Exercise

[louiselux]

Mission accomplished: I won an exercise bike on ebay, for a grand total of £2.70. I'm going to pick it up this afternoon - it's only in Caversham. The owner calls it well used, but it looks fine in the photo. It has a little onboard computer that measures things and it has adjutable resistance. Also, £2.70. I can always invest in a better one if I enjoy it

I think I'm going to copy telophase and cycle from Bag End to Rivendell - 458 miles. I think this might take me a while.

Eta: got the bike. It's fine. A random Polish man helped me take it down our steps into the house when he saw I was struggling.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Yay for winning things on ebay and for biking to Rivendell! £2.70 seems a very resonable price to pay.

I entered a Japanese speech competition! And won the special prize for talking about manga!!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It's a bargain!

Hoorayyy. You are fabulousss. What prize did you get?

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

A silver Cross pen and pencil set and the Scariest Dictionary in the World! It's all in Japanese, printed vertically and is alarmingly yellow. I was full of fear during my speech (though at least the Vast. Assembled. Crowd. Of. Random. Japanese. People laughed when the title of my speech was announced - "I'm a geek!"), and I have no memory of understanding what Important Businessman-san asked me. He may have asked "Do you like the pictures in manga?" to which I replied in terror, "The pictures in manga are kawaii". And then another judge said "You really are a geek, aren't you?" which got the vast assembled crowd giggling again :-)