Food

Hmmm...too late for a photo, all eaten up. Barley risotto with onions and garlic, thin slices of top rump steak and some steamed curly kale. Tasted very good, steak was from Harker's farm shop at Blackberry farm, Clipston on the Wolds. All the beef they sell is reared there and looked after extremely well. I can't buy meat from anywhere else these days.

Robin Hood Half Marathon last Sunday. I PB'd by two minutes without training as much as I have in the past. The race was flat but I wonder if that was it? Maybe I am now going to get faster until I am in the qualification zone for the geriatric Olympics at the ripe old age of ninety. The new course started at the War Memorial. I love this race, it's less than a ten minute walk from the house and the new date late in September is just perfect (in case training went awry in the summer holidays).

back to work

Yesterday 6 miles...windy day!!
This morning just the loop 2.5 miles, but early.

getting ready to go back

Lovely lazy holiday. No miles today..yoga in the evening.

Erica or Eric?

Cooking for gems continues with customers 4 and 5 ... mustardy brussel sprouts and greens, bhaja moong daal. For us at home we also had some cucumber raita.

1st of the year

food will be turkey leg and thigh, roasted potatoes, steamed spring greens and carrots.

Trip to Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's house closed!


7 miles - long run this week.

New Year's Eve 2011-2012

Red cabbage and red onion thorcurry with sweet potatoes. Paanch Phoran, jeera powder.

Speed work. Loops from suspension bridge over Trent Bridge and back.
3 repeats 9.42, 10.00, 9.57. Mile repeats.

Evening foods. Mini mince pies, roasted chestnuts, quiche either stilton or cheddar and bacon (a dash of homemade pesto!).

not much

is happening around here. Vegetable box is got through by hook or by crook, running happens most of the time, though still not in any regular fashion. Teaching load has been interfering somewhat but now that is over. Grant decisions due soon, very nervous. Skiing in Innsbruck next week. Ice and snow edging back again, sigh.