Bert

Back in Nottingham it’s been snowing as well but the Lad and I manage to stay upright on the morning walk. The streets were icy but the park was fine. L misses the walk as she’s in work early helping her boss find the emails he’s lost whilst she’s been away. They’ll all be there somewhere on his laptop. 

She also misses out on a rather manic shopping trip to Sainsbury’s where the scanners were out of order and I had to shop old school style. In the evening, the Lad and I take my Dad out to the New Inn while L is at yoga. 

On Thursday I take the car in for its MOT at the VW garage on Pride Park. I drop it off at lunch and intend to be back there to pick it up before they close at 6pm but despite leaving home at 4:30pm I fail to get into Derby in time. I come straight back on the next bus and will have to go back to fetch it on Friday. 

Storm Bert largely passes us by on Friday but we do get another light dusting of snow. L is at PT and then meets a friend for lunch in the Golden Fleece. 

On Saturday most Parkruns are off due to Bert and we cancel our planned trip over to Coventry Holbrooks Parkrun where we also planned to see Son due to the icy roads, high winds and now the heavy rain that’s arrived. 

Weirdly Holbrooks Parkrun is one of the few Parkruns that goes ahead while all our local ones are cancelled bar Bestwood. Not fancying that we stay in bed and instead do our own run a bit later when the rain has abated but it’s still too cold for the Lad to have his usual dip in the lake for more than a few seconds. We again have a disagreement over the distance as its clocked as 9.5k on my watch but only 8k on L’s. She’s really not putting her all into it. 

Then I go over to Aston to listen to the match and later we’re in the Plough. I need a few pints in order to prepare for Sunday’s dog show. 

The dog show is an indoor one at Arena UK near Grantham. Not that I was sure I’d get here at all as the lane up to the Arena was flooded. There is yet more wind and rain forecast for later. 

I know straight off that the Lad is going to love his first course as it’s mostly tunnels but he gets so excited that he misses some of the tunnels out. I hope for a slightly calmer dog for run two but I’m disappointed. As I am for runs three and four. We come home with the usual four Es. 

(Sunday 24^th November)