Thursday 25 February 2016

Update

Update

I haven't blogged for ages and feel I should start up again, so a brief resume of what has happened for the last 15 months or so. At the beginning of 2015 I got an illness that I was unable to shake off I lost getting on for two stone. It turned out to be (apparently) nothing much although it didn't seem like it at the time. The week before I returned to work, Debbie and I went away for a week which I have not done for the last 40 odd years. The chance to reflect and seek God whilst gently relaxing was pretty life changing. 2015 was overshadowed by the unexpected death of Jonathan Wren in July and getting accustomed to life without him trying to support the grieving family. I upped my running mileage around that time but my hopes of keeping up 10 miles a week regularly did not come to fruition.

On 28th December I bought a banjo having an inspiration more or less out of nowhere to start learning it, thinking some of my guitar playing skills would transfer. Maybe they do, but two months in and it's a steep learning curve, I have drastically reduced my reading and practice up to an hour a day, more if I have the time. It's a slow process. If I can work out how to post videos on this blog I will map my progress.

Watch this space.