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Kick off – and New Order

Pic of the week 21/7/19

My (pre) season has begun, with games on Tuesday – Ashcott Reserves v Lantokay at Strode Astro, and a line on Saturday Bishops Lydeard v Exmouth Town, both Western League teams, Exmouth in the Premier Division and BL in Div 1, so Step 5 and Step 6 respectively. Enjoyed both games, am looking forward to the season to come.

On Thursday Becky & I went to see New Order at Bristol Harbour Festival – Lloyd’s Ampitheater – a great gig on a warm, cloudless night. Really enjoyed it, Temptation was, not surprisingly, my highlight. But their finale, Love Will Tear Us Apart was pretty good too (and better than Paul Young’s from earlier in the year)

 

 

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Well better than expected, I knew 4 tracks, this being my fave #lovewilltearusapart #neworder #bristolharbourfestival

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And just for good measure, here is Blue Monday (the one New Order track that everyone knows, but by no means their best)

 

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Blue Monday for all you @neworderofficial fans @emmavictoriabridger @juliacherrill @tappers127

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Update: Here is the official video of the evening


Running news: – Clocked up my 300th Km of the year today

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Running Backwards

Pic of the week 14/7/19

Yesterday afternoon, sat in the back garden whilst taking a rest from hall decorating (see below) I heard a deep, rumbling roar and looked up to see a Lancaster flying by. It flew round the back of the Tor before doing another circuit and then heading off to (presumably) Yeovilton Air Show. A magnificent sight.

Today I ran my 10K backwards. Not literally, of course, that would have been foolish, but in the reverse direction. On the whole, I ran it faster – was an interesting experiment that I must repeat some day.

Having decorated the upstairs hall & stairwell, my attention turned to the downstairs hall.  Still to be finished, but looks a whole lot better than before.

On Friday, Sophie, Becky and I went to see Scouting for Girls at Frome Cheese and Grain.

It was chuffing hot, but it was, not surprisingly, brilliant.

We ended up about three back from the front, a jumping, thumping, pumping set of their favourites. A great night.

And Sam applied for his Provisional Driving Licence – not long now …

 

 

 

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Stripping

Pic of the week 7/7/19

Its been a busy week – no sitting with my feet up in the first week of the hols!

Fed up with the “Steptoe-esque” state of the top landing, I took it upon myself to strip and paint the top landing, stairs and ceiling. The initial stripping wasn’t too bad, but its all the fiddly bits that frustrate. Anyway, at time of writing, I have now applied 3 coats and its beginning to look like the finished article – another couple of coats tomorrow and I could be done (to then begin the downstairs hall and landing. And then there’s the tilly room to be done …)

The weather has been good, plenty of sunshine and blue skies to enjoy when I have ventured outside in between my stripping. The garden is looking good, first sweet pea flowers just blooming, daisies look magnificent, lawn holding up. I do like the swishy swashy grasses in the front, they help to break up the sea of brick that is the extension. Some pics:

Sam decided to update his computer – which was a little fraught when it didn’t go quite as planned, and wouldn’t boot up. But calmly revisiting the situation the next day, and some good troubleshooting and fault diagnosis on Sam’s part had it all working as planned the next day.

On Thursday I caught up with Marck Radford in Shepton, and then Becky, Sophie and I went to the cinema to see “Yesterday”, which was a good film.

And then on Friday we all went to Cardiff for the day, an open day to see if Sam was/is interested in going to Uni. He was inspired by the Chemistry labs and he definitely wants to continue with Chemistry post sixth form, its just where and how. Will be looking into Chemistry degree apprenticeships this holiday.

And in amongst all this busy-ness I’ve still run, spun and swum. No wonder I’ve had to multi-task whilst having my evening snooze …