Day 23 and 24: Fabulous - and my lottery win :-)

[freezingiceblue]

Day 23 was work. That went pretty well. I met up with one of the new people joining my division. She will turn out to be an excellent choice. Did plenty of other things at work - making progress on a number of fronts. It was possible to scope out some work that will be coming up that we need to do over the next few months. I am looking forward to it all.

Had another estate agent around. We are clear about what we are going to do with our house buying - basically it will happen during season 5 and 6. We know the house we want to buy and how much we will need to find to buy it.

Went for a 5km run on Day 24 and managed my personal best figure for a mile - 8 minutes and 36 seconds. The whole run was in 26 minutes and 37 seconds. Pretty good too! I did it around the island - I love being able to run on my island and have nice things to look at and all literally on my door step.

We went to Porters bar at Chatham Maritime. It is about 10 minutes walk away. There was a band on - and we met a friend of ours and a friend of his. So we had a good chat and a few drinks. It is so nice having things to do locally.

Had poached eggs on toast in the morning and also some toast with marmite. After my run I had lots of fresh fruit which was yummy. I was very healthy yesterday. I weighed in at a little less than 11stone 12lbs.

I won the lottery too - just £10 GBP! But that means that I have even more to come later. This is the first week of me doing the lottery and it was great to be able to have won on my first attempt.

Looking forward to tomorrow which is Sunday. Sunday is the best day in the world - ever! :-)

[freezingiceblue]

Thanks Homemom. It is lovely here and I am so pleased that we found this place. Check out some of my videos on this showing the island where I live. Fruit rules - Never tried Tangelos! Like tangerines? Is this your first season?

[Homemom3]

Congratulations on your win and your run. Sounds like you have a very beautiful place, something very peaceful about that. I just started eatings tons of fruit and am loving it. I discovered Tangelos, like oranges but sweeter and less citrus. Wishing you the best day you've had this week. Looking forward to reading more about your journey, you are a few days ahead of me.