By Driper on Wednesday, November 25, 2009

A few weeks have passed and not a great deal has been going on but a lot of planning has been happening. Having said that we (Freda, Connor and I) planned a 10km run for a few weeks ago. The unfortunate thing was that the weather was expected to be garbage (very wet, not good for a run) for the next 4 days, we didn't realise that getting there would be 40 pounds each and we had Neil's (Carmel's boyfriend) birthday the night before the run.
We eventually decided not to go and then the weather on the day would have been perfect for running, cool but dry. Oh well. We can say I entered a 10km run, nobody has to know we didn't finish.

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By Driper on Thursday, November 12, 2009

Well we have had a two week break since a visit from Jenni and Ryan (friends from Australia). It was a whirlwind two week visit which was predominantly filled with eating, drinking and sleep. It all started innocently enough. I took the day off to meet them, they arrive after a 24 hour flight, we find our selves in a pub by midday. We hop from pub to pub until Freda joins us at about 5pm. The pattern continues till Friday morning when we get on the Eurostar to go to Paris (well there was some sleep in there somewhere).

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