Brightwater Park Run

Brightwater parkrun results for event #572. Your time was 00:35:40.Congratulations on completing your 72nd parkrun and your 1st at Brightwater parkrun today. You finished in 266th place out of a field of 344 parkrunners. You were the 149th male and came 14th in your age category VM60-64.We have set this as your PB.

Aunty Margaret 100 Birthday Party

Phoebe and Jemma and I stayed over night at Graham and Mels and then attended the Party. 

Good afternoon all and happy Birthday aunty marg. 

I understand it's customary to reach back and remember key moments in the intersection between my life and the Birthday girls life 

It's these stories that knit us together with a shared family history 

however my memory is crap and as you know Margaret's memory is the keeper of the family story so I should just defer to her.  

In the mean time I've referred to my brothers for memory assistance. 

Three memories. All of which highlight Margaret's wonderful hospitality. 

1 CANBERRA 

The first is from when I was very young. We spent a night or so in her house in Canberra. Following advice from Lewis it was apparently so Henry could be born. I recall aunty marg getting us turning boiled eggs over and with great hilarity claiming they were empty. 

2 DADS DEATH

The next is a thank you to her and uncle Eric for the huge support 50 years ago in 1976 after my dad died when we stayed in her families beds At her house. And I learned recently that Andrew stayed over night with Dads body. Shows that her spirit flowed to her children. 

3 NOW FISH CHIPS

The third item is much more recent where Phoebe Jemma, myself and my dog Magnus have visited and been hosted by aunty marg at Penny's Sea food where there's lots of hilarity and they would point out the special Margaret ramp for her wheelie walker.

PHOTOS

As you are surrounded by photos we are giving you a card featuring my brothers and I and their families.

And a present of a photo frame with mummy brothers and I.

SOCIAL SUPPORT PERSON

We had a great "speech" from a person who drives her around. 

She's got a great bond with her support workers.  

Maroochydore Dawn

Fri night family Maroochydore

DIET

Skipped both breakfast and lunch so I guess about 20+ hr fast. 

Then had fish, chips, beer, wine, cheesecake. Did not sleep well. 

Erg #1

Well it's erg time again. The grammarians are trying a different process for selecting crews this year that is only partially influenced by erg times.  Other things like age are part of it. It's unlikely that my erg time will make any difference to whatever crew I end up in but I am still using it as motivation for exercise. 

This afternoon was my first erg in ages so my main objective was to just do 5km and not stop and not worry about the time.  Not stopping is a very important thing.  Can not let the brain ever get the idea that one can stop while rowing just because one's body is crying "stop".

0.5% Pasito

One of the side effects of this dieting thing is to look at the back of the label. As I read it, Pasito has 0.5% passionfruit and therefore 99.5% not passionfruit.  

One may ask how did I come so close to a bottle of Pasito and to clear my name, its on the lunch table at work.

Did not drink any!

Interesting to note that sugar is turf 2nd ingredient which i believe it is the second most common. Then we've got the 0.5% passionfruit followed by the various artificial additives. Presumably all in very small quantities and yet even with such small percentage they have an effect. 

Dinner

SATURDAY 11 APRIL 

DINNER

We'd felt tired during the day.  Possibly early rise, park run and some St Lucia moving. 

Snooze on the couches. 

We'd discussed a BBQ for dinner with sausages Phoebe had bought earlier. 

I went shopping for:

-Halumi 

-Tomatoes 

-Cucumber 

-Tin beetroot 

-Iceberg 

-Red wine

Mostly no carb but the wine included as a trade off between mental and physical health. 

She carried it down to the table in the front yard. It was very relaxing.