Busy Doing Nothing

Busy Doing Nothing                                                                

It would be too boring for words if I were to write about my exploits today since from the start it was a wash out. We had planned to jump in our VW Caddy van and go for a nice bike ride somewhere, Box Hill was mentioned and that would have been a marvellous outing, lifting of the spirits and useful for the training but rain caused a rethink. So it was back to the same old same old. In fact we did do; 4 x 15 minutes Qigong and followed that with another turbo session. Both were enjoyable to do but not to read about on the grounds of repetition.

And so it has been a morning of household chores; washing, ironing, sorting, tidying and a few catch up emails with friends who I have not seen in an age.

Steve was sunk into sorting out his email, he has been having problems with it. He has also rung friends in Alabama, who like us have been staying home and out of circulation. They were well and occupied with their garden that is an art work compared to our little meager patch. They even have bee’s, heavenly.

I have never known Steve to show any interest at all in gardening but this summer since I have worked quite hard at trying produce something to eat rather than gaze at, he has started to join in and help with little jobs. He has put in string lines for the climbers to find their way up on. He has never noticed over the years when I had carefully planted bedding plants in blending colours but yesterday he came in the house smiling to tell me that the first flowers had appeared on the mange tout peas and the runner beans.

This time last year we were making final preparations for our journey to Haugesund in Norway for the Ironman 70.3 there. The race itself did not go well for me since my bike gears packed up in the early staged of the bike ride but it was a good race and Haugesund was a most interesting town. Nice friendly people. We took a few drives around while we were there, including the looking over bike course before the race. We have watched several TV series set in Norway since we went there and had such a lovely time. We would definitely like to go back sometime and see more of that fabulously scenic country.

Just to make you smile. I have a daily e-mail from a website.

Dr. Goodword. There is a word of the day of course.

So; Word. Definition and In play section.

The word today was Pleonasm. Definition: Over egging stuff.

In play: It quoted Yogi Berra, who was a catcher with the NY Yankees.

"Déjá vu all over again"!