Well whaddya know?

It's been an interesting week.... Monday saw me complete 3 runs, Tuesday Carla had her first midwife appointment, which was very informative. Wednesday saw the new sofa's delivered (No more sitting on the floor!) Thursday was do nothing day as the temperature hit -2 and Friday. Well Friday was strange to say the least.

I was invited out for lunch with the board of my old firm. I duly went into the MD's office (Who thought I was abroad) and told him Carla was pregnant and Budapest had been parked for a while. He was very pleased for us and offered his congratulations. the rest of the board and I then went to Hiba in borough High St as Isabelle the C/S director is Lebanese. The food was lovely.

Went back to TWC to say my goodbyes after lunch and was basically (In a roundabout way) offered a better position than the one I was in before I left! To say this has come as a bolt from the blue is an understatement... It would mean Carla can take take more time off when the baby arrives and I could do the knowledge part time. Watch this space as this is a big decision to make!

As for today? well no runs for me as this is what greeted me 20 minutes ago.... I checked on the car's temperature gauge and it's currently -4!

The best laid plans of mice and men...

Well.
Due to some unforeseen (And some seen!) circumstances it looks like it will be a week before I go near the Knowledge again. Today I'm off due to forecast bad weather (Which ironically hasn't hit yet) so a wasted day there. Tomorrow I am having lunch with the board of my old firm, a kind of goodbye thing. Saturday see's Carla and I at Ruby's birthday party. Monday we have a scan, Tuesday is looking good Wednesday the carpets are cleaned and Thursday we jet off to sunny Espanyol for The Do. (Mark's 50th)

So all in all I had better get my arse into gear week beginning Tuesday December 7th and crack on!

Music for today? Another offering from Frankie Beverly An anthem from my youth with enough angst in it for it to be suitable!

Oh, and the forecast? Cold but no snow. We shall see..!

It's a jungle out there...

Got myself out today for three runs. Despite the cold I quite enjoyed these three. finished up at the Hurlingham club which is fairly exclusive (full membership takes approximately 16 years to attain) I would have popped in for a cup o' tea but I don't think "My sort" would have been made too welcome. Unless it was via the tradesmen's of course!

Talking of weather, the forecast is not too good at all. Definitely below freezing this week if not snowing by the end of it! Lovely. Something to look forward too...

I'm going to try and take an interesting photograph whilst on my travels to blog here (If I remember!!) Today's kicks off with this:

Amazing what you see in central London!

Of course it's London Zoo but nice to see none the less!

Today's song is one that's been stuck in my head all morning while riding round London. no idea why but I like it!

No runs tomorrow, Carla is at the hospital first appointment. More to come on that tomorrow!

A VERY good day!

Today I can reveal the reason behind my stuttering start to the knowledge:

Yep, Carla is pregnant! Look at the nose!

Obviously until things were more concrete I couldn't say anything, but now we have had the test scans and bloods back all is looking good so fingers crossed a mini Brennan should make an appearance around 6th June next year! Nothing like making a life changing career diversion and a possible move to budapest AND having a baby!

I want to thank Messrs TulStig for the kind thoughts and help with our spiritual sides over the last couple of weeks. It's been scary!

Todays song? could it be anything other than The Ramones

More to come on this I feel!

A good day Vs a bad day

Went out today (After de-icing the bike. Must remember to take a photo) and managed 3 runs in lightening time. Everything just slotted into place. I knew 95% of the roads I traveled down. I retained the runs all the way home (That sounds awful!) but heres the strange thing. It's like my brain had a leak.. For the life of me I can't complete all three runs without mistakes. It's really odd. It's got me thinking as to how/why we retain information..

I freely admit I have never had a structured education, so studying in the normal sense is quite alien to me. I need Carla to be my teacher (Ooo-er!) and put me in my place. Amazing. I'm 45 going on 15 again!

More to come on this front methinks.

Todays song? As I was in such a good mood for completing 3 runs, I choose this as it always reminds me of some great nights out!

*Edit* forgot to add, Clint came and found the problem, sorted the heating temporarily and will be fixing it properly on Thursday. Yay. : )

A day of two halves!

Taking Carla to the station this morning was an ordeal in it's own right. Temperatures dropped to minus 2 here overnight prompting much scraping with a Macro card as I couldn't find my scraper anywhere! Upon reaching the bike, the brakes were frozen up and I had to scrape ice off of the handlebars and brake levers. Roll on summer I say.

After these minor disturbances, I cracked out two more runs bringing me up to the grand total of 12 learned. I have set a target of 10 runs per week learned otherwise I will be doing this part of The Knowledge forever! Although I did buy a nice piece of software from WizAnn today. It's called call over partner. It works buy giving you the runs blanked out and reveals them as you hit enter on the run. So you call the street git the button and see if you have got it right. Looking forward to using it and relieving Carla of the Corrie/Eastenders ruining call over duty!

Part two of the dodgy came in the form of broken central heating. No heating or hot water as I type. I have left a large voicemail for Clint the plumber to get his arse in gear and call me ASAP!

I'll let you know what happens tomorrow, but fingers crossed we'll have some heat in here!

Today's song is one that's been stuck in my head for a while now. I love the piano in it believe it or not!

When will it end?

This weather is ridiculous. It's actually too dangerous to go out on the bike with winds gusting up to 80 MPH and torrential rain again. When will it stop!

Al I can do is my call overs and hope for better weather tomorrow..

Here's my garden ten minutes ago. Looks like it's 6pm rather than 3!

In other news...

Today saw some very special news come my way. More of which will be revealed in around ten days...

Todays song?

Well....... !

Back out and drowned rats...

Went out today for the first time in a week. I couldn't bow to the weather again. How wrong was I!! 4 hours later I got to my friends house where I'm storing the bike (Cuts out 24 miles per day of the commute) DRENCHED. My gloves were heavy with water and my boots were squelching.

Lesson learned. I can take the cold I cannot take the rain! Managed two runs though so the crawl continues...

Theres only one song today. I think that sums up the day nicely!

Onward and upward

Today see's me complete my sixth run. If I'm to finish the knowledge during this millennium I need to up my runs. My problem is the ride in and out of home to London. It shakes your fillings out the roads are so bad. So I'll be making arrangements to leave the bike at a friends nearer London to eliminate the country roads part of the journey. I'll just have to drive to theirs and leave the car there.

Still, six runs is six more than last Monday!

Todays song is another 80's classic  cos this always gets my feet tapping and also happens to be the first 12" I ever bought..