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Gallions path and ball hunting !

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  The weather being so nice and having a free afternoon I thought I should take a walk up Gallions path and see if I could find some more stock for my eBay business. I’ve started listening to a new book which I will report on soon.  Some poor soul had broken down in his car on Wexham park lane right on the narrowest point near the point where I cross over. He’d placed the No fly tipping sign a few meters behind his car and this was incurring lots of abuse from traffic that had to avoid it last minute. I should have come home that way to check on the situation but I wanted to pop into the local shop for some supplies.  It was a good hunt today with 11 balls and only one for the junk box ! With 9 hours of exercise over the last two days I’m going to unwind this evening before going back to work tomorrow.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

Slough Town FC vs Dagenham and Redbridge FC

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 It’s Slough Town’s final match of the season against the newly minted Dagenham and Redbridge FC and the weather was glorious with even a little bit of sunburn from the late April sun.  Walking to the match as it s only 15 minutes away from my home you get a sense that it’s close by when the smell of burgers and fried onions carry on the wind. I treated my self to a cider expensive at £5.40 but I guess thst how a small club makes its money. There was a small wait to be served but it moved quickly. A novelty for football fans is the ability to take the drink outside within sight of the pitch !  Being a lunch time kick off I also treated myself to a cheese burger and chips. The price £11.40 for a cheese burger with a small portion of chips the picture is what you get.  Now on to the football it’s self, for the first half I stood behind the away goal and that’s where most of the Slough fans gathered. It was a good vibe with drums and wheels bins being drummed and chants...

Back to the gym

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  After yesterdays long walk this morning I went to the gym, started off with rowing and 3800 metres in 30 mins is good going.  On to deadlifts nothing crazy just adding 20kg then 30kg. Rows next on the machine starting with 42.5kg going up to 55kg Narrow cable rows next and again 42kg up to 50kg Then later pull downs to finish starting with 50kg and dropping down to 42.5kg  Only four sets today as I was a little fatigued after 19 miles of hiking yesterday but I kept the motivation.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

Course work, more sales and a long walk for lunch !

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 288 golf balls sold  Had a nice lay in this morning until 7am then had breakfast before settling down to some course work. I’ve been putting it off all week because it’s a long essay on how the Kaizen principle can be applied to business which means writing about different tools and methods within the kaizen process and giving examples. I managed to get through most of it, I still have Plan, Do, Check and Act to tack on to the end to make it complete.  I did nip out to drop some golf balls off at the parcel shop 16 Srixon marathon soft sold last night. It’s going well the golf ball business but I’m running low on stock so I’m hoping lots are out tomorrow so I can gather some more stock for sales.  After writing out most of my answer with examples I decided to get out for a walk, I wanted to push a bit further today so set out for Savill garden in Windsor great park, it’s 8.5 miles walking from the flat and I had a nice lunch of haddock and chips with mint mushy peas...

The Navy Lark

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  When anyone thinks of British comedy they go straight to Monty Python, The Two Ronnies, Dads Army or a host of other comedy shows, but they all owe their existence to The Navy Lark.  In the late 50’s and early 60’s Tv’s were expensive to even rent never mind own, so lots of families would listen to the radio instead. The BBC were the only real radio stations so that was the option. Luckily the BBC invested heavily in its programming and bought classics like ‘The Goon Show’ that lunched Peter Sellers to be a household name. The other light comedy on the BBC was ‘The Navy Lark’ it's available on aubible or even for free on you tube and it's the root of that 70’s 80’s and 90’s comedy you can hear it in the shows especially Monty Pyton.  The crew of a fictional Royal Navy frigate find themselves in lot of tricky situations mainly because of the enept crew and swindling Mr Pertwee. Give them a listen and see how much of latter shows you can spot in the writing and performanc...

Walking day

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 Golf balls sold 226  The weather was good so it was an out for a walk, I had to drop off some Taylormade Distance golf balls at the parcel shop and then it was up Gallions path. It was a nice dry walk but there aren’t many mid week golfers so it was only 5 golf balls today and I’m still missing my elusive Taylormade tour response golf ball for my set.  It’s been a nice day and it was good to get some sunshine and feel the warmth. It’s home for some rest before work tomorrow.  Have fun stay safe 👍🏼

Gym day

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 Golf balls sold 204  It back to the gym today and it was straight on to the cross trainer intervals level 14. Not my highest pace but I got through 30 mins. 370 callores and 1.51km.  It was on to tri push down macystarting with 42kg and going up to 57kg. Cable machine next and rope pull downs 16kg up to 28kg. Overhead pulls next and starting with 20kg up to 28kg. Cable bar pull down 16kg up to 28kg. French press to finish starting with 17.5kg down to 15kg. It was a good session I need to keep it going 🤔 Have fun stay safe 👍🏼