Couch to 5k

I have started my Couch to 5k plan. It’s been two weeks now and I am loving it. The app I’m using is by Active.com and is brilliant. The trainer voice I’m using is the zombie one and it’s really funny. But aside from that the plan is really easy to follow. Some days are a bit of a slog but I’m really enjoying it. I think the environment I’m running in is also a bonus. It’s very pretty and quiet. I love being alone on my run.

I didn’t invest in a proper pair of trainers until the second week just in case I didn’t enjoy it. But I found that I was finishing each run and my toes were either numb or had pins & needles sensation. So obviously that wasn’t ideal. I went along to Up & Running local shop and the lady I spoke with there was brilliant and gave me advise on the best shoes to wear. Thanks to my flat feet I have over pronation so I am now the proud owner of a pair of Brooks runners.

 

Last day

This is a picture of Esme and me on our last appointment at Alternative Arts tattoo shop. Esme is going to a new shop next month with one of the other tattooists at Alternative Arts. I think it’s been about 2 years I’ve been going pretty much every month to see her to get my ink done. Can’t wait to see the new place. 🙂

Jojo doing her cute thing

This is Jojo who is the cutest most adorable greyhound

Playing with B&W

Thought I’d play with some of the filters on the camera.

Cinema trip

Whoop whoop we’re off to see Logan at the cinema. I haven’t been to the cinema in ages. I love going to the cinema especially to watch one of the Comic inspired films

New glasses arrived

Whoop! My new glasses have arrived in time for my night shift. I love them. They are definitely a stronger prescription, I cannot read close up anymore with them on which is what the optician warned me about.

What a weekend!

Two nights and so bloody busy. No hospital beds available and the patients just kept coming in. It was like that little plastic tile game kids play where you have to move one tile at a time to make the whole picture.

New glasses

My try at home selection arrived from Cubitts has arrived. They’re all so gorgeous. But I can only buy one pair. Here are some photos I took of me wearing them.

This is the box they arrived in. The packaging is lovely.

These next ones are my favourites. They are called Agar with the agate coloured frame. They have 9 different colours of this frame available at Cubitts.

These following glasses are called the Bidborough with the agate coloured frame. They have 10 different colour of frames to choose from. They’re quite heavy but I noticed on the Cubitts website the Bidborough sunglasses with the black frame was very cool looking.

These next ones are the Wollstonecraft frames and the amber coloured frame. There is a choice of 4 colours to choose from at Cubitts.

Finally these are the also the Bidborough glasses with the quartz frame. I was torn between these and the Agar frames.

Save Our NHS march

I was in London today for the Save Our NHS march. I went on my own as a) nobody at work had heard about it and were busy and b) I prefer to do these kinds of things on my own. 🙂

So it was my first weekend off in over a month and I was really looking forward to going to London. I’ve always liked going there and I did love living there many years ago. So I was quite excited on the train. The great thing about how I look is how it dissuades most people from either sitting next to me or speaking to me. I view this as a positive 🙂 The dreads, facial piercings and the tattoos definitely keep most at arms length.

So I arrived at Euston and found hundreds of people gathering for the march. I mean hundreds. So I picked up with the CND crowd, they had cool placards.

There was a lady handing out old style surgical masks with a hands off our NHS message printed on the front. When I was walking along with the mask on some guy jumped out in front of me and took my photo. Weird huh?

At the end of the march I saw this cool drumming group and there was this older lady who was dancing along to them. She was really shaking her money maker. Really cool lady.

It was a pretty cool day. My feet were killing by the end of the day. But I had such a great time.