Tuesday 5th Jan

I got up and started on with internet stuff and a coffee whilst ant was still in bed, checked the emails, nice one from mum, did the cafe and then the blog. Ant came down and we had coffee and chat then got ready for David coming round to do some washing. We sat and read for about an hour then i got a bit fed up of waiting and decided to give him a phone. It turned out it was Mark who was coming and he would be here lunch time. I set to and made a bit of lunch, kippers on toast, not too nice, and Mark arrived in the middle of it. I sat and chatted to him for a bit and then headed off to the gym.
What a sweaty mess i was by the end of it, i really pushed myself hard, half an hours jogging, fifteen on the bike, fifteen on the cross trainer and half an hour fast walking. The gym was quite busy for a change with a lot of very pretty well built french men posturing to each other to better show off their perfect physiques, and me in the background muttering under my breath and breathing heavily, due to the exercise! I was home before four and i sat and chatted to ant for a while then went online to book our train tickets to Paris for our trip to Aus, only the internal flights to book now. Then we sorted out the weighing scales, the batteries had gone, and had a weigh session, i was not as bad as i thought i would be but still much worse than i want to be.

Ant and i had a long online session in the evening looking at housing in the Adelaide area, rental, buying and building, and he managed to keep his interest for quite a long time. I made a nice bolognaise for dinner which we had with some ravioli. By eleven in the evening ant was struggling to maintain interest in Australian property and we decided to head off to bed, another day done and closer to the 24th.