Garmin is back, so my phone went ping a lot and all my runs are now up on Strava again1. 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 series2 by Kate Atkinson.
| 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 Flies12 | 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 Pier13 | 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 | Shakespeare14 | Something else we had in, a short read but brilliant. We know almost nothing about Shakespeare. |
| Kate Atkinson | Case Histories2 | 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
10k: Ten km, about six miles in old money. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step-count target.
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. 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.