A few things that I haven’t had/made time to remark upon here in the last week or so:

• my gorgeous wife had a birthday. The three of us went to London for the day and ambled around Covent Garden, Regent Street, Tate Britain and the South Bank. Tom was particularly impressed with the sculpture at the Tate, remarking that The Three Graces have bottoms “just like Mummy’s”, which is possibly the best compliment a girl could wish for.
• subsequently, my gorgeous wife went on holiday with her mum to Morocco, leaving son and husband to fend for themselves. Thanks to sitting in train stations with poorly-inked cardboard signs, we survived this ordeal and only went to the pub once.
• Hels and I completed the 20km JustWalk on Saturday in blistering (literally) heat. We were accompanied by our brother-in-law Kevin all the way round the circuit and were able to enjoy some lovely views and some splendid wild flowers. But it was bloomin’ hot and we had to work hard to keep hydrated and to avoid heat stroke. The sections of the walk in the open were particularly hard, especially the mile or so down the south-facing slope into Charlton which was on a chalk and flint track in a bit of a dip - no breeze, bright intense sun, no shade and lots of reflected light and heat from the surface. Thanks to some remarkably generous people, we have now passed our original sponsorship target of £500, for the Parkinson’s Disease Society but we still want to raise more money. What do you mean, you haven’t sponsored us yet? Go here and give now, please and thank you.
• Oh, and it’s my birthday today. I’m already enjoying my first present.

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5 Responses to “Time to catch up”

1. Steve says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 8:54 am

   Happy Birthday!

2. bakiwop says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

   holy toledo, old man - happy birthday!

3. Brian says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

   Happy Birthday Graybo. 21 again is it?

4. Dave says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 8:06 am

   Natal Anniversary Felicitations!

5. Gordon says:
   May 15th, 2008 at 7:33 am

   Why, Hicky Burpday young man! (apologies for my tardiness, like little.red.anna.boat my RSS thingy managed to lose your RSS thingy in a huge strop of RSS thingy losingnessment. It’s rather embarassing so I won’t go into it here, suffice to say my RSS thingy has been chided and threatened with replacement)

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