Weekend 14/1/12 – 15/1/12

Saturday

Up early, zazen, then out on the bike.

Once home, defrosted the car for Michelle, postman turned up with my meditation stool, then while Michelle was off horse riding with the girls, had a nice bath, then made a bit of lunch for their return.

Out to get some bits & bobs from the supermarket, then home for Haggis, Neeps &  Tatties.

Another episode in the Harry Potter series this evening, then sleeeeeep

Sunday

5:45am zazen using the meditation stool this morning. Took me a little while to get used to it but eventually got there. Big benefit over half-lotus is that my legs don’t hurt as much and don’t go to sleep – I’m not a great fan of pins and needles. Especially cos it takes a while for my legs to wake up.

The rest of the house were still sleeping, so I read downstairs for a bit then started tidying the kitchen. A massive declutter and clean means our glass recycling box is full of old glassware. Once the kitchen was tidy, i made some nice poached eggs on toast for us all for breakfast.

Once that was done it was time for me to try and fix my car. The big Pathfinder is due a service, but on a mammoth work trip just before Christmas, it started playing up. When you put it under load it’s revs would drop as though it was getting something like fuel starvation. It sorted itself out again over Christmas, but this week it started to play up again. I put some diesel redex in the fuel  tank when I filled it up but this just seemed to make it worse! So that fairly quickly ruled out the fuel. But today I had a brainwave – I popped out the air filter and gave it a shake, and loads of stuff came out of it. Leaves, dust, sand – you name it. I also topped up the engine oil. And that seems to have cured it – where I would get power fade on acceleration before, it seems ok now. Cross fingers.

After a fantastic beef lunch, I packed my bags, loaded the car, and started my journey to Bristol for work.