Three free days.

Delightfully, I have spent no money this weekend apart from on food, which is impressive especially since my parents are on holiday so its all self motivated! I am scrimping and saving so that I can have a bit to spend in Scotland (only a few days to go now!) without plunging myself into even more financial problems before pay day (that is, the day the student loan comes through!) My three free days have found me reading, playing badminton with Alec, reading, cooking myself a roast dinner (ok, ok, so the chicken was already cooked, but I did the potatoes) watching The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (love it, it gets me every time!) and perhaps most unusually of all, last night watching the international space station fly past. I should explain that when I got back from church last night my lovely next door neighbour was looking fixedly at the sky and told me that the international space station was apparently about to fly over. Not sure quite how rare that is but anyway. I went out to the garden and indeed there was a slow moving white light tracing its way across the sky. I had a profound moment, thinking to myself how amazingly big the universe is and so on. That gets me every time too.
Today I went on another training walk, this time sadly reduced to walking along the Basingstoke canal. To be fair, it was quite picturesque, but hardly what you'd call an extreme walk. Although my original plan to walk to Woking fell through cos the path had collapsed and the detour signs had be tampered with. Having walked for 15mins along what I thought could be the path, I realised that there were more sentry posts around than in the average public right of way, and decided to chance it no longer. So I headed in the other dirextion down to Aldershot. Mind you, I still came across the army; a platoon of soldiers was running the opposite way to me a few miles later. Thankfully they were quite amiable.
All in all I covered about 10 miles in just over 3 hours with no stopping for longer than a minute. Which I thought was quite good going really.
Excitingly my camera appears to be working again. Not too sure how far I trust it, though...