On tenterhooks

Lily is potty training. I took her, in the trailer, to highfields playground
with Charlie running behind. She had a great morning and even managed the
'big kids swing'. A flock of Geese flew over and she nonchalently states
'Geese' as she continued filling the tube with sand. Every other kid was
clamouring for ice-cream from the van, Lily doesn't know what ice cream is
:-) 3 Visits to the toilet and no accidents, best morning for her in a week
I think.
Tender or Tenterhooks? I thought tender hooks were what you hang meat on,
as in tenderising. Tenterhooks are what you stretch a canvas on and I
believe this is the correct phrase to describe psychological tension, makes
sense. Though as a child I always knew it as tender hooks.

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Lovely Peak

Time in the Peak recently. Lots of anticlockwise circuits usually featuring
Crich, Beeley Moor and Winster. But today taking in the Monyash Cafe for the
first time this year. 90 miles and 9000ft of glorious sunshine, heather and
gritstone. Next to no wind and that sublime hum of an inch of rubber on
tarmac.
Took the family around potential new places to live between Ilkeston and
Belper. Gateway to the Peak! And we dropped in on the Windmill at Heage.
Not a fan of Kilburn, but Horsley, Denby, Smalley, Stanley, Brackley Gate
and Heage all get the thumbs up. Just a case of finding the right house now
over the next couple of years.

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Long live the new life

I'm feeling like I've really landed on my feet in the new position.  A city centre workplace is a very strange concept for me, but so far I can only see perks.  Yesterday I snapped up a bargain in TK Max and today I went for a 4 mile run down the canal.  The offices have a great shower and my 1 hour lunch break has left me time to write this. It is early days as far, as the work itself goes, this being day 5, but early signs look very promising, and we're just in a bug fixing phase at the moment!  Dual monitors, big desk, cool office space, great colleagues (so far!). There is even one nutter like me, who's into endurance stuff; he swam the Channel a couple of years ago. Happy days...

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