29th July 2010

It's definitely rather geeky but one of my favourite places for lunchtime browsing is the map shop just round the corner from my office. It's especially good when you actually have a holiday coming up and want to find a good map or travel guide to take with you.  Today was one of those days and I came home with this road map of California for our upcoming American adventure.

28th July 2010

This evening we went to a swim training session at our local triathlon club and I was very glad that I'd had the foresight to put our breadmaker on before we went out so that there was freshly cooked bread waiting for us when we got back.  It wasn't the best loaf having been done on the 'rapid bake' setting but we were so hungry after swimming nearly 2 kilometres that we didn't care!

27th July 2010

These are my new shoes. I bought them today to take on our California holiday so that I have some sensible footwear for walking in Yosemite without having to lug my heavy walking boots all the way there. Only trouble is my Mum already has her eyes on them and wants me to take them when we go down at the weekend so she can try them on!

26th July 2010

When the train timetable changed last December they added a new train which was formed of 4 carriages waiting at the station and 4 from an incoming train. However it seems they forgot to give the station staff the manual on connecting them and so for the first couple of weeks it was a disaster as they struggled to join the carriages. Trains were frequently late boarding and on a couple of occasions forced to run as a 4 coach train, happily though they seem to have got the hang of it now and we can get home promptly.

25th July 2010

We took a trip to Bluewater to do some shopping today but as you can see from the bags our spoils were fairly meagre.  Our credit cards can breathe a sigh of relief!

24th July 2010

Today's picture was going to be Stephen doing the Hyde Park triathlon but then I spotted that Iwan Thomas was doing it too and I got a bit starstruck! He was in the same start wave as Mr W and so there were lots of opportunities for celeb photos as well as hubby shots.

23rd July 2010

We get quite a lot of cats round our neighbourhood and this evening when I got home from work I found this rather cute one sitting on our drive.