Hi,
Had no idea what to call this post....lol
So - since my last post what have I done? I spent a week at Helen and Pauls house dog sitting whilst they went on holiday. They are looking after our place and cats so we can go to Italy in September! whoop!!! We are going to Milan, Venice, Rome and Naples!
So I actually really enjoyed staying at their place and taking the dog out everyday - we went on some coastal walks and the weather was great! Everybody was happy apart from Andy who was left in this big old house on his own!
All the fresh air and walking, was awesome and has made me want to do more exercise - so last weekend me and Andy took our bikes into the Quantocks Hills to do a 8km trail that I looked up. We drove up to the carpark and set off. It was 34 degrees, so I froze a couple of bottles of water for us, so it would be lovely and cold when we drank it. This was the plan.
We followed the trail, and then it went VERY steeply down a hill, so much so we were pushing our bikes rather than riding on them, and were slipping and falling...then one of the trails disappeared into the undergrowth so we climbed over the wild growth to get to another path - it continued down and down and I was very worried about getting up again - hoping the way back would be less steep. Then we lost the path again. By this time we were very worried - we had come such a long way down the only way back was going to be up!! The frozen water would not defrost!! It was boiling hot - but ice would not melt - so when we were gasping for a drink - we had a few drops of water at a time. We eventually went onto google maps and found the road way back - about 2 miles uphill!!
It was not fun anymore, I was worried about my own health - and even more worried about Andy - much bigger guy who was sweating so much more than me and losing so much water - and all we had was ice that we couldn't get to! Eventually andy stamped on his plastic bottle to break up the ice so we wouldn't die out there!
In the end we did 11km - in over 3 hours, and it was a nightmare...all that pushing the bike uphill, in a heatwave with little or no water...we were exhausted!
So....Andy lost 9lb that day (went down to 7lb) I lost 1lb which went down to 0.4lb....story of my life.
We have had a heatwave that has lasted for ages - we have a drought, and all our grass is dead lol. It's been great really, although often too hot - definitely too hot for me to go into the attic to sew or into the workshop to work! Just starting to cool down a bit now - think the temp is now about 25 degrees and we are getting rain and thunderstorms.
I am starting to think about decorating the downstairs bathroom...so might have another project on the go again soon!
anyway - bye for now
