Sunday 10 May - Bike Ride with Han

Again a late night so not up until after midday. Deb had gone to the allotment for a few hours and left the kids to their own devices. We ate dinner, roast pork, parsnips, cauliflower, roast potatoes and crackling followed by profiteroles and fresh cream, on the patio and afterward I suggested that we go for a cycle ride to burn off some of these calories. Only Han was up for it, Nat wanted to read the Warhammer 40,000 codices I'd downloaded for him and Deb went and hid in the attic until we gave up searching for her.

So off we went, under the underpass and down to the pathway that would take us to the canal. Weather wise it was a lovely day and so the canal and the surrounding areas were full of families, walking, cycling or walking their dogs or doing all of the above. We crossed packhorse bridge, joined the canal and headed towards town. As we left the canal near the sports field and headed off down the new nature trail. On our way we saw Brandon, who plays rugby with Nat and who lives nearby. When we got to the end of the trail we climbed the steps up to the Great Central Way and cycled further toward town. Han was beginning to get tied, even though I'm the one with the new hip and a duff one that still needs to be replaced, so we eventually stopped and started back. We didn't retrace our steps fully; we cut off the GCW and went down to the River Soar and followed this until we came out near Riverside School. We then cut through to Narbro Rd Sth and cycled home. I went back to bed for a couple of hours as I'm at work tonight.

I'm at work writing this, it's 05:34 and I finish in just under 2 hours.