enjoy delicious time with your important person

A week before my birthday, these flowers arrived on my desk. There's often things on my desk, as I'm only at that school 2 days a week. One of the teachers mentioned they were for a birthday and did I like them. Yeah, they're very nice I said. Wasn't until later that day when the vice-principal asked how I liked "my flowers" when I realised they were for me.


This was but one part of a multitude of inflatable presents from Al, Michelle and Mari, which also included... a foot pump!
As usual I forgot to take a photo of everyone until half the group had gone home. This is the above-mentioned, plus Doug and myself.




In training for 400km cycle in August. Stage 1: Sakuma dam, 150km - 5 and a half hours. Triangle hills. Crazy tunnels sandblasted straight out of the rock, with monstrous articulated trucks screaming past. And meat sauce spaghetti.