WELCOME TO MY WORLD

Last night I got a phone call from one of my old friends Keith “Beefy” telling me that another old friend Dave “Becky” was in hospital in Newcastle with a brain tumour. You may remember a post of mine in mid May “Becky’s Leaving Do”, this was a night out to say our goodbyes to Becky as he was leaving Barrow to go and live with his girlfriend in Sunderland.

I had Becky’s mobile number so this morning I rang him to see how he is, he sounded ok, he has been told by hospital staff that these tumours on the outside of the brain are apparently fairly common and that everything should be ok, he admitted though to being a bit scared (who the hell wouldn’t be) but he is assured its not too bad, he told me he goes down for surgery this coming Thursday to have it removed, I said I will ring him again during the week, which of course I will do, I’m hoping all will be well. This isn’t really the kind of news I wanted to hear at the end of my holiday, ok that sounded so selfish, what I mean is its never good to hear bad news about an old friend and its obviously got me worried for my friend Becky.

So anyway, today is of course Sunday and as such is the end of my weeks holiday, the holiday has served its main purposes quite nicely, I have spent a whole week with my sons Jonathan and Gareth which has been great, I have also had a little more than a week away from work to rest and recuperate, very nice.

During the break we have had 2 days away, two might not sound like much but the main advantage of the break has been to spend a week away from work with my lads and of course it doesn’t really matter where I was as long as I had my sons. Our first trip was on the Monday when we went to the Aquarium of the Lakes then on Wednesday we went to Blackpool Zoo, both these were nice days out and we were lucky with the weather on both. My lads were happy with the 2 days, Jonathan has been out fishing some of the other days and Gareth was happy to spend time with me at home.

On the other hand, on the jogging front I have been a bit disappointed in myself, after jogging the Wednesday just before my holiday began I didn’t jog again for six days, this was too big a break considering the time I have to prepare for the fun run, its only 4 weeks off now. When I did get round to jogging again on the Tuesday I knew I had taken a step backward, I could feel it, I jogged again on the Friday (3 days later) and it felt a little better. I need to get working on it seriously now my holidays are over if I’m gonna be ready. I’m not sure whether I’m going out later this evening or not though, I ate rather well earlier and I’m feeling pretty heavy, its turned 9:00 pm now and indigestion is just beginning to make itself felt, plus of course I start back at work in the morning. I think I’ll go out tomorrow night and will eat accordingly, Monday, Wednesday and Friday sounds like a good idea for jogging nights this week.

So Sunday it is, its back to work in the morning and back to normality, not that I’m altogether sure what normality constitutes, I only have 1 floating day holiday left now to last me 6 weeks which is when my next batch of holidays come along. I’m committed to getting back to jogging in earnest and being ready for this fun run in 4 weeks and I’m really hoping for good news later in the week regarding my friend Becky.

Ok that’s it for now, I’ll say bye and see ya next time folks.