h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

then. clearly.
that was a really good trip away... lots and lots of food... copious beer and several long walks... a shorter one the day we arrived, over the fens, and with a trip to see my Dad... then a 12 mile walk the next day, over to the coast... along the coast... then a slightly odd return-route, which just by chance passed by the door of a pub I know well, since I was 14 years old... they brew their own beer... and their we got held hostage there, by a computer programmer and a teacher, then walked the remaining distance to the hotel

A friend visited on the Sunday, but got lost on the train, and ended up in a house of the Brother of the Drummer of the band the Darkness, with the drummer, moving furnature no. really. - eventually he made it to the right village/town, and indeed, ultimately the correct pub

got back last night. our trin broke down. journey took 3 hours, not 2... in the heat

Somehow I didn't sleep last night so went to the gym today, and got put through my paces by my PT.

I learned a new trick - for ages I'd been wondering about going backwards on the stair treadmill... basically walking backwards up it... so I tried... It worked... whilst it was moving, I turned round and started going backwards... then switched round and turned again, to go the right way... My PT was so impressed, he got another peronal trainer to watch... - I'm the insaine one in the gymn then did squats, balancing on the ball, running machine, leg exercises on a weight machine thing... leg pushes? I think... jumping about in the weird climbing frame thing, doing double footed kicks up the wall to head height more squats... and I finished with some stretches and some dips

this heat is ... getting too much for me though... at least the gym has air con sadly the house doesn't

according to the scales I've gained an impossible amount of weight in a few days away... - I think it'll magically vanish, as I'm guesing there is water retention at play, what with the heat, and who-knows what sort of sodium loading involved in the 'eating out' food, that being away from home entails