Wow! a blogless month!

Seen and giggled over from the Alternative dictionary, Washington Post style:

Abdicate:  To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach!

So what have I been doing this past month?   in no special order

• riding my bike-back training
• creating a vegetable garden
• trying to learn to use my smart phone and once I learn how to get pix from there to here you'll be bombarded with proof of the veggie patch
• planting and weeding...all that squatting has to be good for my hip flexibility
• killing slugs and snails
• learning Italian..gotta keep the brain healthy
• Master road nats..2 gold, 1 abandon (road race)
• watching the World  Road champs in Geelong
• watching the Commonwealth games
• weight training
• catching up with friends
• getting bored
• buying a new computer, a dishwasher and a digital TV - retail therapy for the above
• sort of looking after Phil following his fractured hip ..."sort of" 'cos despite being retired I retain the characteristics of a Physio...what pain?? I feel no pain, and he for his part totally ignores all my  professional advice.

Recent signs of rapidly approaching dementia:

• I got new SRM speed sensors for track and road bikes and took ages to work out why they wouldn't work...I'd put them on wrong way round.
• I changed the cranks on my training bike from compact crank 50/34 set up I'd used in Italy back to the SRM 53/39 set up and hopped on the bike to ride to Fed Square to watch the start of the men's world road race.  It wasn't until I tried to move into big chain ring that I realised that to complete the task, I also had to shift the front derailleur up......
• I've lost my keys so many times in the past week I'm thinking of getting a homing device on them

 Plans are afoot for next year...I'm looking at a few weeks in Italy..Cinque Terra, Tuscany and Veneto interspersed with competitions on road and track as and when I can find them.  I have to make some plans fairly soon as early bird offers are finalising.

Pix to follow..not only am I still learning the phone, this new computer lacks my photo library....

Finally..and I hope this link will work....here's a utube type 15 second laugh out loud vid.