Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Making pizza with the kids

  The kids love it but they invariably put too much topping on and end up with a soggy pizza.






Just enough room

 We had a dinner party on Saturday so we cooked the Ottolenghi twice cooked baby chicken again.  We only just managed to squeeze the 6 poussin in.  Near disaster too, we accidently poured the stock / marinade down the drain so we had to make a second batch.





Rugby smash


Much better than my first attempt.  A bit high though.

 

What a difference a day makes

 The weather at the gym over the past couple of days

Yesterday

Today (bloody cold though!)


Saturday, 16 November 2024

Happiest day in a while

The base music in my local pub is terrible.  It's a mix of country and western and songs from before 1970.  I no longer carry change around with me so I can never change the music. The jukebox has been upgraded and can now be operated by an app!  I tested it out yesterday and managed to get some Iron Maiden on without the landlord noticing!  I cut my music choices with some select favourites from some of the older locals so as not to make John suspicious.  

Not quite as fast as I thought...

 My swim speeds may need to be corrected!

My watch has a 3 second count down before it starts the timer.  So you can probably take 2-2.5 seconds off each of the first laps.


Height update

 


We haven't measured the kids since early September.  Flo hasn't changed but Arthur has grown another cm all the way up to 112cm.

According to this website
https://www.infantchart.com/child/childrenstatureage.php

Flo is in the 74.3rd percentile for her age
Arthur is 88.4th! 

The same site predicts Arthur to be 1.83m (6ft) when he's fully grown.

No game today

 The opposition called off.  Must have heard I was playing...

Friday, 15 November 2024

Game tomorrow

 My club tried to get a friendly fixture this weekend but there wasn't enough interest.  I think the older players are saving themselves for a vets cup fixture in a few weeks time.  A local village side contacted me a couple of days ago to say that they were short and wanted to know if I was available.  I checked with April and she said I could play.

Fastest 25m swim

 17.9s, beating the previous record by 0.2s back in September.  Do I need to start recording in 100th or 1000th of a second?