Blog ≫ 2020 ≫ Back on the treadmill

Garmin is back, so my phone went ping a lot and all my runs are now up on Strava again 1. This reminds me I used the treadmill for the first time in ages on Thursday. I was just doing a little warm up for a planned 10k, definitely going to do it and it's definitely going to be good... Clare's phone went, and, ah, I realise I already told this story.

A high of 20° today, it's picking up again, going to be a hot weekend.

A small update from work but still nothing firm, I'm waiting on my first one to one consultancy.

Started on my new birthday books, so pausing on George Orwell for a bit to pick up the first in the Jackson Brodie series 2 by Kate Atkinson.

Author Book Thoughts
Ian Rankin Westwind 3 Dated thriller, shame.
Ian Rankin Doors Open 3 Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus.
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games 3 Borrowed from the children, very good.
Suzanne Collins Catching Fire 3 Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker.
Suzanne Collins Mockingjay 3 Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020...
Karen McManus One Of Us Is Lying 4 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 Castle 5 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 Murder 6 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 Intent 7 Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime.
Julie Wassmer Murder on the Pilgrims Way 8 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 Sympathy 9 Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable.
Robert Webb Come Again 10 Time travel action rom-com, not very good, feels like two unrelated stories in one with no resolution.
Reginald Hill Born Guilty 11 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 Flies 12 Like I'm doing GCSE English! I had not read this before but we had it in the house.
George Orwell The Road To Wigan Pier 13 Might be a bit bleak but again I already had this one in the house as part of a George Orwell box set. I took a break from this to read my new books.
Bill Bryson Shakespeare 14 Something else we had in, a short read but brilliant. We know almost nothing about Shakespeare.
Kate Atkinson Case Histories 2 Birthday present, have seen these Jackson Brodie stories on TV and liked it a lot.
Country cases deaths
USA 4371839 149848
Brazil 2419901 87052
India 1436019 32812
Russia 812485 13269
Mexico 385036 43374
Peru 384797 18229
Chile 345790 9112
Spain 323742 28434
UK 299426 45752
Iran 291172 15700

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + UK + Italy + India + France

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10k: Ten km, about six miles in old money. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step-count target.

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Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Wed to Clare + dad to 2, I am a full-stack web developr, and I do mostly javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home automation and other diy stuff, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.