Another nice weekend and a bike ride.

Well, this warm weather is certainly going to get me into practice for the heat in Namibia; although I don't think that sitting on my b*ckside on the sofa for most of Saturday will have helped much. We had a viewing on the house at 1pm which pretty much scuppered the day - but did result in a very tidy house. Just disappointed that the lady who visited hadn't looked at the particulars and realised the 3rd bedroom was just a single/study! It was nice to chill out though in a tidy house - even just for a few hours!

Unfortunately I did spend the weekend on edge, due to various building issues. I had the first call at 9pm on Friday night about an issue with our Edinburgh office, which was then followed with major issues in Croydon, our HQ at the Strand (always career limiting when something goes wrong there!!) and Camden. I was dreading Monday morning and the fall out! However, all went as well as it could but never a nice feeling.

We went out for a really nice ride on Sunday from Abingdon to Oxford and back, along the Sustrans route number 5. I can really recommend it! It was quite flat and almost entirely on proper cycle routes and very close to the Thames. The only problem was that there were also lots of walkers out too - I remember the days when I was a keen walker and hated cyclists - and now I've become one of them! It was probably about 14 miles in total and we stopped short of Oxford (due to pedestrians) at a lovely little lock where they were selling ice cream out of the lock keeper's cottage. It was really very pleasant. I hope all the work pays off for the "Big Bike Ride" next weekend!

The fundraising seems to have gone a bit quiet so I need to start emailing around a few more contacts. I need to remind myself that doing this trip was also meant to help the "work/life" balance get readjusted. Failing miserably at the moment on that one, but will get there one day. I'll send a few emails to contacts tonight before I go and see what comes from there!

TTFN!