Been a busy week, I have been out drinking with friends the last 2 nights so while that has been good it is a little exhausting.. What’s more tonight I am heading out to Sky camp, so heading directly to camp from work.
Now I have been looking forward to Sky camp for a while now, as it is the sort of competition camp that has lots of opportunities for being brilliantly mad.

The rules for Sky camp for the Explorer Scouts are quite simple.. Working as a team you have 3 trips from the car park to your camping area, where you must construct a shelter that is at least 0.5 meters off the ground (and not exceeding 3).  You will spend the afternoon, evening, and sleep in the shelter. You will cook a 3 course dinner.
Extra points are awarded to creativity and style.  There will be several challenges set during the day.

What makes this more fun is that there is a leaders competition.. The only changes to the rules are..
Only 1 trip from the car park to your site, and you must cook on an open fire.

Which is why I am currently sat on a rush hour tube with 2 huge very heavy holdalls, which contain the following additional bits of kit.
1) My climbing kit
2) A roll of wallpaper
3) A doorbell
4) Enough tools to be able to make it work..
5) A mirror ball (with motor)
6) 2 hammocks
7) A set of flying ducks (pictures)

Based on that and the other stuff I have with me, I think that it will very homely.. and jolly good fun..

1) On the train today out for drinks with old work people so that means I’m on the train.. which gives me an excuse to wear my new bowler hat.. 🙂
2) Nearly got a seat on the train, but decided that given I was looking like a smart city gentleman, in a hat and umbrella, I would act like one and  offered it to the lady behind me.

So I’ve missed another day, and this post is late, but hey not beating myself up about that.

Monday I was frustrated as I was trying to sort out kit for this weekend’s camping trip, and after ages clambering around in the loft my back was aching and there were several things that I just couldn’t find..

So Tuesday’s big happyness was finding them.  Quite how I managed to perchance onto one of them I have no idea as I had given up on finding that.  Just goes to show, maintain a positive attitude.

Not sure that I can remember anything else to record, so will leave it at that.  But I found stuff that I was sure that had been lost.
I also found H’s hat on Monday so even that day wasn’t a complete write off..

Only one post for the weekend, so we will have to see what I remember.

1) Curry for dinner, I’ve not had curry in ages..
2) An afternoon nap, which has hopefully helped beat my cold.
3) Finishing pruning the lavender, makes the garden look so much more tidy.
4) Getting to the dump, been meaning to do that for ages.
5) Some time catching up with people.

Missed a few days of recording the happyness in my day, this has mostly been caused by a bit of a head cold..

Anyway there has been some good from the last few days..
1) Being able to work from home.. saved me battling into the office on Tuesday when I felt miserable.
2) Our Moo getting married..
3) A short lunchtime walk in the city in the sunshine.
4) Getting a seat on both of today’s train journeys.
5) Sinex nasal spray for letting me be able to breathe.

1) Meeting friends in Camden, I’ve not been out to Camden on a very long time.  So it was a good excuse to goth up a bit. Although it was a bit disconcerting to be one of the only goths in Camden.
2) Taking a newbie goth into the New Rock shop.. there was squeeing and everything..
3) Buying a new bowler hat, so that I can look dapper on my way to work.  On the occasions that I’m not on the bike.

1) Listening to the rain first thing in the morning, and turning the alarm clock off, and deciding to have a lie in and be lazy..
2) An afternoon nap, I’ve a tohch of a cold, so it was a bit more necessary than I would like, but it was still very nice.
3) Out at a friend’s 60th, and random conversations about bicycles, bond movies, and stuff.. It was ni e to be out and a little social.

1) Got a seat on the train, really wasn’t expecting that..
2) Pizza for lunch, even better it was paid for by work.
3) Popping out for a quick pint with people from work, got to chat to a few and learn a bit more, which was good.
4) We had a chap fitting blinds in the office this week.  He cut off the end of the bag to drill through and use as a dust catcher.. I thought that was genius.

1) Really enjoyed completing the XKCD survey.. https://xkcd.com/1572/ it will be really interesting to see the resulting datasets eventually.
2) Erm..
3) Bugger can’t think of anything today, it’s not been a bad day, I’ve been busy at work, had a meeting that was a whole heap less disastrous than I expected, which was good but not really happy.  So I’m a bit stuck for ideas..  Oh well.. tomorrow is another day, and I suspect that will be better as I have pizza and drinks after work to look forward to.

1) Had a puncture this morning, which is frustrating, what makes it a happy moment, is that I got to fix it while I stood in a small pocket of warm sunshine, which given it was a chilly morning, and if I had punctured yesterday it would have been in the rain.
2) Another dry ride home over wet roads having missed more heavy rain, got to see another rainbow.
3) As of today I’ve been at my new job* for 6mths and 2 days.. Which makes it the longest I have held a job in the last 3 years.

* I guess that means that if isn’t all that new anymore.