Morning all!
A typical Saturday morning of watching kids TV followed by gymnastics. We’re taking The Child to stay with her grandparents so we can go out for food tonight.
How is your Saturday looking? Is it an normal Saturday or is anything unusual happening?
Oh no!
Today I’ll be doing
Small run, trip to the bathroom place to get a quote, sainsbos to buy lunch and dinner ingredients and anything I need for the marathon tomorrow, lunch, meet our friends’ newborn, sheff utd women vs Liverpool at Bramall Lane, quick pub trip, cook and eat dinner, pack for tomorrow, watch Limbo, early night.
A trip to the pub on the night before a marathon is elite tier preparation.
The night before I did the GNR, I was just eating pasta until about eight o’clock and then bed.
I always have 2 pints the night before a big run. Seems to help me sleep through and the impact of the pints is pretty inconsequential compared to the impact of a full night’s sleep.
One of the people we’re going pub with is 7 months pregnant so it’s not going to be a wild one
Got to escort the wee man to football. Then rushing to a kids party. Then zooming to a sold out Hampden to see us play Israel, again. Quick dash to pub after football hopefully.
Zoom
Meeting a pal at 2pm then kicking round for a few hours until a gig he’s putting on happens.
Before that I’ll have a walk then hit the gym and pool
Set an alarm so I’m up in time to watch the first game and everything
Alright.
Hiding from a chalet of screaming kids. Just had a shower and now listening to Peter Broderick in the room with a cuppa. Today involves swimming, so need to source some new swimmers for that. BBQ later, and more beer probably
Ah, Saturday Saturday. So good they named it twice.
I’m not doing anything out of the ordinary: walk in the morning, maybe a late-season picnic, football later, going to our friends’ house for dinner tonight. Still, it’s nice not being sat in front of a laptop isn’t it?
Hey up.
Remembering now why I stopped having wine. Bit urghy.
Think kids wanted to go out to Bath so maybe that, but hopefully just sitting about and napping. Cooking up some daal perhaps.
Coffee
Hoover
Clean the bathroom
Something?
Then pub, curry, pub 
Morning all! Currently watching my daughter do adorable paintings of rabbits whilst listening to Big Thief and drinking coffee, and somehow I’m not hungover today despite drinking much too much beer last night, so the day’s off to a winning start.
Taking the kids to Gulliver’s today as a) it’s somehow sunny up here and b) they’re doing half price tickets if you bring a food bank donation which is a big winner all round.
Our bathroom is only 3x2m but we’re hoping we can get a (small) freestanding bath plus a cubicle shower in there.
Also it’s the only toilet in the house so is going to be a nightmare when it’s installed. Might have to get a gym membership just so I can have a shit
Morning - groggy but nothing critical
Just had coffee and some fried up leftover mash and an egg
Gonna have another coffee then go for a bike - bit misty on the tops by the look of things but that will burn off
Then hopefully lunch with my daughter, pub tonight. Wanna go the bookshop at some point
Apple day today! Gonna head into town and look at some apples. Also, drink hot apple juice and eat some amazing home made toffee apples.
Try and watch some cycling this afternoon and work on job application.
Big family get together later - pils 40th wedding anniversary. First time seeing my niece and nephews in 10 months.
Fair morning to you all,
I’m lead to believe by discussions over the past few days and trips to a couple of shops, that this morning is a banana pancake making morning, good job too having bought ingredients specifically to make banana pancakes.
We were meant to be getting another roof quote at the rather vague time of ‘lunchtime’ today, but by a stroke of apparent luck, the guy was stuck in traffic yesterday and noticed he was right next out our road, so he surprised us mid afternoon, leaving us without any thumb twiddling to do later.
Instead we have free reign to get lean right into a spot of Saturday Kitchen before getting ready to go to Are You Listening? Festival in town. Tbh, there’s not a great deal I’m excited by on the line up, but it’ll mean getting to see friends and hopefully ending the night shaking one or both legs, as well as going out for an as yet unspecified late afternoon meal. All in all, a top notch outlook for the day.
Anyway, before all of that, I’ve got some snuggling to be doing. Have a great day, everyone.
Got me book launch today. Feels good bruh
Puts hands on hips and sucks teeth
Well…
Been hacking away at the freezer with a knife. Just doing a few quick rows of a jumper for M then we need to head off to the party of the year - Baby Vine’s
Got a very expensive grocery delivery coming later, not sure what I’ve added to make it so pricey…Good luck getting that much out of my bank account suckers! (Yes obviously it’ll take me into an unarranged overdraft and I’ll get charged amd I’m the sucker)
If it arrives in time I’m going to make the cheesiest, least vegan quiche you’ve ever seen.
