I'd signed up to 2 meet ups today, the first was a picnic in new farm park, the second was seeing a band at the story bridge hotel

It was a gorgeous day so I decided to walk the 2 miles or so round to new farm, stopping at Coles to buy carrots, humous, snacks etc. There was around 20 people there - none of whom I'd met before, many of whom were Brits! One of them even used to run a pub round the corner from my Marylebone office!

It was soon 2pm and time to head to the story bridge pub. It's right opposite my flat, has bands on on a Sunday and a reputation for being quite wild! However this meet up group was mainly 50+, again I was the only one that wasnt divorced & didn't have any grandkids! Luckily Carolines friend Clare (now my friend Clare!) came and rescued me & we had a good catch up

On the way home Pam called me. I'm off to Sydney on Friday to see her for another wknd of eating, drinking, shopping etc, or so I thought....turns out she's forgot she was doing the city to surf run, a run from the city centre round the coast to bondai beach. Thinking it would be a nice walk and only 10km I said to sign me up, it would be tough, I haven't been to the gym in forever and never even done a 5km run before - but that's why I'm here, to have new experiences & challenge myself.....anyway turns out its 14km and includes a steep hill! Best get training so before dinner I ran down to the southbank and back, just under 5miles / 8km so I know I'll hopefully make it half way round!!