Sunday

Did a three hour run with an English chap called Tom yesterday. Tom is one of those guys who does 3 hour runs without any training. We call them idiots. But it was ace to have the company and we had a good stream of chat. He is a great guy. His wife, Becky, was here last year doing her elective (med student abroad thing) and he is now.

My silly baseball cap with add-on tails to protect the neck works really well and does not chafe at all. The heat was still quite full-on though as we didn’t set off until after 10am. Legs are a bit sore today but okay really. Going to go for a short run to loosen off whilst almost everyone else plays Cluedo.

I also just fixed the car. It is a simple pleasure to sort out a little thing that you knew nothing about before. Yesterday as we drove the run that we had done to find the mileage (only 24.6km, disappointingly) the indicators stopped working. The hazards were also not going on, but all else seemed okay. So today I had a ferret around in the car to find two goosed fuses and, luckily, two spares of the same ampage. I also didn’t know that the hazards fuse would do the horn too. All now works and I need to get two knew spare fuses.

Everyone else went to church this morning so Kim and I watched two episodes of 24. We had some very good craic with Karen who calls us pagan scum. She has an extremely refreshingly irreverent attitude to religion, despite clearly having her own strong Christian beliefs. I think it is a double bluff to get me to take up the bible, but I am on to her and remain a heathen. I did eat a hot cross bun though. And I loved it.

Last night we braaied. We cheated and used coals as opposed to wood, but there was still a reasonable amount of fire management. I have to say that it went well and that with a stationary grill. Without the opportunity to raise or lower the grill, fire management becomes even more important.