Morning,
I don’t ‘usually’ get up much before 11am, and often a great deal later than that, so this week I’m really pleased to say that I’ve been up before 9 every day (except Monday, when I got up around 11, why not - it was a bank holiday). For someone who normally has a chaotic routine, I’m pretty excited about this, because it is all down to one very simple tip I was given a couple of weeks ago. It took a week to get into the routine, and it has taken another week to keep it on track. This week has been extremely intense at times, but I’m hoping I can stick to the plan, and plan to make sure this happens.
So, am I off to Denver this weekend? No, Essex actually, but that just doesn’t sound all that exciting (nothing against Essex of course). To put it the other way, I could say I was going to cycle or drive to Stratford, which wouldn’t be much of a big deal, as Stratford is about 45 mins drive / 2 hours by bike from Coventry. But for an American, Stratford is an amazing place to visit (and in my opinion, Warwick Castle is even more impressive, but it isn’t so famous).
So, I’m actually off on a bike ride to somewhere I might otherwise call ‘Glorious Middle Earth’ - it doesn’t have much to do with Lord of the Rings (Tolkien was inspired by The Black Country) - and I don’t know if the people who live there are particularly happy, but it is a very pleasant typical English village. On the village green, there’s a memorial to cyclists.
Speaking of which, I’m ‘flying’ with ‘BA’ (Bike Airways = the rest of the world’s favourite airline), and the ‘gate’ (front door) was supposed to have closed 5 minutes ago (my aim was to be out by 9, back around 10 - I’m running 5 minutes late, oh the stress is killing me (softly-not).
HAVE A NICE DAY 
