Blogs from Eye, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

I think I spent most of the beginning of the week (after I finally woke up) trying to sort out the clutter I’d accumulated after the past few weeks, and reading some stuff. Takes a while for my brain to re-set after so many changes, and I keep forgetting that, and keep giving myself too much to do! By Wednesday I was ready to leave the house, and went for a walk - thought it was an opportunity to test out the hiking boots over a short distance (I’ve been wearing Merrells for over a year, and find them really comfortable for walking long distances in (I used to walk nearly 2 hours a day!), and when I saw these in Switzerland - the same as I’ve worn, but with ‘ankles’, thought they were a pretty ... read more

Back to my parents to collect my passport, and my skiing gear - which I thought I'd packed away for a couple of years! Faced with the largest pile of post ever, which took me most of the 36 hours I was there for to deal with, although I did get a bit of a walk in the balmy spring sunshine.... ahhhh! Included in the post was my published article on ‘Careless Talk’ for the Second World War Experience Centre - very exciting to see it in print. My Mum asked me a lot of questions about where I would be doing my TEFL course, and who it was for, etc. I didn’t get it until I looked in the Times that day, and realised she’d been reading all about url=http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=lindsay+hawker&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=... read more

Geographically, I haven't really gone anywhere, but mentally - what a journey! For the first time in about 10 years I have everything in one place, and decided to fight my way through it all and seriously de-clutter! The significant one is getting rid of most of my 'cow collection' - anything useful is kept/used, all the cuddly toys are going to a car boot sale... another new experience!! Very tiring - 6+ hours for about 5 days working through it all... alongside the odd cycling ride (including one intended for 1 hour - got a little lost, took 2 hours 20 minutes!) and run... trying to keep up the fitness even though am no longer at the gym, although I am still trying to take on board Mark's special brand of fitness (see Crossfit Manchester... ... read more