I’m just going to jump back in here, I’ll eventually catch up on the last 6 weeks but if I don’t start writing I’ll burst. I am now a proud (but sore) member of the Club Med Gym here in Paris. I was taken through an initial program today that had me stagger home, stopping at the cinema halfway just to take a rest. The gym was fine. Very very busy at 10am in the morning which is supposedly one of the quietest times, but fine. Full of gay men sitting on machines watching each other (and themselves), with a few older men and women working out – and me, the only overweight person in there. Surprisingly I didn’t find it particularly intimidating. I guess that proves I’m ready to just do it, although the test for that will be tomorrow morning if I try and come up with an excuse not to go or not….

The film I saw was Shrek 3 which I thought was a little disappointing. It wasn’t top of my list, but it just happened to be on as I made my stagger down into the depths of Les Halles for a rest on my way home. With all the brilliant films on at the moment, and those that have been playing for the last 6 weeks it was a bit of a shame it wasn’t so good, but there you go. 1 down, many more to look forward to. In Glasgow I used to make it a treat to go to the cinema after the gym. The detour added an additional 45 minutes to my walk home so it was a well thought out diversion, but here I almost walk right by which is a bargain in itself, I’m going to try and work it into the complex if/what/then patterns that I have in my head when it comes to exercising…

Tonight is the Fete de la Musique here in Paris. Music on every street, free concerts, free public transport – generally one of the noisiest nights we’ve experienced and lucky for us, this year, on the corner of our street and the rue Montorgueil there is a country/folk/pop band playing from 7pm ’till around 2am. Oh joy! Michelle has a dinner she’s going to around the corner with her secret AGATHA(!) association and I’m having dinner with Valerie for the first time in months we’re all meeting here for aperitifs with some other friends before heading off to different restaurants and presumably meeting again on a street corner later tonight for some tunes.