Got myself a cheap spin bike to do some exercise indoors. My knees play up if I run too much, and to be honest, I got fed up running in the four months of rain that passes for winter. So I got this to supplement running, was easy to assemble and seems to work pretty well.

Yesterday a very small bit of plastic that connected the plunger to the seal broke in my loo cistern, meaning the water wouldn’t shut off. I couldn’t repair it myself so got a plumber out. He had to remove the whole loo, replace the filling system and the pipe and put it all back together again. One of the problems with these plastic ones is you can’t just replace a part. Anyway, I found out he lives just over the back of me and was a nice chap, so it’s good to know a decent plumber. So for the sake of about 1 mm of plastic I spent nearly 50 quid. Sigh.
PS – no matter how clean your house the inside of your cistern always looks as though you live in a crack den.

At the hockey last night (which we won 7-3, go Devils!) I  saw that Christian Payne, aka [url=http://documentally.com/]Documentally[/url], was after a B&B recommendation in Cardiff. I offered to put him up, so he turned up when I got back. We drank tea, had a chat about social media, and running. Then this morning I took him for a muddy run along the canal. He gave me a bottle of wine, thanks Christian.

or somewhere else, I didn’t check

When we moved into our new home the first thing we did was put up new bookshelves. As much as I like digital stuff, it’s having books up that makes it feel like home