The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Tuesday the 9th of Jan and today is a very different animal from yesterday. Yesterday I lost a receipt that I had been very careful (or so I thought) not to lose and as an encore I lost the light sensitive prescription glasses that I use whilst driving which although not essential are sort of necessary. Imagine my surprise and elation today then when my wife narrowly avoided stepping on them as they lay on the pavement outside our front garden. It seems hard to believe that they had lain there the best part of yesterday and all through a wet and windy night and this morning had avoided the little feet and the various sized wheels of a multitude of buggies that head every weekday in the direction of the local primary not far from us. Survive though they did without a mark or a scratch and I am very happy to be re-united with them. Another cause for satisfaction today came when I attended the local leisure centre for the second part of my gym induction. To be honest I was a little fearful about the whole business as the first part which I undertook on the previous Friday had practically shredded the muscles in my thighs and four days later they were still stiff and sore. it turned out that I need not have worried as I was guided expertly round several pieces of resistance equipment by Natalie the boss of the gym no less who showed me how everything worked and it appears that I'm much better at pulling and pushing weights about than I am at running mindlessly on the spot. All in all a much better day then than its predecessor although I still don't know how I lost that receipt. 

My human contacts on this lifting and uplifting day were my serendipitous wife and the extremely fit Natalie. My deed was to attend the second part of my induction and my thoughts were on my impending fitness programme.