My weekend.... football, basketball, curry, low alcohol stout, the wonders of Woking, the spookiness of silver birches, and Seamus gets a new medal

A mixed weekend

• Saturday’s football and basketball were disappointing. To be fair we never do well at Everton

• vegetable dansak at the Jaipur in Woking was lovely, if not over-cheap

• I discovered that I quite like Guinness 0.0

• the Surrey half marathon was lovely. Half rural-suburban, half properly rural…it made a change from running around Bath and London (with cheaper hotels than either)

• there was an avenue/patchy forest of silver birches

• I love a silver birch, but en masse they felt a bit spooky

• got a reasonable time - 5th fastest of my 16 attempts. Still slow AF, though :)

• the Arsenal and Totteringham both mucking up made Sunday’s football both amazing and great

• listened to another Fags, Mags and Bags (hence ‘both amazing and great’). Love that show

• Seamus was pleased with his new medal