I’m getting very late to this sort of thing and know that most people have already done it and have the means and ability to but last week I finalised the project at home to put the IT infrastructure in place for the next 10 years.
We got Chris our IT guy at the clinic to cable the house (subtly) to provide three new wifi metres to the inside of the house in different places and then one in the shed out the back.
I had to put a little bit of armoured cable down through the garden (subtly) and now I’m sat in the shed.
There are some cobwebs in here and a Wattbike (it’s my Wattbike bolt-hole) and footballs and golf clubs and various other things.
Directly in front of me is a signed Richard Whitehead Paralympic GB running vest from Beijing 2008 (on loan from Louis Dunne) which is straddled on each side by my Outlaw triathlon finisher T-shirt from 2015 and my Outlaw half finisher T-shirt from 2013 (the two best events I ever did in triathlon).
They’re sat there to inspire me as I look up to give me inspiration from someone who’s extraordinary and then inspiration from a better version of me from years gone by.
This morning I went into work before I came here, rode my bike for a bit with Alex J and then went in to see some delegates on the course.
I love that, I could do that all day but chatting to people and being affable and saying Hello won’t pay the bills.
I am here and going forwards is where most the important work will be done.
I have a beautiful office at work where I can frost the glass and rooms which are silent and closed with brilliant wifi but the truth is when I step into the clinic the clinic owns me and disturbed and interrupted (quite rightly) many, many times.
I need uninterrupted times inside my own head, inside my own shed and I think it’s likely that this will become one of my favourite places in the world.
It doesn’t have to be a shed in your garden and loads of people don’t have that privilege but finding the space and place to be able to do this stuff will become more and more important in a world that moves too fast and too anxiously for almost anything to be done.
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