On a happier note, I reached peak adult this month and bought a car. A necessary purchase for the amount of time I spend between London and rural Cambridgeshire. It's distressing to me that it's cheaper to run a car per annum than to take the train even once per week between the nearest station (20 mins drive) and Finsbury Park.
When not working, I seem to have spent a lot of time eating or drinking- aided greatly by some of the beautiful late summer weather, there have been a handful of afternoons which have turned into very late nights thanks to either our garden terrace, or a pub with a nice outside space.... My liver will probably thank me for slowing down a bit in the last week or so...
Sunny Sundays at St Pauls
Sunny Sundays in front of HMS Belfast
Sunny Southbank drinks after a visit to the Imperial War Museum
Oh and events season, that's probably not helped either. For me, September-November tend to be the busiest part of the year for social events- both trade related with work and with Tom and his Army stuff. Naturally the first event of the season required Tom & colleagues to wear their wool mess dress when it was 30+ degrees outside. I've never been so glad to have the freedom of the civilian black tie dress code...
A very late night selfie, after mixing our drinks. On a school night.
Food and fitness wise, I am a complete disaster. My training is but a dim and distant memory, grocery shopping has had to become a daily trip to Aldi for something half prepped or at the very least can be assembled on a foot of workspace with no cooking required. It's hard to believe that this time last year I was on my final 2 weeks of a marathon training plan. One brilliant discovery though....
Lidl Skyr pots
These Lidl high protein yoghurts with fruit compote in the bottom- raspberry, blueberry and natural (they do a tropical one as well I think but I've not tried it). They're 99p each and make a great snack or breakfast components. I also jumped on the sweet potato toast bandwagon this week....
Sweet potato 'toast' with avocado, eggs and sriracha
The verdict- nice enough but a massive faff- Tom cut these about 0.5cm thick, and it still took 3 rounds in the toaster- less of an issue if it's just you, took ages to do enough for us both.
Polly Pockets!
A load of my stuff also just came out of storage, including half a dozen Polly Pocket toys. It turns out most of them were complete or at least 80% complete, so although I've kept one for posterity, This one and some others are all up for sale on eBay- go for a trip down memory lane and view them here if you're that way inclined!
So, that's effectively my last 8 weeks in a series of Instagram pictures. My parents are sort of in at their new house, and we're sort of in a temporary office, and I have grand plans for a new training plan and a bit of a reset on some of the bad habits I've fallen into when it comes to my diet, I live in hope that we might actually get to move into our massive shiny new office any day now, but I sense that may be vain hope at this point. And you never know, I might actually have the time and resources to get back to blogging, which I miss. But somehow, I daren't hold my breath on that either!
