In more positive news!

Happy Birthday Katy!

 

And of course, Happy Birthday Aunty Katy!!!

Cold, dark, train strike

Welcome to Winter everyone!

Trains

Are just the biggest pain in the bum ever!!!

Spots

Been a while since I had a real bad spot, but my goodness this one that seems to have exploded inside my face is as sore a thing as I've ever felt!!!

Tuesday ‘blues’

Just not the most motivated I have ever been, but feel much less dizzy than have recently! Long may that continue!

Poor wee soul

Struggling a bit after her two month inoculations!
She's getting to know what calpol is now though, hopefully she doesn't need to utilise it as much as her brother has!

Getting a bit silly now

Been without a laptop for over 4 and a half hours...can't think that's very useful for efficiency and cost effectiveness!

Tuesday

And another sunny day, pleasant train journey so far (albeit stuck outside Clapham Junction now) and a fair amount of get up and go this morning!

Long may these good times continue!

Not a bad day

And minimal in terms of dizziness too which is positive!

Interesting Morning

Been in just over an hour and a half and had three power cuts already!
Someone put 50p in the meter already will you?!

Annoying day

Trying to get head down and crack on with work...but bloody meetings and a laptop not playing ball is proving to allow me to be less productive than I would like!!!

August

How on earth did that happen by the way!

It will be winter again soon, good grief!

I can tell you

I don't have a clue about Love Island though, couldn't be less knowledgable about the numerous conversations happening around me with respect to that!!

Annoying Day

Has felt neither one trying not the other and is proving to be tricky to really get going!

Need to finish something to get some feel good!

That heat is building again though!

Could be interesting as to how we're feeling about it again later in the week!

Randomly had a right big downpour this morning!

Another Strike Day

Another RMT strike today so not the normal train patterns today. Happily though things are a little busy, things are at least on time just now and it’s certainly far cooler today than last week! Let’s see if I’m thinking the same later!

And a bottle feeder too!

Bathtime helper

Haircut Time

(See full post)

An actual pea in a pod!

Terrific Weekend

Two peas in a pod!

Week of work

First time in forever...all 5 days in the office!

9.50pm

And this was the only place you could comfortably sit in this heat!

My beautiful girl!!!

Terrific

Extreme heat and an RMT strike!!!

Late night

Quite a late night at work but it's still minging hot in London!

Meant to be 35 tomorrow too! #hothothot

Holy hot shit!

Bank station must be about 100 degrees c!

Not every day

You get to interviews Board Member! Should be interesting!

Another day

Another dollar!

But really wish I could get rid of this imbalance and feeling of 'light headedness' now!

Hopefully osteopath visit will help again tomorrow!

Time for a walk

Going to try and get some cash out...can you remember when we used do to that...get cash at the ATM?!

Sunshine

Still cannot believe in the 5 weeks since Amber has been born we have literally not had one drop of rain!

Early

Looks like everyone is in early to head home before 5 for the World Cup semi final!

Having a blast with Aunty Nona

Backyard Cricket!

Fun in Nona and Modgie’s Garden

Little guy ruining the plants though!

Loving playing with Lily the Guinea Pig

Beautiful Day at the Loch!

Chocolate Ice Cream!!!

Watching Andrew play football

Terrific fun to watch the wee man and his pals in Linlithgow Rose Community Football Club!

Got beat 3-0 but they played football the right way!

Fun with Tiger too!!

A chip off the old block!

Just like his old man when he was younger!!!

Team Ice Cream

And sweeties photo!!

Exceptionally cute!!!

Cousin Lovin

Bedtime reading with Andrew reading the book!

Getting a helping hand from Kirsty

Loch walk

A day late

But Check out my run on Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1366150970

Really happy with it, felt good, felt warm and never felt like breaking down! Nips a bit sore though!

All done

Few more exercises to do and see how we get on!

Hopefully next time I am here it's for cricket!

VRT

Back into London on a day I thought I was working from home, for some additional Vestibule Rehabilitation Therapy. Hoping for some insight from the nurse, but we'll see how we get on!

Fingers crossed something comes out of it!

Hmm fate

Finally got another Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy session in tomorrow and what would you know? Dizziness has decreased a fair amount!

Quiet week

Made slightly harder by the state of the weather and Angus not sleeping through the night due to coughing problems!

Was up for an hour last night then had him in bed for an hour more which hasn't helped my tiredness!

I should sleep after this!

Just felt like running!!!


Check out my run on Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1357725395

A quiet Sunday

A quiet day after all the fun of the fair yesterday, lie in for me then to Leatherhead for swimming. Wee man seemed to enjoy it, but hard to tell. Then a wee sleep before a trip to the park with half of Surbiton by the feel of it!

The star of yesterday

Along with Angus, was little Sprout the Dwarf Hamster! Angus loved him and was actually very good with him, despite apparent squashing going on here!
🐹

More of yesterday

Farm time at mini meadows farm with Kat and Tom! Feeding the geese here

Belatedly posting Saturday Rugby Parkrun

Enjoyed yesterday's trip to Tom and Kat in Lutterworth, pictures to come, but enjoyed some Parkrun touring yesterday too at Rugby Parkrun. Course was wet and muddy, and the short hill you take on twice was very challenging, worked well for a minute as that's where I overtook lots of folk!

Enjoyable, finished 30th in a good time of 23:49 so happy days!

Check out my run on Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1354352242

Great Customer Service

Can’t argue with T.M. Lewin and their customer service.

Took an online purchased shirt in and they not only replaced with correct size but made sure it was the right size too!

Happy days

Holiday in March Booked!

The countdown is on! It's only 53 days till my #holiday to Lanzarote, Spain #tuiholidays http://www.tui.co.uk

Commute Home, we’re standing!!!

Left work a little early to increase chances of getting home, 5 minutes before train home leaves and there are no seats on the train! Thanks RMT, thanks southwestern railways and thanks to the British Government!

Will go there again

I have to say that the meal was absolutely unbelievable!

Really good!👍🏻

Burrito Mama

A new place for lunch today 'Burrito Mama' located in One New Change

Strikes

Well, another day when the good people (sic) of the RMT have decided that a strike day, week of strike action will help the economy and everyone's wellbeing!

Happily the journey wasn't too bad today and I felt relatively unaffected by the action this morning! Will see how things look this afternoon, but fingers crossed it's ok! 🤞🏻

Just went for a run...turned out to be a fairly long and not too slow one!

Check out my run on Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1345716841

Volunteering 2018

Off for another stint of volunteering at Crisis at Christmas today. Booked in to be a driver so if you're on the streets of South East England today best be a bit wary!

Very cold and windy (cold from wind) so hopefully nothing additional to dodge on the roads! All that courtesy of Winter Storm Eleanor!

Quieter today on commute

It's nice and quiet on the commute today too which is lovely!

First day back

Can't really complain actually, it's gone reasonably well.

Got lots done, loads of bits and bobs ticked off and means I should be good to knuckle down to something substantial on Thursday. Back out volunteering tomorrow.

Still feeling a bit dizzy, but nothing like yesterday so I will take what I have right now!

Want to feel Positive?

Then hopefully this Article will make you feel happier about the world as we head to 2018!

Lifecycle year of 2017

This is what I have to beat (not sure what you can beat aside from the steps) next year!

Let’s Go

Anyway, onwards and upwards, let’s enjoy the day and world as it is!

Been for a run (loved the size of the recycling bins everywhere with post Christmas beer cans and wine bottles!) and now feeling happy in bed and watching some darts (Phil the Power Taylor’s last ever game) before a good nights rest and some more fun no doubt back in the commute tomorrow!

Good Health

Of course the good health feels most important right now, firstly with Sardine and secondly as I have unfortunately managed to start the year with another bout of labyrinthitis. 2018 is the year I will definitely beat it!

Happy New Year

Well only 21 hours late, but Happy New Year one and all! Here’s hoping for a fruitful 2018 with lots of happiness and good health!