My people call me the dude. I share my teachings in the passages below... (along with many typos, grammatical errors and lazy writing)
Every so often I get the deep fat fryer out. When I do I think it's important to make sure we reuse it as much as we can so fry everything in the house. This week I made a chicken pot pie (with extra bits that I had lying around) with chips. I also made fruit fritters and chicken nuggets.
I popped into London yesterday to see Mark and Lard at the Shepherds Bush Empire with my brother. Pretty funny, it was nice to see them and there were plenty of laughs.
25m in 18.1s. That would make me elite according to this table. Top 94% of male swimmers my age. Top 90% all male swimmers!
https://swimminglevel.com/#results
Rugby training may have to be moved on Sunday, this was yesterday and it's supposed to be wet again today.
April's ordered us 3 meals from one of those boxed meal sites and I made the first on Monday night. Salmon with roasted beetroot and potatoes. It also had two dressings, orange, capers, hazelnuts and dill. It looked good, tasted great but was too much food. Flo had to help me out.
I'm finally getting my old raincoat repaired and relined. I think i've had it for 22 years! Don't know how much it will cost yet but we will see.
We finished tidying up our d&d campaign Rime of the Frost Maiden last night. It was really good fun and quite challenging at times. We now have a party of 6!
Or at least a pb breaker!
100m 1m51s, beating the previous record by 0.9s
500m 10m55s, beating the previous record by 6s
Still not intermediate level for 500m, 28 seconds off that. If I keep it up though it's certainly in my sights. I am better than the intermediate speed for 100m though! 6s better for a man of my age! Even better when looking at 25m swims, i'm 1.4 seconds faster than advanced! 2.6s of elite for a 45 year old! I'm going to blitz it tomorrow. Don't expect the next 475m to break any records...
https://swimminglevel.com/#results
We made this Rick Stein recipe on Sunday, it's a bit browner than Rick's but still very tasty. Philippine belly pork
I bought another game for the kids and think it went down well. Flo won the 1st game, April the second. Pretty fun.
I bought Flo and Arthur a fossil hunting game a few days back and they finally got to play with it this weekend. I think it was a hit. Very messy though!
Despite not playing (couldn't agree times with the other side) I did spend a lot of time at the rugby club. Saturday was the 25th anniversary of my club Tonbridge Juddians merging together and it was a big derby game against our local rivals Sevenoaks for the first team. The 2's kicked off at 12:30, the kids got to play a game or two on the first team pitch before the 1's kicked off at 3. I stayed there till gone 9:30 when they ran out of beer at the club house! Sunday morning I was back at the club to coach the 6's! I'm sure April didn't agree to this when we married.
April had last minute meeting on Friday and was due to chaperone the kids at their school disco. I had to step at short notice. Hmmm.....
We were supposed to have our annual summer bbq at our ceo's house this year but it was rained off so we had a rearranged on in London yesterday. It was right next to Waterloo station. Who knew there were farm animals there?
I've treated myself to a new set of weights. The seals on my old set had deteriorated so quite of few of them were leaking sand. These are cast iron so no chance of that happening.
As predicted, I beat my 100m swim time. 1:52, beat it by another 3 seconds! Or 3% better. What I didn't predict was also beating my 500m swim time 11:01. That's by 7 seconds! Or a 1% improvement!
But another pool pb. Best 100m swim 1m 55s. Beat my previous record by a whole 1 second! 9 seconds off my best 500m swim though. I reckon if I concentrate on the 100m swim tomorrow I can smash it. Don't expect much from the 500m result though.
We've been trying to convince Arthur to let us comb his hair in the morning, April managed to do it this morning and put some of my hair gel in to keep it in place. Only problem is he rode his bike to school with a crash helmet so this is what we're left with. Pretty much what it was like when he woke up!
