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Since it's almost spring, I thought I would update my Livejournal.
I've just had a relaxing weekend. I printed some photographs I took a few weeks ago of my parents and myself with their rapidly growing puppy Westie. Actually, I think she's fully grown now. She's about twice as big as she was when I saw her previously a few months ago. Her hair was rather long at the photo session, but I gather she's had it cut now.
Besides catching up with my flat cleaning, I saw two films - Brokeback Mountain (good photography) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (a DVD). I also went to Aberlady Bay to do conservation yesterday - we were cutting down and digging up the roots of sea buckthorn. This is a plant which was introduced about the end of the second world war to stabilise the sand dunes, but it spreads prolifically. Conservation groups therefore go to the site regularly to try to control it. It is a very picturesque area. The work was slow because of the large number of lengthy roots.
I've started swimming on occasional lunchtimes and going to the gym. At the gym I've been using the exercise machines - bike, crosstrainer, stepper etc. Also, I've been trying the weight machines, where you usually sit and move your arms/legs to lift a variable weight. I don't know that it has reduced my weight much, though. I didn't get to the swimming pool or gym last week because of other priorities, but I will probably get back to them from the middle of this week.
Well, that completes this update.
I've just had a relaxing weekend. I printed some photographs I took a few weeks ago of my parents and myself with their rapidly growing puppy Westie. Actually, I think she's fully grown now. She's about twice as big as she was when I saw her previously a few months ago. Her hair was rather long at the photo session, but I gather she's had it cut now.
Besides catching up with my flat cleaning, I saw two films - Brokeback Mountain (good photography) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (a DVD). I also went to Aberlady Bay to do conservation yesterday - we were cutting down and digging up the roots of sea buckthorn. This is a plant which was introduced about the end of the second world war to stabilise the sand dunes, but it spreads prolifically. Conservation groups therefore go to the site regularly to try to control it. It is a very picturesque area. The work was slow because of the large number of lengthy roots.
I've started swimming on occasional lunchtimes and going to the gym. At the gym I've been using the exercise machines - bike, crosstrainer, stepper etc. Also, I've been trying the weight machines, where you usually sit and move your arms/legs to lift a variable weight. I don't know that it has reduced my weight much, though. I didn't get to the swimming pool or gym last week because of other priorities, but I will probably get back to them from the middle of this week.
Well, that completes this update.