Small, Medium and Large

Perfect bike weather this morning, no wind for once. I bet L is well jealous.

She has actually been looking at Sportives and cycling kit. She shows me a ‘Womens Only’ event which rather amusingly has two routes which they have called Short and Medium rather than Short and Long. They seem to think this sort of psychology appeals to women, perhaps it does to some but L seems to find it a bit quite condescending.

Funny thing is, if you’re trying to buy your woman a glass of wine in a bar you’re often faced with two options there as well - medium and large. Clearly somebody is of the opinion that women like to think their bike rides are shorter than they actually are and that their glasses of wine are bigger than they actually are.

L suggests that we stick to our usual Friday routine tonight unless I have the urge to do the Colin Potter 10k in Derby. I have stronger urges that Colin Potter and anyway I’m saving my legs in case I have to swim away from any sharks or supermarket trolleys on Saturday.

(Friday 5^th July)

Deer Psychology

We have the plumber in this morning, fitting new bath taps and new trim. He's also on hand to offer his views to L on deer psychology... the ones on Wollaton Park are all psychos, but we already knew that. MD knows that and has been trying to out-psycho them for the last few years.

All of which has made one difficult decision easy, we're having venison for Christmas lunch this year. We know the one we want, his card is marked. MD and I will sort it, in the dead of night.

I’m not sure tennis is going to happen but my opponent is convinced that the rain will cease at 6pm. I'm not so sure...

BBC forecast says

"The more persistent rain will clear north by this afternoon, a few brighter intervals possible but with further heavy, slow-moving, thundery downpours likely.

Further rain across the region this evening and overnight, perhaps heavy and thundery at times."

There are no squash courts free, so we don't have that as a backup option. If it is on, I can see I’m going to be busy with the court squeegee.

They look at us oddly, again, when we book in but we do actually get a full match in with only a brief shower. We even get a few extra games in as we wait for L to finish her ‘pump’.

Then it’s a pint in a rather crowded White Hart where the pool match seems to have pulled a bigger crowd than Cristiano Ronaldo's one man show against the Czech Republic.

(Thursday 21st June)