Exercise!
I hadn't expected to be going swimming again after last Monday as it makes Sean feel dizzy. However, while we were there, he investigated the gym and when we woke up early on Friday morning, Sean bounced out of bed and declared that he wanted to go running.
As the gym is by the pool, this works out very well as I am as disinclined to run as Sean is to swim. We went swimming / running on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then Sean thought he had better have yesterday off for his muscles to recuperate. We went again today (we are off work to celebrate the Australian dead).
In general as we get up unpleasantly early anyway we are going to try swimming / running before Sean leaves for Mount Druitt. We'll let you know how this goes...
In addition to all this swimming, last week I rearranged my working week so that I could take 2 hours out to go dancing on Thursday. There is a dance company near the theatre where we went to see the History Boys (up by the harbour bridge). They run about 5 classes every day including jazz, hip-hop, ballet, tap and various other modern dance. I went to a beginners jazz class. I did a bit of dancing when I was at school and was taken aback by how hard this class was. I will not be attempting an intermediate one. The class was really good fun and I'm definitely going to go back next week.
Last Saturday we walked over to Kings Cross to visit a Sydney farmers market. In particular we thought we might buy some pork sausages: they are considered a "speciality" sausage here, the sausages you find in a supermarket are all beef. Excluding some exciting looking Turkish pancakes, the market was small and a big disappointment. Still we then went and had lunch (mixed barbecued seafood) overlooking the river at The Rocks.
The other thing I have been doing in addition to exercise is eating. Inspired by this fantastic cake blog by Chockylit I have started a smoothie blog. I had originally thought I might try and follow some recipes and make some cakes but I don't really have time. Smoothies are very easy to make and form the basis of my diet while Sean is at work. If you want to have a look, you can find my blog here http://milkshakesandsmoothies.blogspot.com/.
I hadn't expected to be going swimming again after last Monday as it makes Sean feel dizzy. However, while we were there, he investigated the gym and when we woke up early on Friday morning, Sean bounced out of bed and declared that he wanted to go running.
As the gym is by the pool, this works out very well as I am as disinclined to run as Sean is to swim. We went swimming / running on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then Sean thought he had better have yesterday off for his muscles to recuperate. We went again today (we are off work to celebrate the Australian dead).
In general as we get up unpleasantly early anyway we are going to try swimming / running before Sean leaves for Mount Druitt. We'll let you know how this goes...
In addition to all this swimming, last week I rearranged my working week so that I could take 2 hours out to go dancing on Thursday. There is a dance company near the theatre where we went to see the History Boys (up by the harbour bridge). They run about 5 classes every day including jazz, hip-hop, ballet, tap and various other modern dance. I went to a beginners jazz class. I did a bit of dancing when I was at school and was taken aback by how hard this class was. I will not be attempting an intermediate one. The class was really good fun and I'm definitely going to go back next week.
Last Saturday we walked over to Kings Cross to visit a Sydney farmers market. In particular we thought we might buy some pork sausages: they are considered a "speciality" sausage here, the sausages you find in a supermarket are all beef. Excluding some exciting looking Turkish pancakes, the market was small and a big disappointment. Still we then went and had lunch (mixed barbecued seafood) overlooking the river at The Rocks.
The other thing I have been doing in addition to exercise is eating. Inspired by this fantastic cake blog by Chockylit I have started a smoothie blog. I had originally thought I might try and follow some recipes and make some cakes but I don't really have time. Smoothies are very easy to make and form the basis of my diet while Sean is at work. If you want to have a look, you can find my blog here http://milkshakesandsmoothies.blogspot.com/.
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