Oh dear, it's been a while. In my defence though, I did warn - right back at the beginning - that I was crap with diaries.
So, what's been happening? Not a lot.
In my last post I tentatively announced that we almost had heating and hot water. We now have both, but it was a bit hit and miss to start with. The plumbers did a sterling job, got it fitted by early afternoon and temporarily wired it in to test it was working. Seriously, I was so close to tears when I heard it start up and felt the radiators getting warm. I had to go back upstairs and hide my pathetic, over emotional self!
However, the next job was for the electrician to wire it up properly, with the thermostat and the frost sensor. That didn't go quite so smoothly. It seemed like it did but by the time J got home from work, it had stopped working again. I figured out (5 3A fuses later) that it was blowing the main fuse every time it lit up, so the electrician came back the next afternoon and was still there when I got home after 6pm. He wasn't a happy bunny. And then he started having a PROPER blazing argument with his boss on the phone. Not very professional but to his credit he did apologise profusely and say that it wasn't very professional, and he got it sorted so all is forgiven.
One week on, the novelty of having a hot shower hasn't worn off but we still haven't got used to having heating again and haven't figured out a comfortable temperature and schedule for the heating. Still, it'll be summer soon. :-)
Next 'thing' was my car MoT. I live at the top of a hill - my mechanic lives at the bottom of the hill. It's about 2.5 miles from here to there. I had decided that I would take my bike in the car and then ride home after I had dropped the car off. And then I remembered, for all I have a big car, it is shit when it comes to actually getting stuff in it and I have had my bike in the car before - nightmare. So I decided I would run home instead.
STUPID idea! I haven't run for weeks, why did I think it would be a good idea? And it was raining!!
As it happens it WAS horrible but I got home in under 35 minutes which I was really pretty pleased with and it even encouraged me to run back to collect it after work. It took almost 25 minutes to run back. That seems a bit odd to me, given that it was downhill all the way but there you go.
What really seemed wrong though was that it then took 15 minutes to drive back up the hill. This is no reflection on my mad running skills, but an indictment of the shocking state of the traffic in Sheffield.
The car passed the test and I couldn't walk the next day.
And then I got a really bad cold. Crap. I am now at the coughing up chunks of lung stage. It isn't very nice and I am going stir crazy but I know enough not to go on the bike yet. Even though I REEEEEALLY want to.
Despite the lack of exercise since last Thursday, I have lost 2kg and my BMI and fat % are down so clearly shivering and coughing are really good exercise.
I have consoled myself by ordering a new set of forks for my bike. I say for my bike, but depending on how pretty they are, I might order a new bike to put them on. Uh-oh...
Also, I cut J's hair (short, respectable!) the other day and he has been on a proper downer since. I wonder if the two are related? He shouldn't be down - it looks really nice and he looks about 5 or 6 years younger now. Not fair!
Over and out. Sorry it was mundane, but that's just how I am feeling today.
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