Category: Pic of the week

Pic of the week 4/12/22

On Wednesday, Spotify wrapped for 2022 dropped. Coming to last year, not a huge change in what I listened to (although I think that this can be ascribed to the Spotify trap – you listen to what get served up to you, so Spotify continues to serve the same songs up to you.)  Big change is a reduction in nuber of minutes listened, down from 15k + to 9k + I’m not surpeised by that, I do think I am listening less to Spotify, but not really sure why.

If it hadn’t been “All wrapped up week” this week’s blog title was going to be “Lights, lights, lights” : I forgot to blog last week – had meant to write how I had put the outside Christmas lights up last Sunday, but they haven’t been being turned on until Thursday this week (1st December.) They do look good – the white lights providing a backdrop for the coloured ones.  The week before I fitted a new (replacement) IR security light by the back gate, and today I replaced one of the headlights (LHS) on my 205 as the front lens fell of and cracked (as a result of me taking the front lens off in the summer to add silver foil as a reflector as this had degraded.) I replaced the headlight with a like for like item based on the part number, but it was off a Peugeot 309, not 205. I suspect that the indicator unit has also been replaced at some point as it looks different from the RHS. Anyway, job done in a jiffy, I’m happy, and back in love with the pug.

Pic of the week 20/11/22

This week I snagged tickets for two events next year. Early in the week, Deacon Blue announced a UK tour, playing Cardiff on Saturday 23rd September. Ever since we saw them 4 years ago in November 2018, I’ve wanted to see them again – we were due to see them in 2020, but Covid put paid to that – so I’m already looking forward to seeing them in September.  Tickets were circa £45 each.

And today I bagged a Sunday ticket for Glastonbury. Becky was originally going to come, but earlier this week she was told of a 30 year uni reunion on the same weekend, so I shall be going alone again this year.

Last night Becky and I went to see G4 at Wells Cathedral. It was good, but perhaps a little too polished, a little too sterile. I didn’t wake up this morning with one of their songs ringing through my head, which is normally the case after I’ve been to a music event.  But any night out with Becky is a good night out.

Pic of the week 13/11/22

A treat today – as it is Becky’s birthday tomorrow, she took both today and tomorrow off work so I have had a lovely Sunday. sharing her company.

No run this morning, as we had decided to go for a walk – looking at the forecast (sun and unseasonably mild temperatures) last night we had thought about going to the coast, but waking up to grey skies and strong winds, we decided against that, and have local amble instead.  As the morning wore on, the grey lifted to bless us with beautiful blue skies and warm temperatures; the wind abated a bit, but was still noticeable as we headed down to the weir on the Brue, walked along one bank, and back along the other. It was wet underfoot, and clearly good mushroom conditions as we spotted several large fungi as we walked along the north bank.

We returned for lunch and a chilled afternoon, not doing much – a great way to spend a November Sunday.

Pic of the week 6/11/22

I’ve been home alone for much of this week whilst the rest of the family have been enjoying foreign adventures.  Sophie and Becky went to Milan for a few days, and Sam is currently in Morocco, where he met this camel called Mabroc.

Back here in the UK, it has been grey, wet and windy, with little to commend it. other than I got my flu jab yesterday. On Wednesday evening, I sensed the first hint of a sore throat and have been feeling a bit under the weather since – I even took a Covid test on Saturday (before my flu jab) to check: it was negative.

Anyway, little else to report – at least next week it is beginning to look a little drier, this week has been wet, wet, wet.

Pic of the week

I’m getting old.

Somehow, on Monday I managed to pull a muscle whilst sat on a sofa.  I was sat done and just moved slightly and felt a real twinge in my left rib cage and it has hurt all week – particularly on the couple of occassions that I have sneezed.  Hurting yourself whilst exercising is one thing, but hurting yourself whilst sitting down is another, a depressing sign of my ageing body I fear.

And today, I enjoyed a long snooze of about an hour this afternoon, another sign of getting old.

This post is partly tongue in cheek – I’m not as young as I was, but I was able to keep up with the 18 year olds I refereed yesterday, and today I ran 10K in sub 50 minutes, so I’m not doing too bad.

The pic above is the tree outside my window, its turned a beautiful colour.  The trees are all turning now – I need to enjoy them whilst I can as they will soon be leafless and skeletal as autumn rolls on and into winter.  One week of term to go, looking forward to the deserved break, but this half term does seem to have passed quickly.