Pom Pom

With all of my activity of yesterday, today seems much like a holiday in comparison, and even better it's a bank holiday here today so it means Phil gets a day off too.

I've not got a whole lot of anything on my list of things to do and so I spend the morning pottering around mainly in the garden. We do pop to the local garden center however and pick up some very nasty spiky bushes to plant outside our back gate to try and dissuade the local youth population to stop using our alley as a short cut since they can't be arsed to walk the extra 25 yards or so to get where it appears a small herd of troublesome teenagers like to hang out and cause trouble.

With the spiky plants embedded in the ground Phil takes a nap (he's not feeling 100% at the moment) and I head off to the gym for my session with my personal trainer.

The session went really well and I think I even managed to impress myself to some degree. I managed 18 minutes running without any breaks which at the speed I was running at was about 2 miles in total, and my heart rate was just a little above what the personal trainer expected... so lots of progress on that front! He's cut down the amount of cardio I'm doing though to no more than 40 minutes, and even with that reduction I still burnt off about 800 cals during my hour of work out.

When I get back home I busy myself with some more jobs in the garden such as planting some of the many flower seeds I've been accumulating over the past fortnight or so. In doing that I can spot a theme running through my choices and nearly all the flower seeds I've got will hopefully result in blue or black flowers which if they germinate should look rather swish.

After the planting I then set about mowing the lawn front and back whilst Phil is still asleep as to minimise the chances of him sneezing the rest of the day because of the grass pollen, and after that I settle down to do some bits and pieces in the house.

I also get around to making my Easter Chick for my friend who is in hospital (with some help from Phil) and after that it's time for bed since I have to be at Heathrow by 7.30 am tomorrow morning to pick up my transatlantic visitor.

Posted by Abi on the April 14, 2006 9:54 PM