We did all cycle to Hythe again yesterday afternoon. Thing two LOVED IT, even though he fell off twice. He bravely got right back on again no problems. We recovered thing one's lost bag from the tennis club and picked up some food for tea in Aldi. I got a couple of their craft beers to try too and we cycled home again. Thing one complained most of the way home, don't know why he is enjoying the cycling so much less. Possibly just that he'd already done more than enough in the morning. I'd done loads more and I'm nearly five times his age!
Oh thing two lost a tooth while he was at his friend's house. He doesn't remember it coming out, he possibly swallowed it while having his lunch.
I spent my evening adapting this svg of Mario that I got from the Nintendo site. It was meant to be a "colour in Mario" thing but I split it up into components so I could reuse it on my new graphs.
I can't get the colours right yet I have to split the parts out a bit more, the eyes are just one path which means the fill colour is going to be wrong. Also the "M" on the cap is part of the border so it's black rather than red.
Read some more of The Bone Clocks1, I am determined to finish it but I seem to have been plodding through it forever. I was asleep before Clare got home, but woke up again when she came in turning all the lights on... She'd been out with Jen following her birthday shopping treat (she bought sunglasses). Then they went back to her dad's house with a Chinese and it turned into quite a late night.
Speaking of buying stuff a) remember to compare the sunglasses Clare bought with here2, Ro recommended it for ordering new sunglasses online. Also b) I did look at some e-bikes online. Maybe this Raleigh Motus3 it gets good reviews. Not sure about the cycle sheme where I can get a free and tax efficient loan from work as I'd end up paying more than buying online for the same bike if I got the same bike from someone in the scheme4. I did like this very smart looking bike5 you'd not know that had batteries and a motor hidden inside it would you? But I have discounted it as the ride is going to be too firm but also you can't remove the battery to charge it. This means I'd not be able to charge it at work! I have a dream of taking tbe battery out and charging it under my desk all day, so basically free power. Can't do that if I have to run a USB-c lead out to the bike. While I'm preparing a shopping list I like this light with a camera6 a friend at work recommended.
Clare was up early for pump class this morning, and was planning to take the boys to laserquest this afternoon but we've agreed to swap that. So I'll do this one, then thinking of another run, ending up at the Inn Doors. Win win! I am planning to try a longer run as the conditions look good though 10k might be optimistic.
10k: Ten km, just over six miles in old money. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step-count target.
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