Sunday 15th March 2026

Day two of the weekend. Though every day is a weekend now, of course.

Another bright start with the promise of cloud and rain later.

And after the only coffee of the day, its on with the shorts and off to the gym for some early morning phys.

Papers are full of possible fuel shortages, so we fill the car up just to be sure, and do this on the way to the gym. Hopefully the madness of the Iran war might die down soon. as the Orange One seems to have so little international support. Coming a few days after saying he needed no support.

Anyway.

Peddle. Peddle. Peddle.

And my earphone go crazy, turning the volume up and down, activating voice commands, fast forwarding the podcast.

I have to give up and just pull up a new city to ride round, and there's a new one to enjoy riding round Manhattan.

Time dragged.

We were done by ten to eight, and back home for eight and the start of Radcliffe and Maconie.

We were to have a quieter day, so we listened to the radio for a couple of hours. Jools then went to sow seeds for some summer colour, and I fired the mower up to get rid of some of the lusher grass caused by seeds falling from the feeders.

That took all of ten minutes, and it looked a tad neater.

I looked to the small pond, and see two frogs sticking their heads out, probably males on the lookout for lady frogs. We have no spawn yet, so I take a shot with the phone.

And then it is lunchtime, so thoughts turn to food.

We are low on fresh supplies, so I defrost some ragu, but to make it a meal, I find a recipe for quick Italian bread online. It required adding honey to the water/yeast mix. We didn't have any, so I made do with black treacle, which will give it colour!

Anyway, the bread is all risen and baked for half one, the pasta cooked, mixed with the ragu, and using some of the pasta water, ensures that the ragu sticks to the pasta for a really splendid meal.

We done in time for football, and with the reputation of the Premier League taking a bashing in Europe midweek, two dreadful games on Sunday didn't help things, But Spurs did somehow score an equaliser against Liverpool in injury time to break their losing streak. Though they haven't won a game in 2026 yet.