Busy day Saturday with quite a bit to fit in. Good day though.
Started out with a fairly early start, Clare off to work, and me dragging the boys to Parkrun on the bus. Did not drag them quite quickly enough, we saw the bus heading away in the distance as we got to the stop, so called a taxi from there and made it to parkrun in time. Dreadful weather, I thought it was going to be a poor turnout, but there were about 350 in the end. The boys waited in the Leas Cliff Hall cafe while I ran, and it went quite well. I collected them again after, turns out they had failed to get a drink in the cafe as it did not take cash, so they just sat and played games. We all had a drink together after, and then walked up to Grandpa's house.
Back to the Leas Cliff Hall for a moment, we looked at the listings and there is a Foo Fighters tribute band playing. The tickets are TWENTY FIVE POUNDS! EACH! That is surely a high price for a tribute band? It had better be an amazing show. Maybe we'll go.
After dropping them off I got the bus back to Folkestone centre then another bus into Canterbury. Still bad weather. I had an eye test booked for later, so popped in their early on the off chance and yes, got it moved earlier. I went for an extended eye test as I had been wondering if there was any fallout from my cataract operation, but all is good. My long distance vision is very good, my reading prescription is much the same. I'm sure both eyes were prescribed the same last time, but this time there's about 0.5 difference between them (is it measured in dioptres?). I have always thought that one eye is weaker than the other so I hope the new glasses will be good. I went for very similar frames as I have now but have gone for varifocal lenses so I don't have to keep putting them on and taking them off to move about the house. See how I get on with that. It was Vision Express this time because of the "free" eye test from Tesco, but the glasses cost me much more than if I'd gone to Specsavers and paid for the eye test I'm sure. Will think about where to go next time.
I bought some socks and a massive sweatshirt in the Fenwicks sale, it's too big to wear outside really. I went big as the last one I bought shrunk a bit. We'll see. I also bought some more coffee beans and had an enjoyable if soggy walk round. I did not buy the clothes dryer yet.
Got takeaway for tea and we watched the new Death In Paradise.
Dryanuary and runuary and of course veganuary going fine. I should do a chart of the pushups. They're in a different app that is not easy to export, but I think I did 62 on Saturday. It's not quite enough, I'm way behind Clare, but they're getting easier.
Guessing 38 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 probably comes to £19.06 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 so not the 'leccy).
dryanuary: Not drinking for the month of January.
runuary: Running at least 5k every day for all of January.
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