I may not have been blogging much lately, but I haven't been doing much proper writing either. Facebooks, emails, phone calls and the like seem to have distracted me. It was nice though during one bout of procrastinating offline, to come across a name I recognised.

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I'd picked up a new free local newspaper called The Bright Times in the supermarket when whose name should I see on the front but Liz Hayden-Jones. It's great to see writelinkers' names and work in print as well as online.

While out shopping, we also picked up a new saddle and pump for my bike. It's the first time I've taken my bike out with my five year old (I need it now to keep up with him!)and it was fantastic fun! I'd forgotten how much more interesting proper cycling is to the gym exercise bike. Even better, the bursitis in my hip doesn't seem to have been aggravated by it. (I'm not sure if that's simply because it was so flat and we weren't out for long or because being out with my son I didn't feel the need to push myself as I do in the gym.) Now I'm not jogging any more, I may have to take to exploring the canal by bike instead.

Anyway, today was our actual wedding anniversary. It will not be remembered as a grand occasion, particularly not by him. My husband was off work last week with pharyngitis. This was getting better with antibiotics, then today he started suffering with a similar pain (ok, agony apparently!) to that he had last time they thought he had gall/kidney stones. (I can't remember which it was the doctor thought he had and by the time the NHS got round to scanning him there was no sign of anything left to confirm what had caused the pain.) Anyway, touch wood, he's feeling better now, so fingers crossed it was just something he ate and that it's all over now. ;-)