th-quickest parkrun time ever (and third-best age grade, which is an increasingly-attractive metric the more of an old man I become!)
I gave my coffee machine a bit of a going over on Saturday – backflushing the group and putting a bit of grease on the cam lever and flow valve shafts. I also ran some descaler through it, although it has a water softener fitted so hopefully isn’t getting too scaled-up. I realised afterwards that I’d only done the service (steam/hot water) boiler, not the brew boiler that does most of the work. That was my last sachet of descaler though, so I’ll have to do the other one later. Even so, a small job compared to the full rebuild that my old lever machine seemed to need every few years!
A long(ish) run with Holly on Sunday, for the first time in a while. The rain had stopped by the time we set off, so we risked trails out to Witnesham and back rather than roads (where we would probably have been splashed by cars). It was muddy in places, but we both managed to just about stay upright. Only two wrong turns too!
