Life!

Went walking with Maryanne, Madeleine and Kath on 5th Feb. Maryanne and I drove to Madeleine's house and then she drove us to the start at Crazies Hill where we met up with Kath.  It was a dull day but not too cold and stayed dry so quite nice for walking.  There were some interesting animals on the route - a field of alpacas (very cute), herds of white deer (somewhat surreal) and the most beautiful thoroughbred foals - each horse and foal had its name and immediate lineage on their head collars! Finished with a nice steak baguette - the pub was very dog friendly. 6.5 miles, 3.26 hours, 448 ft of ascent  Route Card It was the Barnes AGM and dinner on 9 Feb. Mike was out at the District Meeting in the morning and then ringing a QP at Twickenham before ringing in the QP at Barnes at 3 pm.  I thought it would be nice to walk over to Barnes from home to collect the car and then take Suki home and have a shower before the meeting.  I didn't leave early en...

Group photo outside the final tower of the weekend - Stepney February 24th/25th . Itinerary Dinner at the Double Tree Hilton in Greenwich Peter decided at the last minute to come and stay with us on the Friday night - and joined us in the Red Lion after the Barnes practice. The next morning Mike and Peter went off to do the first day of ringing - I stayed home!  I took Suki to Linda's about 3 pm and then went by public transport (tube then DLR) to the hotel, arriving just in time to watch the rugby (Wales v England) - they were just singing the national anthems when I tuned in.  Mike turned up about 5.15 and went off to the meeting but I carried on watching the rugby.  Then we got changed and went to the bar, where I had a nice G&T, and then to the dinner.  The food was very good and I felt very comfortable and sociable - I knew just about everyone in the room and had toured with most of them.  I was involved in the handbell ringing between ma...

Well for me anyway - can't say the same for Suki who has perfected the art of finding the best places for sleeping all day! Mike was out ringing all day on New Year's Day, so I had a nice quiet day to myself to get things done.  As usual I made lots of resolutions, goals and targets for myself - with three different apps by which to measure it all (although one had already been uninstalled by the end of the month)!  Was quite pleased by the end of the first week to have eaten more vegetables!  I got the accounts for the Middx S&W off to the Treasurer, and finally got the Numbers Club accounts off although spent a long time agonising over them because yet again I couldn't make them match the bank account funds exactly - but then they didn't match when they were handed over to me! It seemed a long month - but I achieved a lot and was full of motivation to get everything sorted and cleared ready for a new start.  I did all the scanning and shredding, inc...