What to do after the London Marathon

Now Blog,

You have finished the London Marathon a year and four days ago. You are still unable to walk. What do you do? Well the house renovation needs finishing so you are inspired into action. Not true; you have been nagged for years by your wife to get the kitchen floor in the servant's quarters sorted and because you have finished the London Marathon on all fours, your resistance is low and all you want is a good sleep and a bit of peace and quiet to recover before you leap into action for your next trudge.

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      Being a tight sod, and just supposing you were given a selection of Victorian and modern day tiles which were badly in need of renovating which most people would chuck out; different sizes, different thicknesses, different shades and just suppose you lived in an old farmhouse which badly needed renovating and just suppose you had plenty of spare time to do said renovating because your trudging was going depressingly slowly (cf above). What would you do?? Quite right Blog. You would design a kitchen floor that had all kinds of  hidden mathematical puzzles so you could use up the selection of Victorian and modern day tiles which were badly in need of renovating which most people would chuck out and so you could use up the found selection of different style Victorian tiles. Space available :-Kitchen => 12’ square. On offer:- Victorian 1½ ” thick small … post war ½” thick small … Victorian orange soft 2” thick large … very old dark red 1½” thick large … few shiny  post war large …and   fact:-  4 smalls tiles measure the same length as 3 bigs ish. The Victorian dangly kitchen light is central. 4 purple triangles, 5 purple squares to what do with? Extra old squares found under layer of lino tiles which were over modern large square reds (but most were unusable from years of wear and tear by clogs) which was over 6” of sand which was over very old orange squares some of which were useable. But the design Blog, the design?? What about a design which would not upset English Heritage when they come to list the Mansion? How to create a design?? Quite right Blog, you would go for a long trudge to work out a design …. Well two trudges actually (and of course they were just after the London Marathon from which you are tired)  And here you have it Blog => picture please James …..JAMES, I said PICTURES.

Total cost about nowt for the tiles and 15 quids for sand and cement not bad even for a tight sod? Are you impressed Blog or are you impressed? OK. Please yourself. The carpet comes tomorrow.

                                    Colin

PS Trudging last night, past a group doing efforts (repetitions), I must confess that I was forced to smile (inwardly to myself of course, one does want to lose my miserable demeanour, does one Blog?)… “The next one, I want you to do at 70% effort.” And two minutes later. “And now, I want this one to be at 80% effort”. If not mathematical then physiological nonsense???? But the coach had lots of badges … so I trudged on before I found out if the next effort was going to be at 110% effort.