I have also gotten really far behind on my reading, with my target of 14 books now being impossible to achieve with my current total at 4 with 3 other books being nearly completed as I dislike sticking to just one book and usually have at least one non fiction book being read at any one time alongside fiction.

Having a great team that are really friendly too also helps! Work is going really well and we have had some extremely busy times recently with the heat drawing people out! Lately, I have had a lot of friendly customers which is a nice change and helps the shifts go smoothly. I spent a couple of hours the other day updating all my mods on Euro Truck which was…fun, finally got the load order right and am now ready to continue my trucking across Europe once more!

I have also been spending more time than I should on the PC and Xbox with my flavours of the month currently being Red Dead Redemption 2, Alien Isolation, Witcher 3, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 which are excellent games and I highly recommend them all! (and no, I am not paid to promote them!).

My writing has sadly taken a back seat in recent times as evidenced by this post, now I am hoping to change that and get a good writing session in today after I post this. It may not be as quick as riding but it gets us there and gives us some exercise at the same time. We walk a lot though which I am sure helps. We used to ride often before Tracey’s surgery five years ago but have not ridden since, we have a few nice routes we want to try but it all starts with a quick ride around the block to blow off the cobwebs and make sure the bikes are good to go so to speak and see how we get on. I think the problem is as I have lost so much weight now, it is getting harder to lose the last bit I want to, though now summer is officially here (finally), we can think about getting the bikes out. I have been with Slimming World since January 2018 and have managed to lose a little over four and a half stone since then, but these last six months have been hard and I have only been scraping by with half a pound gains or losses each week. Losing Tracey’s dad suddenly was unexpected and knocked us quite a bit, he was a kind man who loved his family and his books and always had an eye for a bargain! Where has this year gone? With the sudden loss of my father in law earlier this year which hit us hard and my ongoing struggle with weight loss it has been a rough start.

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