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After missing a day or two of blog, it always seems easier to simply run through the exciting events in chronological order.
Tuesday I did my regular bike ride, which the eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed is now set at 20 miles. I've added a little bit on so it seems a bit more honest when I refer to a "20 mike bike ride". Rounding up 18.6 miles to 20 isn't really a sin, but I've removed any doubt that I've been cheating you all these months.
After months of saying how mild it's been, the winter really has started to arrive. For the first time I felt quite cold at the end of my ride. I wear some knackered old Merrill slip on trainers for the rides. The soles are coming off, and my feet are starting to get very cold as it's windy and plenty of standing water to get them wet straight from the get go.
The wind - and Anne I know you're, or were, interested - was fresh and more importantly a headwind on the last few miles....grrr. Not nice.
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The rest of the day I spent very quietly. I think the treatment have been catching up with me more that I realised, and so I deliberately took it easy. A stroll into Wilmslow to pick up the paper, a cup of coffee, and a new beanie hat. Since I shaved my hair off, I've been more aware of the cold and have been using two beanies - the favourite one of which was bought by my dear mother - but have contrived to lose them both. :0(
Late afternoon saw me meeting with the WGPS ladies group. When they became aware that I was off work having this treatment, they were very kind in inviting into their fortnightly meetings. I was really touched to be made an honorary woman every other Tuesday.
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Tuesday evening I sat in front of the TV and watched Utd at Newcastle. I had been offered a ticket by an old friend JMM who as a Toon season ticket holder was desperate not to go. The thought of a long drive followed by a dull game between two poor teams didn't appeal. For the same reason, I declined.
However, it was a rather exciting game. Utd were much improved, and looked like they knew what they were doing in attack, but were still very vulnerable in defence. I think we should have won - Lingard and Fellaini missing stone cold chances, and the equaliser taking a wicked deflection.
Can't say I'm looking forward to our visit to Anfield at the weekend.
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Wednesday morning saw Gel and I saunter off to Salford. Gel had to return a present to the Lowry gift shop, so we made a bit of a day of it. After swapping the present, we bought tickets to see Richard Herring at the Lowry in Feb (we tried for Rob Delaney tickets too, but he's sold out), and then went over to the Imperial War Museum North where we had a really interesting talk as part of their activities leading up to Holocaust Memorial Day. This is on Wed 27th Jan, and was the date that Auschwitz was liberated in 1945.
Little tidbit of info. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin was close to being finished, when it was realised that the company contracted to provide the anti-graffiti paint, had a subsidiary that had provide the Zyklon-B gas used in the gas chambers. It was argued that to delay the completion would be costly and that "it would be impossible to exclude all German companies involved in the Nazi crimes, because — as Thierse put it — "the past intrudes into our society"".
Lea Rosh (a german television journalist, publicist, entrepreneur and political activist), advocated excluding Degussa, replied that "Zyklon B is obviously the limit."
(Thanks to Wikipedia for the detail quoted above).
Wednesday night is photo club night. We had a good speaker showing us her pictures from a festival in the Camargue, and her successful MPAGB application.
Then home for several hours of not sleeping.......Gregory Isaacs had the right idea for tonight...Night Nurse.
No pics pics of mine on todays blog as I haven't downloaded them off the camera. You'll have to wait.
But, can't have a blog without any pics, so here'a a random one of Tom Waits. if you're a regular reader Tom, can you tour here soon please?
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