Sunday 29 March.
The clocks went forward last night to British Summer Time and it was now 8 am when we wakened. I got up and a made a cup of tea which we had in bed while I read the paper. Moira got up half an hour later and made our 'full English' breakfast. There wasn't any 'Match of the Day' due to the Premier League games being off to release players for the Internationals. Scotland play Gibraltar tonight in a European Cup Qualifier, they should win that one.
At 10 am I left for the gym, Moira stayed in to do some house work in preparation of leaving the flat clean and tidy when we depart on Wednesday. It was a lovely day, the sun was shining and the sky a deep blue as I strolled through the town to the gym. It wasn't very busy, probably a lot of people had forgotten to put their clocks forward an hour. I began with 2 laps round the perimeter carrying 2x12 kg dumbbells. I then did my light dumbbell routine for biceps and deltoids. Now I was thoroughly warmed up I used big weights today, trying to manage 12 reps a couple of times for each exercise. I did, tricep push downs, lat pull downs, bench flies, bench dumbbell presses, upright rowing on the Smith m/c, shrugs on the Smith m/c, chest press m/c, wide arm pull up frame, and leg extensions. I did 20 reps of knee raises on the hip extension frame 6 times interspersed between the other exercises. It was another good session.
I walked back to the flat in the now very warm sunshine. The pool area was very crowded at the flat, lots of kids were in swimming; they were probably on holiday for the school's Easter break. They even had a life guard wandering around the swimming area in case of accidents now it is getting busy and crowded. I had put the radio on through the iPad before I left and Moira was out on the veranda listening to it. I made a cup of coffee and joined her. We spent the day out there in the shade of the awning and it was just right not too hot and not too cold. We had our lunch there and I did the crossword ( not successfully) while listening to the music. We even had our dinner outside as, with the change in the clocks, it was still warm at our dinner time.
The TV was good tonight. After 'Countryfile' there was another in the series of canal journeys that we had watched on Channel 4 last week. It is Timothy West and Prunella Scales touring different canals in a hired river cruiser. This week it was on part of the Canal Midi in France. This was the one I cycled along a few years ago and I recognised some of the parts. It was very realistic at times, like when he keeps banging the boat into bridges and the bank or when she was offered snails and braised sheep's brains at a restaurant, she made disgusting noises after one taste. The usual response when they cook someone something is 'Oohs' and 'Ahs' and 'How Marvellous'. After that we had the next instalment of 'Poldark' which is becoming quite enjoyable.
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