Biking, blood tests and back to the chateau

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[Music] Good morning. Right, we have to run a quick errand this morning and then we need to make a plan because well, because it’s just too pretty a day not to take full advantage of. Right. Well, errand run. I had to go back to the doctors to um discuss the results of the blood test. I literally made it inside the door of her study and she said, “You’re fine. There’s no thing there’s nothing to worry about the tests. Your cholesterol is a tiny bit high, but maybe just keep an eye on that and check it once a year.” So, I put a note in my calendar thingy on the phone to go every 6 months, but just a quick checkup and uh control technique for me. So, I’m delighted with that. Now, that’s out of the way, here’s what needs to happen today. So, I really want to go mountain biking because the last couple of days have been super nice here in rural France. The trails are in good condition. I just want to get out me bike and go blasting about the place. I haven’t been out in a while. I do have to work tomorrow at the chateau. So, I need to think about this a bit logistically because where I was going to go biking is kind of the opposite way from my house to where the chatau is and I was going to go camping tonight. So, I don’t want to go all the way that way. Go boy can go camping. And then in the morning, I have to get up and go all the way back that way. So, I’m going to have a chat with me old mate Damian and see if he has any trail plans for over near the chatau because if anyone knows where the good trails are, it’s Damian. So, I’m going to have this coffee, pop Damian a message, and hit the road. [Music] [Music] right, we have the bones of a plan. Now, here’s where we currently are with the plan. I think I’ve sorted somewhere to stay tonight. So, we might not need to go camping in the back of Pascal. And I got it for really, really cheap because it’s well, it’s Wednesday and it’s offse. So, don’t think we have to worry too much about camping stuff, but we do need biking stuff and we need work stuff for tomorrow and can’t remember something else. We’ll figure that out along the way. So, let’s get the biking gear and the work gear together cuz it’s been a while since I’ve been at the Chateau and stuff’s got spread out a bit. [Applause] Neat solar panels now. Text my mate Damian and said I want to go bike on over nearer Abusong way. Do you have any trails? And he sent me back a thumbs up. So hopefully he’s going to send me some trails that I can put onto my phone and have a rough kind of idea of where I’m going because there’s really good trails over that way and it’s not too far from the chatau and like I said, we found a really cool place to stay. So I think all in all we’re in good shape hopefully on that front. I just need to get in a bike, get in a bike, put a bike in Pascal, get in the car and go. And then by the time I’m there, which is, you know, uh hopefully he’ll have sent me a trail and we can we can go and do that. I’m so looking forward to getting out today and then tomorrow doing a load of work at Chatau. It’s just going to be it just has the bones of a good day and a last minute plan always translates into a good day on the bike. Right, let that bike charge another couple of minutes. Go make some lunch. [Music] [Music] Perfect for anyone who cares. The mountain bike’s name is Bishop because he has an electric brain and when you cut him, he bleeds white fluid. Anyone gets that reference? They’re okay with me. Right. I think that’s I think that’s everything. Yeah. Oh, laptop. That’s everything. Let’s go. [Music] Yeah. Wow. [Music] Down. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Well, I’ve had an absolutely fantastic day over here in Abuson. I’m so glad I decided to come biking today over here. I was planning on going somewhere else, but because I’m working in the chateau in the morning, it sort of made sense to come most of the way to work today. And I know around Amazon there’s loads and loads of biking trails. Some I’ve been on and but all the trails today I have never been on before. They were just just amazing. The mountain bikers have this word called flowy. So when the trails are really flowy, you just kind of glide down them like a like a knob of butter sliding off some hot toast. And that’s what it was like today. It was just sort of super carvy and flowy and beautiful. The ground had just that right consistency of a bit soft but not too slippy. So happy I came over here. So now what we got to do is go find where we’re staying, which is that way, get that sorted, and then head out and get a bite to eat. And I’m thinking pizza. A nice healthy pizza, if there’s such a thing. I don’t know. We’ll figure it out. Life’s too short not to eat pizza. That’s what I say. Right, let’s go. There’s a dog out doing jobs. Hi ladies. [Music] Ouch. That’s hard. [Music] Well, that was delicious. Well needed. And I am knackered now. So, I’m going back to sleep. So, thank you very much for watching today’s vlog. I do hope you enjoyed it. I’m back at the chatau in the morning, so I’ll see you there.