Blog2022 ≫ Packed but relaxing weekend

After a hectic day of work again, verious things going on, Mum and Dad are visiting. I dragged everyone to the Inn Doors for one (actually one and a half for me, first beers for two weeks, basically not drinking still) and then across the road to Green Spice for a curry. I thought it would be fine, it's always empty, and it looked empty when I went past earlier in the car. But no, it was heaving! They just about made space for us, but as a result we waited a long time for our food. Was very good food though, so forgiven. Then early to bed and still not drinking when we got in.

Up early for Parkrun. Up too early really. I went in with Clare who was working, and got there an hour before it started. Sat in the car for a bit to keep warm, then walked around a bit. Very icy underfoot, so icy they had to change the parkrun route. Instead of running 1km up, 1.5km down, and doing that twice, we went 1.25km and then back, twice. So right up to the West end of The Leas, but then not going further East than the Leas Cliff Hall. Very slow parkrun for me, slowest ever possibly?

Folkestone parkrun results for event #362. Your time was 00:28:47.

Congratulations on completing your 104th parkrun and your 93rd at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 109th place and were the 79th Male out of a field of 205 parkrunners and you came 9th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:21:36.

After parkrun back home, then back into town again. First to deliver the car back to Clare's work, then down to the Harbour Arm. The little market down there is quite overpriced, everything on The Harbour Arm is expensive. I think they pay a lot to be there, possibly pay an "apple store" type percentage on everything they sell too, so they pass that on to the customer. I bought some cider and paid twenty quid and last time I bought the same one from County Fare it was sixteen quid, and I thought that wasn't cheap. It's not better than the box of Weston's organic still cider I buy from Tesco, and that was down to six quid this week. And then ten percent off that too.

After the Harbour Arm we went up the Old High Street looking for tea. I bought Clare a gift on the way up and then I finally went in the record shop too. It's bigger than I thought, a lot of choice including a lot of second hand. I bought a Billy Joel. Also this weekend got some records from nephew Jack, a Queen News Of The World1, a couple of Kate Bush, and a 10CC.

Home now, and we watched Morocco knock Portugal out of the world cup. Had some coffee that Mum and Dad got free from the Ideal Home Show a few weeks ago. Now, is talking about coffee without actually using as much of my paid for coffee as I say going to mess with my stats? I'm accounting for having two cups a day of my coffee beans that I buy, but today I've only had one of them. I'm sure it'll all work out... Pasta sauce has been in the slow cooker all day, I hope we're eaten before the England France game at 7pm.

Libertines twenty years ago today, must be one they played with The Darkness as I don't think I went to see them on their own. Then Blur twenty-three years ago today.

Guessing 708 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to £1.63 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 so not the electricity).

5k: Five km, about three miles in old money.

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Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed to Clare and dad to 2, I am a full-stack web developr, and I do mostly javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.