ChunkyMonkey

Race for Life

My sister died of Cancer. It was crap. It was also a life-changing event for many people, and it made me who I am today. As a general rule, I get phased by very little. I believe this is because if you experience the death of someone very important to you, and their death is painful for both them and you - it kinda put things in perspective a little. So, now I am ashamed.  I ran the 'Race for Life' yesterday with Donna.  I did it (with much encouragement) in my goal time - under 30 minutes. Actually, I made it by the skin of my teeth - 29 minutes 30 seconds. I would not have managed that had it not been for Donna. Next year, I will be faster.  I am ashamed because I have been lazy, and not really attempted to get much by way of sponsorship.

See how Donna is almost levitating. See how my feet barely leave the ground.  Still, Davin thinks we came in the top 100. Not bad out of 4,000 runners.

My feet are a little more in the air here

Yay! Thanks to Nanny Cocker for the trampoline!!!

World Cup Fever

Davin is mental about football and is determined Harvey will follow in his footsteps.  Sadly for me, this means that England must be supported by way of cheap and nasty flags adourning my car, and more horrifyingly, my beautiful house.  Look what has been done to the galleried landing. LOOK!!!

Even worse, look what has been done to my beautiful boy!!!

Things that make me go...

Aggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The weather has been glorious. The family has spent much of the last week outside.  Harvey now calls it "My outside". Rebecca and Helen came around on one of the sunny days, and the small one and Harv did a bit of bonding in the ball pool.

The warm weather has brought out even cuter things in our garden.  Look!

Davin spotted this teeny tiny Hedgehog having a sneaky drink of water underneath our hanging basket.  Aw. So sweet.  We gave him some dog food (pictured with him) which he gobbled up.  I can only assume the hot weather is bad for Hedgehogs as he was very tired and had to have a little rest after every mouthful of food.  I just fell in love  with him.  Sadly Harv was in bed asleep, so missed out on the experience.  The dog was very interested though.  Just as I thought there could be nothing nicer than living in the countyside, at one with nature, our pal the Hedgehog rolled over...and....

Ew! Ew! EW! Argh! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa! Look at that HUGE white tick!! I almost puked, I swear to god. Things like that really, really make my skin crawl. YUK. The little blighter was covered in ticks. Oh god, my head is itching...

Other news:

I go back to work a week on Tuesday. Hoorah!

I fell and hurt my right ankle quite badly last Saturday. It still hurts when I walk. This means I have not been running for over a week. The Race for Life is 2 weeks today. Looks like my plan of running the 5 K in under 30 minutes is out of the window.

Harvey is a nutter - I have tried repeatedly to load a photo of him that proves this. However, TypePad seems to be having a moment. Speak soon x