The sling came off at the beginning of the month, so it was back to work. This meant a lot less time for reading, but I did still manage to read 10 books in the month, 2 of them non-fiction. There was also a lot less time spent watching television, but I did watch the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
July 2023
August 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on July 2023 · Life
July was a month of mixed fortunes. A month of profit and pain. After June broke my run of three months in a row of Premium Bond wins, I bounced right back in July with three wins that came to £175 in total. I was still glowing from that when I received a big gold […]
June 2023
July 5th, 2023 · Comments Off on June 2023 · Life, Music
After months of dreary rain, cold, and high winds, I finally found some days suitable for flying my drone. The first attempt was just me on my own, down at Wytch Cross to get the hang of it. As I managed that without any disasters, I went down to Arundel to meet up with our […]
Tags: Drones·Glastonbury·Medicine/Health·Motorbike·TV·YouTube
Avoidable deaths
June 26th, 2023 · Comments Off on Avoidable deaths · Life, Politics
This story caught my attention on the radio news this morning (“UK’s high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes”) and I think the headline is more than a bit misleading. Read a bit further and it says “The UK had one of the lowest levels of life expectancy – although the study acknowledged […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Flying High
June 4th, 2023 · Comments Off on Flying High · Life, Technology
Well I finally got round to getting my drone off the ground today. My drone app said that it was not good to fly, because of the wind speed, especially the gusts, but I just couldn’t wait any longer. Because of the no-fly zone around Gatwick I can’t fly in the back garden or over […]
May 2023
June 3rd, 2023 · 2 Comments · Life
I really should try to find the mental energy to write here more than once a month, but meanwhile here is a summary of the recently-finished May. It was a good month. Any month with three bank holidays in it can’t be anything other than a good month!
Tags: Medicine/Health·Motorbike·TV·Vinyl
April 2023
May 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on April 2023 · Life
With the days getting noticeably longer and it feeling like there were a few days without rain, I can only blame laziness for the fact that I walked a lot less in April than in March – nearly 60,000 few steps overall and only reached 10,000 steps on 3 days. As I only even got […]
March 2023
April 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on March 2023 · Life
Apparently the wettest March for a long time, and it felt like it. It was a relentlessly depressing dampness all the way through, but with sufficient breaks in the weather for me to get out a bit more – and at least it has been getting a bit warmer.
Not shopping locally
March 8th, 2023 · Comments Off on Not shopping locally · Life
The other day I realised that my slippers were falling apart. With all this working from home, combined with trying to stay in the warm as much as possible means that I get a lot more use out of slippers than in the past. After work yesterday I decided to go out and buy some […]
Tags: Shopping
February 2023
March 3rd, 2023 · Comments Off on February 2023 · Life
Another month where I didn’t do a lot or go out much – too bloody cold for me! I did actually drive the car for the first time in 2023 – only for about a mile to pick Jayne up from work, but it still thwarted my ambition to go a couple of whole months […]
