Biggest walk in a while

 April took the kids in to school this morning so I took the dog out early just before 7.  Nearly 17k steps and 13.1km in around 2h20.  Not quite marathon speed / distance but pretty good.  Just got in as it started spitting.

Great month to extend my fixed term contract by a month

 Same monthly pay, but two bank holidays, and 2 pro rata days annual leave.  The annual leave days are mine so I can do what I want!  23 work days, only have to work 19.

FM and D&D crossover

 Looks like you can play Football Manager as a Drow in the latest edition.

Not sure what happened but my avatar in the game turned into a drow when I loaded it up last night,

More weekend cooking

 This time it's Chicken and tarragon pie with sweet potato mash.  Turned out not bad

Arthur's haircut

What a cool dude 

Before

After

Magic beans

 We planted some more beans this morning.  2 of the 9 we planted 2 weeks ago properly sprouted so we planted them outside.  Arthur threw a ball for the dog which obviously immediately broke one of the recently planted beans so we planted another 3.  Hopefully they will all take.

I cooked a steak Ramen for lunch today, yummy

 

Egg cut

Veg

Searing that steak

Lovely criss cross

Soup

Finally put the clock up in the play room

 After the bigs works a couple of years my cat clock has been out of action.  We've finally put it back up.

Final payment made

 We paid the last installment on our jukebox today.  That's £500 extra each month we'll have for the time being.  We had the money at the time but they offered an interest free loan so took it up.  We've obviously spent the money we had before the loan on other things so will be nice to free up a bit of cash.  It'll certainly help with cashflow.  School fees and wrap around care are bloody expensive.

Here's a silly picture of me when we went over to the Bristol showroom to test drive one.

2 weeks left of coaching the kids

 There's only 2 weeks left of coaching the kids rugby on Sundays before it starts all over again in September with me heading up the under 5s and under 6s.  I'm heading up the session again this weekend.  Going to keep it simple and I definitely won't be running the obstacle course as I was in a lot of pain all afternoon after over exerting myself racing against the kids.