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September 26, 2009 8:07 PM

I am up exceptionally early today as we have a lot to do and I want to get a session in down at the gym since this week has been a bit slack in that department. So I get up and leave Phil snoozing away and a couple of hours later I'm back after having quite a good workout. The only thing I've noticed is that I am burning less and less calories each time I go even though I'm working out for the same amount of time. I know in my head this is good. It means that my heart is working less hard to do the same amount of stuff it was doing a while back which means it's getting fitter. However, on the less positive side this means I need to work harder or reset my expectation as to how many calories I can realistically get rid of via exercise which won't involve me being down the gym every waking moment. Anyway, I still burn around 670 cals which I'm pleased with.

When I get back home I have a quick shower and we then head on into Oxford. Phil has yet another eye appointment so whilst he's doing that I wander around the shops in the hope of finding some jewellery to match the outfit I have got for the wedding we are going to. No luck however, so I think I'm going to have to resort making my own, which is kind of cool because it will give me a valid reason to get all of my jewellery making kit out and set up.

I also notice that Mr. Woodcote is back and busking in the square and has drawn quite a crowd which is good, because they deserve to get some attention as what they do is unique.

We do stop for some lunch in town and opt for Nandos. On our way there we notice that one of the faculty buildings of the college has had a bit of a face lift and has been sandblasted. It looks brand new so definitely a job well done, it looks spectacular! At Nandos I go for what I think is half healthy though I suspect it wasn't!

On the way home we stop at Maplin to get an aerial to put in the loft so that we can pipe TV upstairs and then at Homebase we pick up a load of bark to lay down on the huge flower bed we have in the garden to try and curtail the weeds from growing. We only manage to get 6 bags of it in the car which by my guesstimate will be half the amount we need so I suspect we'll have to pop back for more at some point.

When we get home the first job we have to do is set up the aerial and run a cable down to our bedroom. We've got a nice little LCD TV that has had virtually no use as the TV signal is so poor around here it was impossible to get a decent picture on one of the little aerials you can buy. So after a bit of faffing around and drilling holes through the ceiling we manage to set it all up and point the aerial in the right direction to get a rather good picture, both analogue and digital. Happy with the set up we then mount the TV on the wall and hey presto, lazy Sunday entertainment set up and installed :)

The next job is to move the bark from the car to the garden and once we'd done that I suggest to Phil it'd be a good idea to open one up just to see how much coverage we're going to get. Well, one bag lead to six and it turns out my earlier guesstimate will be about right, but we're going to wait until next month when the store has a discount offer on to get a bit more off the price.

There isn't a lot of time to do much else by the time we're finished with all of that, so just chill out in front of the TV and congratulate ourselves on a job well done. I also look up the calories I ate at Nando's, and let's just say it's a good job I went to the gym earlier as I've almost broke even on the energy intake!

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September 26, 2009 8:42 AM

I think. Give it a go. Might look a bit fugly but hey, no one's perfect!