Here’s the final box from Mum and Dad’s trip to the north of Scotland.
(Coordinates 58°05’27.5″N, 5°03’07.7″W.)
You can’t really see through the grimy glass, but this one still has a phone in it! Getting rarer and rarer to find intact phones.
Here’s the final box from Mum and Dad’s trip to the north of Scotland.
(Coordinates 58°05’27.5″N, 5°03’07.7″W.)
You can’t really see through the grimy glass, but this one still has a phone in it! Getting rarer and rarer to find intact phones.
A day of mugginess, work, the soundtrack of Geth playing videogames and being a cat bed for next door’s cat. Feeling a bit out of sorts at the moment, which always tends to happen at this point in the summer.
On the plus side, I managed a run longer than a mile this morning, which is something! I’m still feeling a bit fatigued in that respect but the run did feel nice.
Another day of in-house sheltering. Today I have discovered that my house is really quite good at keeping the temperature down – it does feel a bit overly warm inside but it’s nothing compared to outside, which feels like the tropics at the moment. Meant to be even hotter tomorrow at 35°C – unheard of for Newcastle and should absolutely smash the temperature record here ?
Plenty to be getting on with inside anyway. Lots of day job work this week and some more boxes to sort out.
Other than a very early morning run I am not braving the heat outside for the next few days. I have started doing ‘house stuff’ again now that the months-long fog of game-making has lifted for a few weeks. I have many tens of boxes in the garage that need ‘sorting out’ and today I tackled the first of them. ‘Sorting out’ is a difficult job with my hoarding tendencies so it’s a slow process, but I do dream of having a non-crammed house some day.
I have also just prepped a ton of salad for the next few days. It’s normally not my favourite but it’s lovely in the hot weather.
Generally I consider the 7am (or sometimes 6:30am) alarm to be the worst thing about parkrun… but I was pretty glad to get my run done at 9am this morning given that it was already feeling uncomfortably hot by the time I was walking home at 9:45am!
I made a decision beforehand to take it easy today as I didn’t fancy pushing too hard in the warmer weather. I still managed my second fastest time since the hiatus (well, according to my watch – my official result was a few seconds slower), so I must be improving in some ways!
A bit of tourism for the next few weeks, but I should be back on the Moor before too long.
…and hoping to make it a long one if I can. Forecast is claiming super hot weather on Monday and Tuesday so it’d be nice just to doze. We’ll see what comes in with work next week.
Geth is on leave from this evening so it’ll be nice to have him home for a few weeks as well. It’d be good just to be quiet for a bit.
Another box from the north of Scotland today.
(Coordinates 57°81’96.6″N, 5°06’26.9″W.)
Another one that could do with a lick of paint… and a bit of TLC in general! No phone inside so maybe not long for this world 🙁
On my travels again today! Flying visit to Edinburgh as I still have my dentist there; Geth holding the fort at home again. Glad to be getting most of my summer train journeys out of the way while there still seems to be relatively little disruption!
Back home tomorrow for the start of a very quiet weekend.
Day in the house today so I’m doing a bit of tidying, have typed up the very beginning of a new game file and am trying not to spend too much time reading the news.
Running-wise the training plan has taken a back seat for the last week or so for a couple of reasons: (1) I still don’t feel fully recovered from Edinburgh and am a bit tired in general due to my new meds; and (2) the last few days have been way too hot to get any serious running done. Hoping the weather will cool down (and that life will calm down!) before too long.