Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Today I realised nurseries are shutting until FK when, so I spent most of the day in a rather disconsolate heap. You have to count your blessings - we both have jobs we can do from home, no one we know has been ill from COVID, we live in a house with a garden that is big enough not to hear anyone if you don’t want, we have the skills to home school (the academic skills that’s all, perhaps not the patience!), we have a baby who lights up all of our lives every day with a smile that melts the grumpiest of grumpy strops.

But counting your blessings only gets you so far. It it hard not to get stuck in a pile of self pity when you think of what this year could have been like if it was ‘normal’. No one outside the four of us has had any relaxed quality time playing with B. And that’s rubbish as he is great. So I’ll allow myself to mope today, and go back to the bloody blessing counting tomorrow!

Home schooling. Home schooling. Jesus wept she has no idea, no idea how horrific those two words are. And in January - the only busier month working in uni tax is February - and when this year we have Brexit, which will be an unrelenting shit show for anyone at all involved in import / export such as me.

My friend Claire G is pf insane. She runs her age in miles every birthday. 44 this year. She lives just south of Beecraigs so ran to Linlithgow then Bo’ness, along the front to S Queensferry, then Ratho and back on the canal. I ran to Ratho with Ray pushing B and the kids on bikes, then nabbed the bike off Loz and cycled back to get the van. Good to catch up with Bex. One of my fave bits of route but v muddy indeed just now.

Ah, sofa king tired. Walked up to the summit of AS with Elspeth, Bertie on my back and tripped coming down the N side at the top. Went flying but luckily Bertie stayed inter rucksack and Elspeth stopped him hitting his head.

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Trotter training. Hill reps on the seat. Various hills, all of which I felt shite with a capital sh on. Nice to be out in the hideous weather with friends though. Beer with Ivor in the pouring rain and wind at the end. Nice.

A real ffs day. The guy came to fit smart meters 2 days early, then managed to cause quite a lot of smoke to come out of the fuse box when he turned the electrics back on, tripping the switch. Turned it back on again ok then pissed off saying ‘you might want to get an electrician to look at that’. Only later On tonight do I find that the boiler is not working. Great!

But after the smoke I was really shaken up so I went on a buggy run only for the front wheel of the buggy to fall off lots. So in the end I gave up and walked back from the meadows,gradually getting hypothermia. Had to stop at Sainsbury’s on my way home. I was so cold and stressed I did the whole self service till thing and paid and walked out without the shopping. Got home and realised and had to go back, then by the time I got back I had to go to Meggetland for 2 hours with Lucy. Lunch at 5pm. Worried about the electrics too. Calling someone first thing tomorrow.

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