Just now I was Triride’ing to Faro airport on a main road in Portugal…
Two lanes and a hard shoulder.

I’m in the hard shoulder at this point..
A few cars have just passed me and there are 3 in the fast lane, say doing 40mph. They are say 20 meters ahead of me.
Suddenly.. an estate car RAMS into the back of the rear of the last of the 3 cars.
This bloke must have been doing at least 65mph.
What an impact..

The car he hits gets shunted forward at high speed yet just avoids missing the car in front.

CLEARLY the fella in the estate was looking at me ( well not often round here do you cop a bloke in a wheelchair doing 30mph?) and he’s so impressed he’s stopped looking in front of him for quite a while. He wasn’t even braking… he hit the car in front at high speed. I saw his bonnet crumple almost entirely.

If he hadn’t hit him square on one/ both of them would have probably shot into my path.

That’s another life, I’d say.

Never far away from certain death, me.
😳💦

Had a party last week- for my birthday.
Lots of people came.
It was brilliant to see so many totally cracking people in the same place ( mine ).

Thanks to everyone who came!
And to Leighton for doing the barbecue.
I found him on the internet. …

It would have been 30 years since I did a certain thing… today.
Or was it tomorrow?
You know I’ve never remembered which date it was.
😂

Anyway, it’s not.

Gawd if i could live my life again, I’d not have done it.
That’s for sure.
🤷

My God I’m doing some great arm exercises.
If you haven’t seen these ( and you probably haven’t) then you should get one.
Impossible to injure yourself ( it weighs less than a kilogram ) , portable, use anywhere ( though people might stare at you and wonder what on earth you are doing ) .. if you wear a wrist weight as well – I use a kilo one on each wrist… well if you can do a solid hour of it ( whilst watching tv/ YouTube/ listening to a podcast or something… then your arms will indeed suffer.
Always enjoyed the burn, i have to say.

This is from ALI EXPRESS btw… gotta say, I do love that site.

Aside from that I Went to see this very clever play this weekend.
In it this lady ( aided and abetted by her new boyfriend ) lied and swindled her way through the course of a good décade to persecute her ex husband and live a life that she couldn’t afford. She lied to banks, to mortgage companies, to her employers, to her friends and family, and with a straight face to a string of Judges in several Court appearances. Well dodgy character..

And then at the end, her boyfriend, knowing all he did about her … asked her to marry him.
The final act was so chilling. He was so haplessly cheerful that she had said yes, but then the camera zoomed in on her face and you just knew what a terrible mistake this man was making.
You just wanted to shout out NOOOOOOO to warn him. But you can’t… it’s just fiction and you’re in a theatre.

Very powerful.

And I’m also getting my sh** together with dating. Some lucky lady might soon snag me. 🤷😂

Thanks to Leighton and Bev for hosting myself and Gina GS at theirs for a BBQ! Leighton puts on a good grill, fair do’s.

We went there in the Mean Machine van.
It’s a process to use the thing, but is useful.
Of course I’m not used to going out and not being allowed to drink anything alcoholic. Very weird.
Not that I actually drink that much these days tbh. The more exercise I do, the less alcohol I even feel inclined to drink, and I’m doing a fair bit atm.

Saw an exceptional play – The Fifth Step the other week ( with my Friendo Helen ) and I saw a play ( for the 3rd time in 5 years – rarely seen anything more than once .. ) called Til the Stars come Down. Just such a good play. Go n see it.

I’ve persuaded my refugee buddy to lose weight… resorted to a straightforward lecture on the negative aspects of being 130kg when you’re 5 foot 6. Anyway, it’s working and he’s lost a couple of stone in a couple of months.

If you want a lecture about being fat, do message me. I’m not shy, nor ‘ body positive’.