🚶 12294 steps
🚶 15:40 Shepway Walking 62'31 - Very nice but very hot walk. started off driving to the supermarket with a plan to walk from there, but then when the others had had enough they took the car home, and I carried on walking all the way. laptop in backpack as I'm still in call for one more day.
Passing clouds. 22 - 25℃
Went to Vinodhon in Hythe for a good sensibly sized curry last night with a couple of friends. I shared three vege side dishes with one friend, and had a mushroom rice, and that was plenty. Had a sensible amount to drink too, as I was on call. First we went to our regular , but both friends complained slightly about the beer. I think I only nursed one pint in there, then we went somewhere else for another one, then to the curry where I had water.
When I got in wife as watching a film, Capote, and that was pretty good. Then for some reason Jackie Brown started autoplaying after that so I watched that too. Ended up going to bed way too late, so slightly tired for parkrun.
Called in at one of the same friends this morning as he's moving house, clearing out, and had a huge pile of medical textbooks to offer to T1.
Lazy day apart from that. Might go to Tesco.
You might notice I am posting here less at the moment. I'm still oversharing of course, but the recent security training has made me think more about these things. Probably won't post anything the rest of the week, see how I get on with that.
Sunny and a moderate breeze, 13 - 22℃.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #499. Your time was 00:26:15.
Congratulations on completing your 199th parkrun and your 180th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 126th place out of a field of 370 parkrunners. You were the 92nd male and came 18th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:54.
There's more free energy today 1, just an hour of it. Think we're going to have washing in all day anyway.
Sunny and a moderate breeze, 13 - 22℃.
🚶 14995 steps
🚶 09:31 Shepway Walking 29'00
🏃 09:01 Folkestone parkrun 5.0K, 5'09/K - In theory should have been a good one today because of a sensible lack of drinking because I'm on call from work. However, I did go out for a curry and then when I got in I watched two films so not an early night so not a good run. also very hot today and because the wife has gone to the gym I have to walk home so a bit more exercise at least. maybe if I'd walked here I'd be more warmed up and would have done better.
Some things missing from the graph since September 2023, working on getting them back just kind of hoping someone else will fix it and they'll come back.
Only run this week. Best pace for a 09/08!
| date | '18 | '19 | '20 | '21 | '22 | '23 | '24 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/08 | 5'42 | 5'14 | 5'09 🆕 |
Clear. 17 - 23℃
🚶 9217 steps
🚶 17:02 Shepway Walking 26'45
Clear. 15 - 23℃
🚶 9083 steps
🚶 08:18 Shepway Walking 38'10 - Just getting some fresh air before work. Terrible step count yesterday.
Passing clouds. 17 - 20℃
🚶 2544 steps
Clear. 15 - 19℃
I'm not a fan of AI, but I'm also not a fan of Gregg Wallace or John Torrode. Why not use AI to edit them out of the the new series of Masterchef? That would have been a good demo of what we can do these days? Would be nice to see it used for good instead of just generating fake news.
Saw some people I used to work with at Holiday Extras on the train yesterday, but not to speak to. I could have moved to a different part of the train in order to chat but I would have risked my seat. I got a seat at a table both ways, which is about par for the course.
Oh, and I have a free train ticket for September. Wife bought some cheap ones in advance, she has one she can't use now, so transferred it to me. It is only to and from Stratford, so I have to get the tube that last bit. And I have to leave early if I want to use the cheap return part. I hope I remember. Maybe we'll cancel the cheap return, see if we can get some money back. But getting the train as far as Stratford and the tube (is it the Elizabeth line?) that last stop is probably faster.
Wife has commuted in today. There was a dog taking up a seat.
We had some free Octopus Energy yesterday 1, while I was in London. I left instructions how to use it, but what are the chances, the one day T1 gets up before lunch time, he decided to be helpful and put the dryer on, so missing the free energy slot there.
Sunny and a moderate breeze, 13 - 21℃.
I kept the car today, often I've been getting a lift to the station or we've been going in together. So, fairly busy day, fairly productive, think I got the go ahead to delete a couple of big lumps of annoying code that are slowing systems down and have been annoying me for years. Now I have to prove I can do it and it won't break things and it will speed things up.
Because of keeping the car, no long walk home today. But I did walk a bit more at work, so not quite the disastrous step count it might have been at home.
As that's my last commute of the week I can reorganise my bags a bit, how exciting.
I got some bargain advanced tickets for future commuting, there are some £16.20 singles if you book them far enough in advance. So that's £32 quid for the return insted of the £82 or so I paid today.
The others have gone out to a quiz, I can watch the last episode of Eternauts in peace.
🚶 11905 steps
Passing clouds. 14 - 20℃
It's very windy out. Just went for a walk and it's very very windy. They've gone and named a storm again.
That is about my highlight of the day, a brief walk to Sandgate and back. Apart from that, much work, some ironing, and then bed. I will be up early for going into London tomorrow.
Yesterday was also very windy. We went to Dover Castle. We did the Taskmaster English Heritage challenge, and it added a bit of extra fun to a walk round the castle.
Speaking of Sandgate though it seems to have been in the Daily Mail today. A friend sent a link, all about DFLs coming down here ruining our village, pricing out the locals etc. I expect that's what it said, I did not click on the link. Sandgate is very much gentrified right now. I wonder what the Inn Doors would be like if it was still there? I think the Inn Doors would have loved to have got away with charging seven pounds a pint like the bar that replaced it. Then maybe it would have just morphed into that bar, rather than closing and a new one opened in its place.
I got away with being first line on call for seven days, did not get woken in the night. Now seven days of second line on call, hope I am as lucky.
A clear sky and a fresh breeze, 11 - 22℃.
🚶 9103 steps
🚶 18:09 Shepway Walking 42'28 - Just a stroll to Sandgate and back. Very windy, quiet on the streets.
Passing clouds. 16 - 19℃
🚶 10232 steps
🚶 13:57 Dover Walking 17'13 - Recharged the watch while having our picnic lunch at Dover Castle. We did the taskmaster challenge and checked out the Roman lighthouse this time.
🚶 12:20 Dover Walking 22'32 - Went to Dover castle, nice walk round doing Taskmaster challenge. Watch battery died part way round...
Passing clouds. 19 - 22℃
Folkestone parkrun results for event #498. Your time was 00:24:42.
Congratulations on completing your 198th parkrun and your 179th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 102nd place out of a field of 400 parkrunners. You were the 81st male and came 12th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:54.
Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze, 12 - 21℃.
🚶 21717 steps
🏃 09:00 Shepway Running 5.0K, 4'55/K - no visit to the potting shed last night and no booze all week actually because I'm on call from work. by coincidence. that seems to be a lot faster than last week's run...
🚶 14:18 Shepway Walking 83'19 - Still on call, took my laptop. Got haircuts and stopped for a real ale and some noodles.
Some things missing from the graph since September 2023, working on getting them back just kind of hoping someone else will fix it and they'll come back.
Only run this week. Second best pace for a 02/08.
| date | '20 | '21 | '22 | '23 | '24 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/08 | 4'36 | 5'04 | 4'55 🆕 |
Clear. 14 - 19℃
I was thinking of getting Chinese takeaway from Dragon House in Hythe, because I sometimes do get that on my way back from the Potting Shed. But, it's right next to the Potting Shed. Best I go somewhere else while I'm not drinking.
I'm sitting in playing records, while I wait for the others also to have their tea. No-one else likes this takeaway as much as me, so everyone's got something different. Definitely inspired to fire up some vinyl today because a friend is just showing pictures of his new set-up. Glad that it's just working, the Sonos set up with the new wifi, though we did have a bit of a hiccup earlier. Very slow speeds reported in the house again though the speed test to the house was good. I still had the old Trooli router plugged in and figure it might have been interfering, so have disconnected that now. Might be coincidence but the speed went right up again, 500Mb/s.
A clear sky and a gentle breeze, 11 - 21℃.
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