I did it!

Oh my goodness, have I got a lot to tell you!

I haven't even had chance to blog.

I did the Great North Swim last Saturday in a time of one hour one minute. But I did it.

I did get cramp in both legs and ended up swimming unnecessarily far because the wind/current meant I swam in a sawtooth instead of a straight line. But it was an incredible feeling!

We had a huge party afterwards.

I've collected almost all of the sponsorship money. That's about £150 now.

Last night we took Nat and William to look around the Altham mill and we're going back there tonight for a sauna party.

Sound be good.

Butterflies

We're at Nancy's in London this weekend. Its great to see them both.

We went to an exhibition of butterflies today. Actual real-life, fluttering colourful ones. Cherie was so entranced she was almost in tears of emotion.

Mmmmmm....

Nina, Aiden and Gracie bear came for tea today. It was really nice. I made a shepherdless pie and Nina brought strawberries and cream.

I bought a new shirt and some after shave.

Bats and Gongs

It's been a wonderful day. It's mine and Cherie's 8th wedding anniversary. I made her a card with a poem inside and gave her the gift of a gong bath. She gave me a bat detector.

This morning, we both woke and did Gongyo. We both took the dog for a walk and I picked up a parcel from the post office for Cherie. I then packed a bag and went to Gaddings dam with my sister. The water was quite warm today (14.5C) and we both did 1.2 miles. Alyson came too and did her first outdoor mile. We had a quick picnic (a kwik-nic) and came home.

I ate soon more of the picnic in the sun and then showered and got changed ready to take Cherie out for a meal. We went back to Todmorden to the Top Brink pub and had some grub. The parcel I'd picked up earlier turned out to be my present which was a bat detector. We came home, Cherie put on her wedding dress and we listened to the clicks of the pippistrels.