Saturday, 27 March 2010

Population of Birmingham - 1.15 million approx. NZ South Island 1 million approx.



My parents visited for 3 days and then Spook headed off to Birmingham to the Outdoor Show for 4 days. I was a bit worried that the contrast between Birmingham and his Rail Trail Cycle in New Zealand would push him over the edge. It would seem that the Benromach Whisky sponsors of No Fuss are keeping his emotions bouyant, and the spectacle of the very healthy Physiotherapists at the stand next to them (offering recovery methods to athletes), desperately applying their recovery methods to themselves after a night out with No Fuss and their sponsors, is keeping him entertained. I possibly find myself missing the wide, empty expanses of New Zealand's amazing South Island more than him right now!
I slept-over at work last night and the children decanted themselves elsewhere. One is 12 miles north-east of here and the other is 2 minutes down the road and communicating with me via his new Facebook page. ("wassup", "oi", "yup", "nothing much"). I have read the whole of Saturday's Glasgow Herald - a luxury - and now have to consider a 2nd day in a row of running round the croft. The elusive battery has still not appeared for the scales, but the less than elusive pounds are appearing around my middle with gathering speed and in my mind, the excess is approaching 2 stone, rather than the one that it probably is..........

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