Favourite quote

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.
It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
- Nelson Mandela

Monday, January 27, 2025

Wanting my man bod back

Okay, so it's an old man bod at the moment, so I was a bit more conscious of what I eat and this morning -  Auckland anniversary holiday, having an hour that was deemed "free" (ie, to early to have jobs allocated), I decided to hit the running tack. 

It reminded me of how I really hate running, but it was probably good for me.

Wife allowed me to     a) take her new car for an outing

                                     b) have some girl time

So I grabbed my big camera and a few lenses, got dressed and hit the road without really thinking it through.

I ended up in Clevedon - probably thinking about Ardmore Aerodrome and photographing some aircraft, but didn't see any flying today, so drove right past. Plan B was artistic beach photos.














I did see a small group of pine tress and thought about how you might want to see me posing with more interesting backdrops than just shopping malls. But still no need for the big camera.

I stopped at Mitre 10 on the way home, more stuff for the house.










And while I love this white top, I do feel a bit fat in it.
The black top is more slimming I think

Other exercises today, cutting back 1.5 meters of hedging, removing sediment from a storm water sump pit, planting wifes trees, moving a couple of wheelbarrow loads of soil around, and relocating all her heavy pot plants. Body is now sore in places I didn't even know I had.


3 comments:

Toni in nz said...

Hi Rachel,
The white top looks good on you and from the previous posts with the top does not make you look fat.
You where in my neck of the wood's yesterday.
Love reading your posts and the effort you put into this blog spot.
Thank you.
Toni

Rachel said...

I should have asked you where some photographic spots are, at this stage I would like some dark sky for astro but also enjoy old buildings. It's been so many years since my Canon got used, I probably don't remember most of the controls. If I had walking shoes, I probably would have walked Duders park or that hill with hundreds of steps in Clevedon

Toni in nz said...

That hill has 240 steps its call the stairway to heaven and no I haven't done it, I would love to but I've got a lung disease aspergillosis, how wonderful only 2 or 3 people out of 100,000 get it I'm one of the lucky ones, Not.
I love cycling and running but can't do that anymore. Anyway enough of my bleating.
Love your pics and stories.
Tonz.