…and my deliberately slow easy pace certainly felt suited to my still-half-asleep state! I’ve had another fairly slow day – bit of day job work, bit of admin, but mostly dozing and reading. Hoping to be a bit more awake tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
WG Snuffy Walden – ‘The West Wing (Main Theme)’ Justin Timberlake – ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’
Another phone box from Mum and Dad’s Scottish adventures… but, somewhat appropriately for Hallowe’en month, there’s something a bit spooky going on with it!
Dad reports that there is (or was in August) still a phone inside the box, but also a ‘closing soon’ notice 🙁 Unfortunately it seems that this box will be disappearing shortly, along with about 90% of other rural boxes in the UK. It sort of feels like we’re documenting the end of an era at the moment.
That’s not the spooky thing though!
If you click the Google Street View image linked above, you’ll see the same image I saw when searching for the box:
My immediate thought was that the box must have been repainted at some point. However, I’ve never seen a box repainted this shade of green in the UK – it’s apparently quite common for old phone boxes in the Republic of Ireland, but I was surprised to see one in the south-west of Scotland.
…the phone box is suddenly red again – and it can’t be a repaint, because the exact same couple are still walking past the phone box with their dogs!
I was a bit freaked out by this and took a closer look. In the second picture with the green box, it also appears that the lady’s face has also turned green, making her look like the Witch of the West from The Wizard Of Oz (complete with Toto no less!). A similar thing has happened to a wooden shed and gate if you rotate the third image to look further up the road. As such, Geth and I have concluded that it must be some kind of strange effect from the camera used by the Google cars.
It’s still pretty spooky though!
We’ll stay in Scotland next week for another (hopefully less freaky) phone box.
…and I’m glad I got them done because I really did not want to leave the house this morning. The weather was fine but I felt lethargic and tired and could easily have gone back to sleep, despite the fact that I didn’t wake up till 10am.
10am has been my usual wake-up time for a week or two now. I’m not happy about it as I prefer to be awake a couple of hours earlier than that. I like to have an hour in bed after waking up (for caffeinating and social-media-reading purposes), so if I don’t wake up till 10am then I don’t get my run finished till lunchtime and I don’t start work until early afternoon… which means I’m working all evening, and I would rather that not be the case.
I’m not staying up particularly late (bedtime is around midnight), but my body has decided it needs ten hours of sleep a night at the moment, and I think it’s important to wake up naturally if you have the luxury to do so, so it is what it is right now. I’ve always been a bit of a hibernator and it seems I’ve started early this year. Trying not to succumb to an unplanned afternoon nap right now.
I have managed to catch up with a bit of writing today, so that’s something. Same again tomorrow I hope.
I did a fairly tough interval session this morning…
…and I’ve been ravenous ever since. I need to start organising a more substantial lunch for Tuesdays! Geth and I are trying to shift the lockdown weight at the moment but I need to balance that with fuelling for runs as well.
I’ve just been getting on with work and household admin this afternoon. Accounts done, diary done, car MOT booked for next week. It’s a bit dull but a lighter work week gives me the opportunity to get stuff like that out of the way. Hoping to have a bit more time for writing towards the end of the week as well.
Looking forward to a quiet evening with TV and/or YouTube videos. I could do with switching my brain off for a bit.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Benny Goodman – ‘Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing)’ Cast of Moulin Rouge! – ‘El Tango De Roxanne’ Sacre – ‘The London Marathon [Theme From The Trap]’
…which I’m going to take as a sign I worked hard on my running over the weekend. Hopefully I’ll have recovered a bit of energy by tomorrow’s interval session!
I’m struggling quite a lot with anxiety today. I think I’m just getting a bit worn down by all the small stresses of the last few weeks and months. I need to find some forms of escapism, possibly via getting back to my writing and videogaming again. Geth is playing a tabletop RPG online with friends this evening so doing some of my own gaming might be a good idea.
I’m waiting for work to come in at the moment so I think my non-running activities this week will mainly be admin, house sorting, and trying not to worry about stuff.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Ultra Naté – ‘Free’ Cast of The Greatest Showman – ‘The Greatest Show’
Duran Duran – ‘The Reflex’ Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett – ‘The Monster Mash’ Kate Bush – ‘Wuthering Heights’ Duran Duran – ‘Come Undone’ Evanescence – ‘Bring Me To Life’ Assemblage 23 – ‘The Noise Inside My Head’ Queen – ‘Another One Bites The Dust’
…as it was a rest day on my plan. After three days in a row of slightly longer runs it really did feel like a rest day too! Longer runs again over the next two days.
I’m excited about the weekend as I’m going to be wearing and taking pictures of all the old clothes I’m selling. Geth is helping me with the photography process so I think we’ll both need to try and avoid the ‘ohhh… this one looks nice, maybe I/you should keep it’ justifications. All these clothes have been sitting ignored in the garage for two years for a reason!
I’ll post running vlogs over the weekend as usual, and will be back with a full update on Monday.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Mark Knopfler – ‘Local Hero’ Carl Orff – ‘Gassenhauer’ Queen – ‘One Vision’ The Carpenters – ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ Middle Of The Road – ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ They Might Be Giants – ‘Istanbul (Not Constantinople)’
…which I was a bit wary about when I saw it on my training plan as I prefer to go by distance, but it was fine.
After finishing off my day job work, I spent the afternoon decorating the house for Hallowe’en, as I want to be able to enjoy my decorations for a couple of weeks this year. This evening, Geth and I have been catching up with the recent Strictly ‘Best Of’ specials in preparation for the series proper starting this weekend!