Busy bee

I have been back in the UK for just over a week and I am much happier with the pace of life in a city like London than in the sleepy towns of Spain.

Last weekend, I went to the Shoreditch Music Festival with some friends, and I felt very old and conservative, which is ok with me. I certainly don't feel the need to wear mismatched clothes or dress like it's a different decade....Oh, that's called fashion? Fine by me. I have never aspired to be a trend setter. Much more my speed was seeing the Wales Orchestra perform at Royal Albert Hall that same evening as part of the BBC Proms series this summer. We got standing room only tickets, but for 5 GBP we were 10 feet from the front of the orchestra. Royal Albert Hall is beautiful and I really enjoyed the performance.

I spent several days at home this week, but I still managed to get out to Windsor for dinner with my friend John, and to London on Friday for some office time and to meet up with Vinnie and his friend Rocky for dinner at Busaba Thai in Soho. On Saturday we all went to the Greenwich Observatory to put one foot in each hemisphere at 00 00 Meridian, had a pub lunch and then into London for shopping on Regents Street and dinner at french restaurant Cafe Rouge.

Today (Sunday) I had lunch with a friend in London and then went for a 7 mile run this evening, my second such run this week! I am training for a 5.5 mile run in Wales in a few weeks time, and now that I know the distance won't be a problem, I need to work on my speed. I am still hovering around 11:30/mile. On Thursday, my run was through fields and I had to stop and ask a farmer how to cut through their property to get back to my village. This was after I got drenched in the rainshower downpour, but before my newly formed blister really started to hurt. It was an adventure!

The upcoming week will be busy. I am going to the theatre twice (Oliver! the musical and Waiting for Godot), I have a few networking meetings, social dinner plans, some planned runs, and oh yes, some professiona development and job search activities. Should be fun!