Garden pics, Sunday 4th June 2017
Garden Pics
The Flood – Take That
Track of the week 4/6/17
After last night’s excursion the track of the week had to be a Take That track and this is my favourite.
Great tune, great video (recommend watching it), great metaphor – you might not win the initial race, but keep on keeping on and you will reach your own sunlit uplands (although I’m not sure rowing is the best way to reach sunlit uplands? But if there is a flood, you probably do want to be on some uplands. I think I’m stretching (and mangling?) this metaphor a bit much now. Just hit play and enjoy the music.)
Take That 2017 – Wonderland
Pic of the week 4/6/17
Last night was my third annual pilgrimage to worship at the alter of Take That.
Birmingham NEC (Genting arena), their Wonderland Tour, another fantastic show, supported by All Saints (who were alright)
Got two tickets for £95 each by pre-ordering the album on Amazon (back in October) and spending half an hour with four browsers open (3 Birmingham nights and one Swansea gig) clicking refresh until I managed to snare these tickets. As ever, worth the hassle and the cost.
May Stats
Exercise Stats May ’17
May was a transitional month, seeing the football season come to a close, freeing up Sunday’s for running. I did a fair bit of running in the month, but was surprised to see that May accounts for nearly a third of my miles run so far this year. I’m on course to hit my year’s target of 300Km run.
Swimming, however, is someway of my annual target of 150Km/4,500 lengths. Again, May has accounted for nearly a third of my swimming so far this year.
Spinning – missed one Friday evening class this month (Millfield football annual curry night), but made up by doing an extra class in half term.
Referee-ing – has now finished, but the first couple of weekends saw me officiate three times (all on cup finals) – one middle and two assistants.
Yoga – no stats for this, but have “yoga-ed” on three Wednesdays in the month, enjoying the the stretching and building core strength.
Running:
Ran 42.3 Km (Year: 144.82) Six runs
Swimming:
Swam 300 lengths/10Km (Year: 1038 lengths/34.6Km) Eight Swims
Spinning:
Calories: 2465 (Year: 13972) 4 Spins
Referee-ing:
1 Middle 2 Assistants
Sit Down – James
Track of the week 28/517
Think this would make it into my personal top twenty, maybe even my Top Ten tracks, ever.
Insatntly takes me back to my fourth year at Uni and sticky floored discos in “Notty Hall.”
At the time I had no idea what it was about, I just (& still do) loved the upbeat indie track, and its anthemic nature. Have since realised its all about mental illness.
Play it and you can’t help but sing along.
Heatwave!
Pic of the week 28/5/17
The first half of term ended in a burst of sunshine, a wonderful mini-heatwave that ended with a massive thunder & lightening storm on Friday night/Saturday morning.
Its now Bank Holiday Monday, the first day of half term, and it is grey and drizzling. Typical. But the sun was wonderful whilst it shone, here’s hoping its not gone too long.
Gold – Spandau Ballet
Track of the week 21/5/17
No real reason this week. Just a great track.
My love is like a high prison wall
But you could leave me standing so tall
They think its all over …
… it is now! Pic of the week 21/5/17
Fourth Place!
I’m chuffed with that. A month a go I was languishing in mid-table and doubting my stat-ing future. I couldn’t call a game, and I was growing disillusioned and a little bored. But what a late April/Early May.
I’ve surged up the table, somehow finding myself in 5th place going in to today’s final round of games. And after another good performance I’ve moved up one place to finish the season in 4th place – a personal best, and also the first time I have beaten Marc (Menaggio Myla).
Don’t yet know if I’m in the money (hoping to a least get my entry fee reimbursed), but I am genuinely delighted (and, obviously, easily pleased.)
‘Til next season …
8K Splits
Rather pleased with myself today – went for a run, my normal 7K loop with an extra K on the end by running the Elmhurst cycle.
Each KM split was sub 5 minutes, a first.
Did the 8Ks in 38:32, quite an impressive time.
Father and Son – Cat Stevens
Track of the week 14/5/17
Sam went to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 yesterday and he came home raving about the film and impressed with the soundtrack.
So I looked up the play list and this was on it and thought that it was an apt track of the week.
But take your time, think a lot
Think of everything you’ve got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not
I hope Sam’s dreams stay with him for a long time yet.
And as for me, well,
Look at me, I am old
But I’m happy
A wife of 21 years who I love as much now as I did when we first met, and two wonderful children – my dreams have come true.