Today’s earworm playlist:
Rizzle Kicks – ‘Down With The Trumpets’
Head clearing
Three miles today…
…which was a nice way to start the day and clear my head, as I was really busy with day job work today. I was able to get out for a walk to the supermarket with Geth at lunchtime too.
Other than that, I’ve just been getting work finished for clients today. There’ll be a bit more work over the weekend, but hopefully tomorrow will be slightly lighter.
I’ll be back with another update on Monday. Running vlogs as usual for the next couple of days!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Roxette – ‘Sleeping In My Car’
Carl Orff – ‘Gassenhauer’
Kiki Dee – ‘Star’
Rizzle Kicks – ‘Down With The Trumpets’
A pleasant new pattern
Another short run today…
…followed by a nice walk in the sunshine. I’m really happy with my daily routine at the moment. I’m usually done with running/walking/yoga by noon, and then I can crack on with day job work/admin in the afternoon and be done by eight or nine at night so that I can relax for a couple of hours before bed. I’m not at all a morning person, but strangely, I have turned out to be a morning exerciser – I feel very unsettled on days when I have to do it in the evenings – so keeping to a more traditional nine-to-five schedule for work and then running afterwards just wouldn’t work for me at all.
Tomorrow will be busy as I’ve got a couple of clients with tight deadlines at the moment. It looks like I’ll be working over the weekend as well, which is often the case at this time of year, but I’m really grateful that the work is coming in, as it looked for a while like September might be quieter than usual.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Carl Orff – ‘Gassenhauer’
Vangelis – ‘Chariots Of Fire’
Phone Box Thursday: Shaw Lane, Drummore
Here’s another phone box from Mum and Dad’s adventures in Dumfries and Galloway.
(Coordinates 54°68’99.4″N, 4°89’39.7″W.)
The phone box and the playpark/grassy area behind it has been tidied and prettied up a bit since the Google image was taken. However, the phone is no longer in situ, and there’s an imminent removal notice inside the box, sadly.
There seems to be a real push for phone box removal at the moment, especially in rural areas 🙁
A phone box in a slightly happier state next week!
Cosy evenings
Two miles this morning…
…and I’m feeling really happy with my running this week – I was a bit concerned at the weekend because my legs were feeling really stiff and didn’t seem to be easing off, but they’re doing a lot better after a few days of recovery runs. Another two miles tomorrow before building back up over the weekend.
I was mostly doing day job work today, but I also spent some time making plans for house decor. The frames arrived for a large wall project I’m going to be working on over the next few weeks – I just need to wait for the photos I ordered from Freeprints so I can get on with things! Unfortunately the photo prints are being sent via Royal Mail (see Thursday’s post for my current woes on that subject), and we haven’t had a delivery on our street since Saturday. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
I did, however, put up a framed print that has been sitting around upstairs for the two and a half years since we moved in. One step closer to covering up our horrible magnolia walls (they will all get painted or wallpapered eventually, but it’s going to take a long time).
I am properly enjoying my evenings in now that autumn is officially here (meteorologically speaking). I’ve got the incense and candles going on the hearth (need to stock up!) and am appreciating the earlier darkness. I know a lot of people miss summer when it’s gone but I am not one of them – I’ve been looking forward to this time for months.
Hoping for another productive day tomorrow… and maybe another item up on the wall!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Rizzle Kicks – ‘Down With The Trumpets’
Sacre – ‘The London Marathon’
Jared Emerson-Johnson – ‘New Location Unlocked [Midtown Remix]’
Best day
Another recovery mile this morning…
…followed by a nice walk in the early September sunshine. The first of September is one of my favourite days of the year – it’s the start of meteorological autumn, my favourite season, and of the part of the year starting with ‘-ber’ – the best four months of all. This autumn will probably feel a bit different, just as this spring and this summer felt a bit different, but I’m hopeful that the magic of the season will still be there. I’m still running a GNR, even if it’s virtual; the BBC are doing a truncated and socially-distanced Strictly series (the first participants are being announced tonight!); and of course no pandemic can stop me from binge-watching horror films and eating all the Hallowe’en chocolate during October!
I’m also excited about my 24-hour London Marathon challenge in October, which will keep my training focused for another month or so (Geth and I are also booked for an actual live race – the North Tyneside 10k – on the 18th of October, but we haven’t heard yet if it’s going ahead or not…).
Lots of other hopes and ambitions for the autumn months, including house decor (a few bits and pieces arriving this week!), writing (I have three potential projects for NaNoWriMo) and coding (I can’t decide which game to work on next, but I would like to release at least another two this year).
It should be a good autumn, even if it’s a quiet one. I might even make an effort to go find a Bonfire Night fireworks display this year (I usually can’t be bothered!).
In the shorter term, it looks like I’ll be fairly busy with day job work over the next few weeks, so September will probably fly by… as usual!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Jared Emerson-Johnson – ‘New Location Unlocked [Midtown Remix]’
Resting… mostly
A nice recovery mile (and a half) today…
…and other than some gentle yoga, that was it for today’s exercise, as I managed to get everything I needed for my online game during my run. This week is going to be relatively low-mileage running-wise (though there may be a few long-ish walks depending on where my online game tokens land), as I’m trying to taper as much as possible before the Virtual GNR in a couple of weeks’ time.
It’s a bank holiday here and also my usual day off, so I’m just finishing off some admin before I get into some videogames for the evening.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Abba – ‘I Have A Dream’
RED day 243
Today’s earworm playlist:
Traditional – ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’
Voltaire – ‘The Vampire Club’
Kiki Dee – ‘Star’
Weekend dozing plans
A very early four-miler in the rain this morning…
…because I woke up at six and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I thought I might as well go for my run. It was absolutely chucking it down and it took me about two hours afterwards to stop shivering (this process involved putting the fire on in August BECAUSE OF COURSE). It’s brightened up nicely since, so I kind of wish I’d slept longer… which is the opposite of my usual sleep frustration!
I was still a bit upset this morning about the ongoing postal issues detailed yesterday (as well as some other stuff I can’t mention here) but at least waking up early meant that I had a productive morning. I managed to get most things done for the day by mid-afternoon so that I could get in the weekend mood early. The weekend will involve a lot of videogames and hopefully a lot of sleep.
I’ll post my running vlogs as usual over the weekend, and will be back for another update on Monday.
Today’s earworm playlist:
REM – ‘Losing My Religion’
Voltaire – ‘The Vampire Club’