This week saw the start of 2014, so HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It was also back to work after my Christmas leave, but with the schools and colleges being closed, the bus journeys this week have been short! Although Monday and Tuesday it was a Saturday service which meant an extra couple of miles on an already lengthy run.
The weather has been bad this week. I am not a fan of Coventry, but frankly, having seen the conditions that elsewhere has suffered, I am quite pleased that I am in the centre of the country. The worst we really have seen are a few slightly flooded roads, a few battered fences and some downed wheelie bins.
Friday night I felt like a bit of a gamble. I have an online account with William Hill and have done for some years. I am useless with the horses and football too, but I do like the slot machines (or one armed bandits as we used to call them). I managed to turn my original £50 stake into over £2000! You could have knocked me down with a feather.
Unfortunately, never being one to be able to stop whilst I am ahead, I carried on playing and ended up withdrawing 'just' £1200, still, it all adds to the car fund.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be the grand old age of 43, I have no idea what presents, if any, I am going to get.
I still have over a month before I receive my ACCA exam results, it seems so long since I sat them.
Another weekend in Birmingham, another colour in the hotel.
This weekend was the last weekend of my ACCA tuition for this sitting. This time I was on the 6th floor of the hotel and the colour is green! You can't really tell from this photo, but the bed was massive.
And I had some great views over the city.
But boy, did it rain. I had to go out to pick up an order from New Look which was about half a mile away from the hotel. These were my jeans when I got back. I actually struggled to take them off, they seemed to have stuck themselves to my calves.
I managed to dry my jeans out for today, but my trainers were still wet.
Today was the Birmingham Half Marathon which made getting from the hotel to college a bit of a challenge as most of the roads and crossings had been cordoned off, we even had to tell the security person that we were going to college before we were allowed past the barrier and down the alley way.
This was the square in front of the library before the majority of the runners arrived
This was at lunchtime
Well done to everyone who took part.
I also discovered this week that someone who unfriended me a year ago on facebook is still looking at my profile. How do I know? Because they accidentally caught the 'add friend' button whilst they were doing so, they immediately cancelled the request but the notification was sent to my phone. If someone is going to stalk me, they need to be a bit more subtle about it!
