Six of the best.

Thursday we were Poll Clerks for the County Council Elections. This involved leaving home at 5.45am to get to the Polling Station and set up ready for voting to begin at 7.00am. A steady flow of voters came in all day until we closed the doors at 10.00pm. After all the equipment had been packed away we were driven home. A long day but enjoyable, voters that came were in good humour. This helps the time pass more quickly.

Friday it was business as usual. Shopping followed by another session in the garden. Carrots, radishes and spring onions are now in the ground. Better late than never.

Saturday we were again up early. Invited to Essex for the day we needed to get away on time. The Sat Nav said it would be a two hour journey, what she did not know was that a tanker had shed its load on the M25 at 5.00am that morning which closed it all day. We took evasive action but so did lots of the other traffic. A huge detour failed to outflank the congestion and the journey took three and a half hours to complete. The return journey went much more according to plan.

Tired when I got up today it was decided that a ten mile run would be too far. Six miles would be a more realistic goal and then catch up later in the week. We headed out along the main road, one mile downhill then one and a half up the other side. I must have been a little under the weather as I couldn't get my heart rate down. It was between one sixty and one eighty beats per minute but went up to just over two hundred for a short while which was a little worrying. Heading across the fields we had to slow down a little and the pulse came back down. It was a nice morning for a run and there was quite a few people taking advantage of the sunshine. It was noticeable that crops were further advanced in Essex. Oil seed rape was taller and in full flower, way ahead of the same crop here. Lilac was about to flower which is about two weeks ahead of ours.