Blog2026 ≫ Some snow

We had a little snow today. Not a lot, not enough to close the schools or to stop either of us going to London this week, just a light dusting. It's still freezing out there, not sure it has gone much above zero at any point. I have not really been out, ran on the treadmill today instead.

Full day of week, now a few hours of peace. The others have gone out to a pub quiz. In Dry January 1! I know! I will listen to the live album part of my christmas Pulp album, and dream about Glastonbury.

Had half an hour of free energy today, and got two more tomorrow. It's pointless putting these "sign up here to join Octopus Energy 2" affiliate links on here now, as since I broke the secure certificate no-one is stumbling across this site.

Did some more exciting work on my table of running stats again. The best and worst times not only have a little ring round them, they're also underlined. That's to give you a clue they are a link to that day's run stats. So far my best time on show for runuary 3 is the freakish 4'20 km I did in January 2020, and the worst time is this misrecorded treadmill action a few days later. This is more exciting than my advent calendar seeing what new delights are going to appear each day. It really is one of the things that will make me get up and get moving in the morning. I look forward to my morning coffees (I'm lookign forward to one now and it's a good twelve hours away) and I look forward to recording new exercise stats. It's good I can entertain myself isn't it?

40Kph winds and light rain showers, 2 - 5℃.

Estimated 2954 cups of coffee ☕️ from my espresso machine 4 probably comes to £0.88 a cup (including 4+ years of actual coffee ☕️ and servicing 4 so not the 'leccy).

  1. Not drinking for the month of January.
  2. Join Octopus Energy here and we both earn money.
  3. Running at least 5k every day for the month of January.
  4. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. In theory…

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Paulʼs blog - I live some place you've not heard of in Kent. Married + dad to two, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages etc. My hobbies are pubbing, running, eating, home-automation and other diy stuff, history, tree stuff, telly, squirrels, pirates ☠️, lego, and time travel.

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