Marathon

Considering it's a Sunday I'm quite busy whilst Phil chills out at home and looks after Rupert when I'm out of the house.

First things to be done include starting to clean the house. I can't rightly remember the last time I gave it a good scrubbing from top to bottom, certainly before we got Rupert, but with Phil at home and able to keep an eye on him I'm free to get on a start with the dusting etc.

After I've done downstairs and some of upstairs I nip out for an hour or so to do a few things. I need to get some sort of storage device for all of Rupert's toys which seem to be all over the floor - he's like a teenager, just leaves stuff where it is once he's done with it :) I also want to go to the gym, but not to do any exercise, I'm still way to stiff to do that, but to give some support to one of the instructors who is running 26 miles on a treadmill for charity. I get to the gym in time to see him do the last 4 miles and I'm gobsmacked at his determination and will power - you could see he was totally exhausted, but kept on going till the bitter end and even sped up the treadmill to its max capacity (12.4 miles and hour) for the final mile so he could get a good time (he needs it to qualify for a competition he's entering next year) which was somewhere in the region of 2 hours 43 minutes.

After the gym I then go to tesco to pick up some bits for our tea - I'm trying out a new recipe for zesty crab cakes and creamy pepper sauce, and as usual I don't have many of the ingredients I need, including celery seeds which I've never seen on a supermarket shelf! But I manage to get most things, with a few substitutes which I hope will work ok.

When I get home I unload the shopping and then finish off the cleaning and it's a relief that the house is back to some sort of order now - having little Rupert wandering around doesn't half increase the amount of vacuuming you have to do :)

There isn't much left of the day by the time everything is done and it's time for tea soon enough, which Phil lends a hand with. Have to say I enjoyed the crab cakes lots, though Phil thought they tasted a bit "weird" :)

Posted by Abi on the July 30, 2006 9:03 PM