Not dead, honest

 

Well it's been a while !  - one of my friends even sent me a message to check i had not abandoned my blog.

So I have a lot of October to talk about, best dig into the photo's and see what i did !  

 

3rd of October - Leeds First Friday.  

We Stayed at the Hyatt.  Pints and straws was good, there was a fire alarm as we got ready for the main event though, and Charlotte was half dressed !  We were probably the last ones down - apparently someone cooking a chicken in a microwave in one of the apartments.

The evening was good, we teamed up with lovely Benni and Sally.  

After spending a bit of time at the Bridge End Social we ventured onwards to the Bridge - mainly due to likelihood of  80's music. Then Fibre - as Benni wanted free Pizza, and Blayds for the cheap gin, and fun drag DJ/music.  

I think we did the End Bar, and Behind Closed Doors after those, but only vague memories. We had too many double gins ! 

Breakfast in the morning was made memorable by a lady from Essex who was shouting about her boyfriends sausage being lukewarm and spouting about food poisoning - which we enjoyed 😂 

She didn't seem in the mood to joke, so I didn't ask to feel her boyfriends sausage.

Despite eating breakfast I was still a bit hungover in the morning but we still managed to go look around the markets. I was meant to be meeting with some ex-colleagues for a coffee at 1pm. I managed to make it to that, and spent a few hours chatting with them which was nice !   

We relocated to Hull afterwards.  Unfortunately it seems like we must have got hit with a stone on the way to Leeds as we returned to the car park to find a large crack in the windscreen. 

 

5th of October - Deacon Blue, Connexin Live Hull

Deacon Blue - one of Charlotte's favorite bands was playing in Hull and I had got us tickets for this a while ago.  

There was some issue with finding the seats, the signage was a bit confusing ! and then Charlotte started to suffer with back pain and had to go get pain killers from the st johns ambulance !  But this was all before the main act came on, and we were fine by the time they did.

They played some of their best hits, such as  Dignity and Real Gone Kid, and they sounded very much like the radio versions from yesteryear which was really good !  

I didn't know a lot of the songs, but I did really enjoy it - not as much as Charlotte, she was really getting into it 😊 

Getting home was a bit of a pain due to the queue out of the car park, but we did eventually get out. 

 

9th of October - Work trip to London

I was reassigned from a project i was quite getting into, before the fruits of my endeavors really got to be seen  - which I was quite upset about. It was meant to be because I was required to work on a more important project.

There was a face to face for this new project in London, so I had to go to that - I am not keen on trains or London, or changes to my routine. So it was a bit stressful. I managed OK though.  An LNER guy seemed to clock me and say something to a colleague while walking past on the platform at Wakefield on my outward journey.  Didn't cause me masses of upset, only mentioning for the sake of record.

Got back fine, and drove straight from Wakefield to Hull to see Charlotte - it was a Thursday so it's my only opportunity when she had the kids that weekend. So I had a late tea, and not much of an evening, but was still fab to be with her for a bit.

On Friday we walked to the park in the morning to see the goose with the injured wing, had lunch then I drove home. 

  

16th of October 

Went to Hull, we had a lovely Chilli for tea.   I worked from there during the day, in the evening Charlotte made us a fakeaway lamb kebab which was amazing ! 

On Saturday we did the park run in the morning, there were pace runners this time, which was excellent as I was able to mostly keep up with the 38 minute one and get a PB - 37 mins 52 seconds.  I went a bit quick on the first lap and was flagging by the last one, so it did take a lot out of me though.

Went to Beverly for lunch and a smooch around, I had a lovely jacket potato with orange cheese in a nice cafe.  Afterwards we looked around the shops and the market then headed over to the minster. 

In the evening we took a very fast Uber into Hull for a few drinkies - which we needed after that drive ! 

The Hop and Vine was the first place, which i really liked - did lots of ciders which I am a big fan of, and is naturally GF.

Did a few more places, but we did end up back at a fairly reasonable time, we were quite sensible for a change.

On the Sunday we went to some fab woods to do a bit of mushroom spotting - and were not disappointed, most I've seen in one place ever. 

 

 

20th of October - Work trip to London

Another trip to the big smoke, less stressful this time as I knew what to expect.  It was on a Monday too so didn't interfere with my plans too much.  Not much of note happened really.

 

 

 

 

23rd of October

Back in Hull, lovely lasagna was ready for me when I arrived !  Charlotte had to work on the Friday, so i pottered about a bit - we did go for a lunchtime walk though. 

Buttered lemon fish and greens for tea, and I think we watched one of the 'Escape from' films with Kurt Russell.

I was able to stay Friday night as the kids were not coming up until Saturday midday, so I got to do the Peterpan parkrun in the morning - but not with Charlotte as she went to pick up her kids.

I did another PB, but only by one second 😊 -  I was much happier with this one though, as my pace for each kilometer was more consistent.  I also said hello to the injured goose while i was there.

After getting home and having lunch I took my wife and kids to visit my parents, as we had not seen them for a while.  I accidentally charged at a Tesla charging station on the way, i didn't realize that the  'EV on the move' stations were owned by them. 

After leaving my parents I suggested we go get a pub meal, since we also hadn't spent that much time together recently too.  I had a nice steak, and my eldest went mad and dared to try a medium steak instead of well done.