So at least I’m keeping up with the updating part of the project!

1/. Get more out of Parkrun

The cold, lack of money and my sinuses have hampered this one. I’ve managed 2 runs this month, so have 34 to go for my 50 club t shirt. I had planned to do Heaton Park for the love run, but then we didn’t have petrol to get there and the online entry had closed, so then planned to do South Manchester this morning instead, but after a night of tossing and turning I woke up with a blocked nose and feeling like hell, so went back to sleep! South Manchester is a much flatter course than Bramhall, so am thinking it will give us both a motivational boost if we can beat our pbs, as I haven’t improved this month and Gra has had a while since his last, hopefully we’ll make it next week.

2/. Read and review at least 2 books per month.

Definitely done this one! I’ve read 5 out of the 6 of the set Donna has given me, I need to update the reviews for 3 of them, but will do that in the next couple of days when I finish the final instalment.

3/. Do at least 1 new thing a month.

My favourite for this has to be going to see Peter Kay, something I’ve been wanting to do for years! Well done and thanks to Mum for getting the tickets x

4/. Go swimming regularly.

Way too cold here to think about this one yet, hopefully if it warms up in the next couple of weeks I’ll have a go then as part of my training for the half m which is getting way too close!

5/. Keep in better contact with friends and loved ones.

I think I’ve done well at this one. Me and Anna have visited Nan this month, I’ve seen Claire twice, and have plans to meet Kath and Pete next week. I’ve not physically seen Bert buty have txt him a lot and Batty has started coming round at weekends now he’s back at work, so all good

A young girl, who has been murdered, watches over her family — and her killer — from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

I was expecting this to be like an episode of Ghost Whisperer where the deceased helps the living find out who killed them, whereas this is more the soul of the dead girl is watching over her family, and her killer, but its the love the family feel for their lost relative that leads them to find out the truth. Stanley Tucci plays the murderer almost too well and his performance will definitely give you the creeps!

Tonight me and mum went to see Peter Kay in his first show for over 7 years. As a warm up to the Tour-that-doesn’t-tour-Tour, Peter is playing 5 nights at Bury Met with proceeds going to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

We arrived outside the Met about half 6 expecting there to be a large queue already, so were very suprised to find we were at the start and as such managed to get front row central seats Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to keep the tickets, we literally collected them from the box office took a few steps to the stairs where they were taken off us again and not even given a stub to keep

Peter was a bit rusty, but that’s understandable with the amount of time he’s had away from touring. The gig kicked off literally with a member of the audience throwing 2 beachballs on to the stage with questions written on them. The unrehearsed parts of the show and especially the question and answer section at the end were the highlights for me. Peter stated that he was using the Met gigs to try out his new material and then work out where to put what in the actual tours, but the beauty of such a small audience (only 300) was a more intimate atmosphere alllowing him to interact with the audience.

If tonight’s performace is anything to go by, the tour when it actually starts properly will be amazing!

Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

Not quite sure how well this fits with Greek mythology, but it was entertaining enough to keep me quiet on a cold afternoon!

We had a change of course this morning, possibly due to the amount of falls on the bridge last week and the anticipated freezing conditions again. As it was, I found it to be much warmer than previous weeks, hopefully the weather will continue in this direction! I wasn’t too happy with the new course, although the second big hill had been cut out, I felt like more of it was up hill (not that I’d previously thought that to be possible!), but didn’t seem to have a downhill to compensate. It could just be that I’ve become accostomed to the usual course and as such have points where I aim to run towards knowing where the hills and as such the walking bits will be! Gra joined me this week, but didn’t manage to be caught on camera.

Thomas Craven is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma, is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But, he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her murder. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder — and to CIA operative Darius Jedburgh, who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.

Definitely not one you can fall asleep to, not just because you’d get lost from the plot, but also as the sound of gun fire will wake you up! This was anopther filnm I’d gone to not knowing anything about the storyline and not really expecting much, but I was pleasantly suprised

Gra had abandoned me deciding to stay in bed with his hang over than come ouut for a run with me! To be fair once the coldness kicked in I could hardly blame him, it seems to be getting colder each week, not warmer! The icy conditions didn’t help either, with several falls on what we call tom’s bridge as he falls there with or without ice! I’d laughingly walked over saying to the marshall I always walk over the bridges and then my foot disappeared from under me! grr Finger’s crossed for warmer weather next week!

Natalie has dreamed of being a serious photographer ever since she got her first camera at 8 years old. She aspires to be like her heroine, Annie Leibowitz, and take fabulous soulful pictures. But then she took the picture that would shoot her straight into the world of celebrity culture and the pages of Heat. Natalie couldn’t resist snapping ace footballer Brett Ballentine in a clinch with his childhood sweetheart. Selling the picture to the tabs was a no-brainer. Now she can set herself up with all the best equipment. Poor naïve Natalie didn’t realise that the media would turn her into a wannabee celebrity monster, falling out of cabs, half cut and half dressed. Nobody’s interested in her photography. Natalie’s only option is to take a controversial undercover job as a paparazzi, earn enough money to free herself from her devious agent, and resign herself to life in ‘ordinaryville’ again. On an exclusive beach on location, Nat can’t resist capturing beautiful model Jen Jones as she bends to snort a line of coke as the sun sets. When Jen begs her to delete the picture Natalie flashes back to what got her into her mess in the first place. She gives Jen what she wants, and Jen’s story begins …

As the first book was so easy to read, I curled up with this one the night after and once again finished it in a matter of hours. I found the main character in this one harder to like or relate to than Katie, but I think that was the author’s way of showing her distaste for the cult of celebrity. Again, the book was a really easy read and flowed nicely from chapter to chapter. Each book gives the chapter of the next at the end, which i’ve resisted reading so far in case I end up reading all 6 in one go!

17-year-old Katie is overwhelmed when she lands a job as a nanny for Premier League footballer Brett Ballentine and his wife Kassie’s kids. Arriving at the Ballentine mansion in London, Katie feels as though she’s living in OK magazine. Plus, she’s got a whole floor of the house to herself, her own car, and the inside scoop on Britain’s most notorious celebrity couple. But there is a downside. Katie has to learn to keep her mouth shut when it comes to some of Kassie’s strange and desperate behaviour. And Brett is like the ice man – he barely acknowledges her. As time goes on the ‘happy couple’ reveal their true colours, and the true state of their volatile marriage. Kassie has a twisted secret, and Brett’s getting too fond of ‘playing away’. Katie feels like she and the kids are caught in the middle of a war zone, culminating in a shocking revelation about Brett. Katie knows that what she knows about the Ballentines could mean she never has to work again. But while Katie struggles with her predicament, a budding young photographer snaps the picture the tabloids have been waiting for and catapults herself into the limelight …

This is the first in the six book series called ‘Consequences’. I borrowed the set from Donna a few months ago, but they’ve just been sat in the living room untouched since. But when I finally got round to picking up the first book, I found it such an easy read that I finished it in a matter of hours. The series is aimed at a teenage audience, but this book will strike a chord with most adult readers as well.