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Showing posts with label Dryanuary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dryanuary. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Simply Awful



There's a match tonight, so I park up at my parents' and run the five miles into work. The run was quite good, although I struggled to hear my audiobook over the traffic and with the all American hero about to be interrogated by the Stasi this was far from ideal. 


The run was also nowhere near as fast as Sunday’s with L, naturally. The weather is cold and drizzly but not too bad, I don’t pull anything vital.

L says it’s freezing out there but call me pedantic but it’s raining, therefore it can’t be freezing because if it was it would be snowing. She reports that the pool is back to being empty, so presumably everyone has now binned their New Year’s Resolutions and therefore we can all get back to normal.

After work I run the five miles back the other way. Again it goes well and again I don’t pull anything but I’ll be hoping for better luck later.

Derby draw 1-1 with Reading and even the manager admits afterwards that it was ‘an awful game, an awful team performance, we were individually awful.

I have to say it’s very refreshing to have a manager that actually seems to have watched the same game as us. I’m not sure that’s ever happened at Derby before. Normally you get managers who says week after week that ‘we played well and were unlucky’ when it was blindingly obvious that that wasn’t the case.

What he didn’t say tonight was that it was all his own fault as he tried out a new formation to incorporate one of the new players. Everyone just looked confused, except Reading that is.

Afterwards we support the Navigation and try to keep it in business during the difficult month of Dryanuary. L is at home in bed, exhausted after a night book clubbing. 

(Tuesday 12th January)

Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Tryanuary



Back on the bike and perfect weather for it. Well, actually, perhaps a bit too warm.

Dog training tonight, the first of two this week. L goes to Mickleover and we meet up in the Masons pub afterwards as usual. The pub on a Tuesday. Tut tut.

The pub is deathly quiet clearly they are not dong ‘Tryanuary’. January is a very difficult month for pubs and these places need our support.

(Tuesday 5th January)

Monday, 12 January 2015

New Year Resolutionists



The traffic is horrific and it takes 70 minutes to get to work in the car.

The part of the point of taking the car is that it’s dog training tonight, although I do also get the shopping every Monday. Dogging is called off, so Plan B kicks in. I have the necessary kit with me so I shall swim.

I can see why training is off, it's pretty foul out there, and I just got soaked by a sudden downpour in Sainsburys car park. MD will be gutted, I'm sure he was looking forward to it. Luckily he’s still got a double header on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The pool is packed, as I knew it would be. Full of New Year Resolutionists no doubt. Who’ll all no doubt be doing Dryanuary as well.

I get an email advertising Tryanuary. Now this is more like it!

Make it your mission to seek out new breweries, beers, bars and bottle shops throughout January.

(Monday 12th January)