A Sunny Day

And yet I found no time to sit in the sun, despite working from home today. By the time I had cleared my emails from yesterday a load more had arrived. There were several things that I needed to get done this morning before I set off into Norwich for meetings. So no sun this morning.

Headed into Norwich and had first meeting at the Forum and ended up sitting in the shade outside the coffee shop there. Really interesting meeting and lots of ideas to think about. Second meeting was at St Giles house on their terrace, by the time I got there the sun had moved off of it. So now sun for me today.

Had my first trial run after injuring my achilles the other week, this morning. I find running great but I can get a bit obsessive about it. So not being able to run is a bit of an issue for me. I was able to run for three lots of five minutes. A far cry from 40 -50 minutes I was doing mid week before I got injured. But it was lovely and sunny so good to be running. The injured leg held up well and I am hopeful my trip to the physio tomorrow will result in being able to run for longer.

Am still struggling a bit with this blogging. Want to do it but feels a bit self indulgent and not sure I have enough to write about everyday. So I shall write when I feel like it! How's that for a decision.

And on that point I shall draw to a close for today.

A typical weekend

Ok so not a good start to my blogging career as I forgot yesterday! Whoops. But in my defence I was reading a really good book and didn't want to stop. More about that later.

My weekend started with a nice early morning walk with Mili. Once back we popped up to the supermarket to get food for the weekend. Late morning a friend came round and after coffee and cake we retired to the hot tub to continue chatting. Very civilised and only slightly "dampened" by some occassional light rain. After a spot of lunch and another coffee, our friend headed off and I started on the aforementioned book.

It's called "a puppy called aero" by Liam Creed. Liam suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome. The book is a very honest account of how working with dogs helped him to manage this better. As I am a bit of a softie for animals there were several times when I found myself welling up. It is really thought provoking and a lovely story. Well worth a read.

This morning started with another long dog walk. Two hours and five miles later I had a muddy dog who needed a bath. I now have a damp tired dog sleeping on the back of the sofa.

Here is Mili - she is looking very attentive because there is food about

Well here goes....

Over the last few days I've been reading several other peoples blogs and thinking whether I should do more on mine. Well as I am writing this I think you can conclude what the answer was.

Today has been a strange day. It had the potential to be a really productive day. There did not appear to be much in the diary. But somehow I just didn't seem to get much done. My car had to have it's MOT and thankfully passed. At lunchtime I thought I would walk to the garage to collect it only to find that the "short walk" took nearly half an hour. And gave me a blister on my big toe as well. Then the rest of the day seemed to be taken up with various discussions around the office and on the phone.

Whilst we all know how important communication is sometimes I do wonder how effective it all is. There seem to be some people who are just negative all the while. I find as I get older I have less and less time for these type of people. Life really is too short to spend with people who sap your energy.

The office finally quietened down about 4pm and I did manage to get some of things done that I had intended to. Please don't think I am virtuous staying late on a Friday. It's just that I had sitting in stationary traffic and in King's Lynn on a Friday the traffic is stationary from about 4pm until 5:30pm.

So late home but dinner was fish and chips (with mushy peas) so it wasn't a problem. After dinner had a soak in the hot tub - this truely is a wonderful way to end the day. I didn't think I would use it as much as I do. I really helps me relax and sleep much better too.

Soon be time to encourage Mili to have a bedtime tiddles and head off to bed. I will try to upload a picture of Mili tomorrow.