About Karen

I am first and foremost Pete's girlfriend and Bernard's mother. I am a kept woman, earning pin money and karma by working as an NCT Breastfeeding Counsellor and a doula. I am a skeptic who knits.

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May 29, 2015

Final Day

This morning we had a slow start, a lazy breakfast, and then wandered out into the sunshine. Because of course there is glorious sunshine on our last day here. We crossed the bridge and took the number two tram, which … Continue reading

Karen
May 28, 2015

City of Trains

In an attempt to walk less distance today, we made a plan with the Pocklesses to ride on various railway trains. So naturally we started out with a 5k on the island runway (I’m so in love with the red … Continue reading

Karen
May 27, 2015

We may have overdone it

The highlights of today were breakfast (pictured), ice cream at the zoo, a couple of particularly good geocaches, and beers with Dr Pockless, who has potential to be a Bad Influence on his small nephew.

Karen
May 24, 2015

Budagain

Today has mostly been about the travelling, true trains, planes and automobiles style. My smugness at good packing was somewhat undone when Pete had to repack our toiletries because the ziplock bags i had used were millimetres ober the standard … Continue reading

Karen
May 18, 2015

Not so far, not so fast

I have this blog thing here and I haven’t written on it for ages, etc. Yesterday I ran the Royal Berkshire 10k, a race with the same starting line as the Reading Half Marathon, but which then heads into the … Continue reading

Karen