Pic of the week 1/3/20
So farewell February and “Hola” March.
Its been a wet and windy month, and the storms seemed to have been concentrated at the weekends. Today has actually not been too bad – nice to see some sunshine, although it has been cold and windy, and with everywhere still wet, certainly not usable weather.
My game today was cancelled, which was a shame as I was due to be observed today, so I went for another 10K run instead. Starting to get the miles in – Glastonbury 10K is about two months away, in fact 9 weeks today. Cruising around the 10K was not too difficult, although the time of 48 min 27 secs was quite a way of last year’s top times, and my legs ache a bit now.
Have been appointed Assistant Ref for the Somerset FA Legends Cup Final, which is a nice recognition of my refereeing this season.
So what does March hold? Well hopefully better weather! To be fair, the garden is starting to show definite signs of life, with some daffodils in full bloom, others set to flower, the allium bed showing great promise and the peonies I planted as bare roots last autumn have all burst forth and showing good growth. Not sure how/if the Corona virus will impact us. Over the last few days it has seeped into my conscience and is no longer just a news item from a remote part of the globe – it may now impact us. I’m not worried from a medical point of view, but I could see restrictions having an impact and a hit to the world economy. I hope the hype is worse than the reality. At work, the pension problem refuses to go away, it now looks like we might be headed for a strike – the prep. school tail wagging the senior school dog, most (50%+) at the Senior School are happy to accept the offer (19% + leave in Sept ’21) but the prep school aren’t. Troubled times ahead. But maybe the weather will be better.