Jubilee Parkrun

Started the Jubilee weekend in style with a red, white and blue themed Parkrun.
Having lots of trouble with my Achilles so dawdled round, just managing to stay ahead of an aptly dressed Kate Middleton.
Daz put in a really good effort and finished 12 seconds behind his personal best.
Thanks to Mike who volunteered as Director today and congratulations on dealing with highest ever number of finishers at 165.
Ps foggy photo but I think I steamed the phone up running the whole distance with it in my sweaty hands!

Contracts exchanged

Can't think of a photo to illustrate contracts being exchanged, but the solicitor called today at about 4pm to say they were ready to exchange.
We are due to complete on 28th June which is actually my mum's 80th birthday.
Just got to find somewhere to live by then.
Watch this space!

Off to South Korea

No, no, not me, my dressing table!
A man drove up from London to collect it and said he would be sending it to South Korea to be sold in an upmarket antiques shop. Apparently, English furniture is very popular there.
I am quite worried about it now. The dressing table had never been separated from his friend, the matching wardrobe, for more than 80 years, but now the wardrobe has only gone as far as Beeston, but the DT is off on journey halfway across the world on his own.
Also, check out this photo of Stuart, one of my cycling pals from Sunday. Can you see now how I got in such a panic about not being fit or fast enough!!

Orange Wednesday cancelled due to lack of interest

I think it is the film producers problem as they have put on a load of films that I don't find interesting. They would probably say I should give one of their offerings a go, but I have got a bit wary since Avengers Assemble, and time is precious.
Instead we are going to eat some orange food - check out the picture and in the slightly amended immortal words of Rolf Harris 'can you guess what we are having for tea?'
We might watch a film later on the telly.
Or maybe not.

Update from the Tour of the Peak

Just seen all of the stats from Sunday and of 105 finishers on the 47
mile route, we finished 84th and 85th. Well, well down towards the
bottom, but not that close to collect the wooden spoon!
Also, we actually did the short route and 375 people did the medium
distance of 76 miles, whilst 351 rode the amazing distance of 97
miles. So, when viewed in that light, we were not only slow, but wimps
as well.
Thank you to Ellie for taking this picture of me after the finish.
Looking at it now, I do look amazingly fresh, so maybe I could have
tried a bit harder on the day.

Tour of the Peak

What a day of drama today!
Signed up for The Tour of the Peaks which is a 46 mile bike ride, starting at Chapel en le Frith and going over the Cat and Fiddle, Winnerts Pass and A N Other, plus endless ups and downs along the way.
I started well, but was really psyched out by two of our cycling buddies. Stuart and Chris were both well over 6 feet tall, dressed head to toe in Lycra, many years younger than me and on really light bikes.
Trouble started halfway up the Cat and Fiddle as it was blowing a gale in our faces and I thought I was going too slow so started to panic. We had already told the group not to wait for us, but I was worried about Daz being stuck with me instead of them, so started panicking more, couldn't see the end of the climb and started hyperventilating.
Got round okay in the end and finished about half an hour behind them in about 5 hours 35 minutes. I probably lost the whole 30 mins with my mardy turn!
Couldn't get too upset though as I seemed to be quite the minor celebrity with my lovely flowery steed.  Loads of people kept calling over to me about how much they liked it.
At the finishing line the organisers even took my photo for the website, which they didn't seem to be doing with the other stragglers.
Ps don't think I will be doing it next year!