beanz's knitting and walking blog

There's a saying that the Pirates are 'not a knitting club' so thats alright, I am not a pirate. On Sunday I went to a knitting ...

I had an appointment at the hospital this week with the orthopaedic people. Met a very pleasant young registrar who asked all the right ques...

I have been trying to get to the gym in the week and swim for some time. At last I made it for a short swim tonight - it was a bit crowded :...

It was the Kedleston Cancer Research Run 10k today, and I had I offered to marshall. It is a tough course - all off road, much on grass and ...

The Vitruvian Long Distance Triathlon seems to be the Pirates end of term party. As it takes place at Rutland Water, not too far from home I...

As usual its nearly back to work time and I don't know where the time has gone. Although I have completed some of the things I wanted t...

Monday Cycled a couple of miles in the morning - getting the hang of the gears now. Need to up the miles! And I tried out Body Pump at the g...

I'm not quite sure why I haven't posted since coming back from holiday, but life has been busy. It was a good holiday - good hotel w...

Tomorrow MrBeanz and I go on holiday, leaving the younger beanzes at home alone ( well they are 18, 18 and 22). As we are going to Norfolk w...

I went to see a different phyzz today. She examined my knee thoroughly and asked lots of questions. There is nothing seriously wrong - no me...

After running 6 miles last Sunday and going to the gym on Monday it all went downhill. The gym programme on Monday evening left me very stif...

Thursday 3 rd July Left Derby in pouring rain. Arrived in Granada to a hot evening, with a breeze which took the edge off the heat. A...

School hasn't quite finished but I am off on a trip. I am going to an astronomy education conference in Granada - and I am quite excited...

After last week's six miler we went out for a belated birthday lunch. Travelling in MrBeanz's Honda Civic proved to be very painful....

I managed a run on Tuesday morning, short but trying to run a bit quicker on the R bits. Now its Sunday morning and its long run day - up to...

Another week has passed and I have manged to run almost every other day. Which is good - including 5 miles last Sunday and another 5 miles t...

Two weeks since I blogged - not sure where it went. I gardened at half term. As usual I suffered the next day or two - knee didn't like ...

I went out on Monday morning and it was fine. On Tuesday I was stiff from cutting the very long grass with the flymo. On Wednesday I went ou...

Maybe risky to post that title on Sunday morning but it is. On Friday evening I invited some friends over for pasta. Some were running the ...

The first early plod before work for ages. And I enjoyed it and didn't stop to walk coming up the hill at the end. So pretty pleased. I ...