I was on the treadmill this morning, warming up for a run, thinking of doing 10k today as I've not been out since Sunday. Nearly ten minutes in and Clare shouted, she got a text from a mum at school "our boy is really looking forward to today"... It was a holiday club that we had booked, Clare told me the wrong day so we weren't ready for it. Quick panic get him dressed pack his lunch and throw him in the car and we got to the sports centre just in time. ust getting ready to go for a run and Clare got a text mentioning the holiday club thing two's meant to be at today... so quick panic pack him a lunch and get him dressed and run him to the sports centre just in time. Then got there and found they should have brought bikes or scooters too, so a quick nip home and back again. Hope he's alright, it's a very sports themed day. He had the idea it would be mostly Nerf guns, but I think it's going to be a bit more dodgeball.
My treadmill warmup was under ten minutes so might not even show up here. The run was quite good though, under twenty-three minutes as I had thing one riding alongside me setting a good pace. He has no stamina though so he struggled on the way back and I had to keep going back for him. If he'd maintained the pace it would have been a really good one. When I get back to parkrun again and there are people running beside me it's going to be fine.
A high of 20° today, shame it's going bad by the weekend. We had some mini golf planned!
Some gig history for today, I was seeing Tiger twenty-two years ago today, the first Beta Band gig twenty-three years ago today I think, and Suicidal Tendencies twenty-seven years ago this very day.
I finished Lord Of The Flies1, it's not very nice is it? Glad I have the educational edition as it has a few explanatory notes in it. The book does not explain who the boys are or why they are there, only hints at it. Think I'm going with another George Orwell next2.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind3 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open3 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games3 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire3 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay3 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020... |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying4 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle5 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder6 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely! |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent7 | Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime. |
| Julie Wassmer | Murder on the Pilgrims Way8 | Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. Mostly predictable and cosy but I did not get the actual end murderer correct. |
| Reginald Hill | Blood Sympathy9 | Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable. |
| Robert Webb | Come Again10 | Time travel action rom-com, not very good, feels like two unrelated stories in one with no resolution. |
| Reginald Hill | Born Guilty11 | Joe Sixsmith again, hoping I enjoy all of this series as much as the first one. Dated and a little complicated but lots of fun. |
| William Golding | Lord Of The Flies1 | Like I'm doing GCSE English! I had not read this before but we had it in the house. |
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 4028908 | 144978 |
| Brazil | 2166532 | 81597 |
| India | 1194085 | 28770 |
| Russia | 783328 | 12580 |
| Peru | 362087 | 17267 |
| Mexico | 349396 | 39485 |
| Chile | 334683 | 8677 |
| Spain | 313274 | 28424 |
| UK | 295817 | 45422 |
| Iran | 278827 | 14634 |
Nothing new from work yet. The employee reps have been appointed but I don't think it changes anything.
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + UK + Italy + France + India
10k: Ten km, just over six miles in old money. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step count target.
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in A small town. Wed to Clare + dad to 2, I'm a full-stack web engineer, and I do mostly js / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.