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I should probably give up the pretence of posting here weekly, since I have failed to do so for five months. I’ll keep to an ad-hoc schedule instead, but I’ll carry on with the funky number title thing for kicks.

Brief highlights of the past five months:

  • I went to Louth for political purposes.
  • I’ve made two lame efforts at parkrun. Unfortunately, I don’t operate with much enthusiasm on Saturday mornings, so I haven’t made further progress to date. It should have been three efforts, but one attempt was postponed because of bad weather.
  • I went to Portsmouth for work purposes. It was a pretty pointless affair, to be honest.
  • I got the rona, so I spent 10 days working from home instead of the 8 days working from home that I would have ordinarily done. On the plus side, I now have free reign of Europe until Easter Sunday. There’s a couple of trips to Ireland already booked for before then.
  • I went to Blackpool for a bit of a social with some former colleagues.
  • I upped the gig count for 2021 by three in the space of a week. That makes four gigs in the year, all to see the same band.
  • Some family members got the rona at Christmas, so I stayed at home instead. I probably enjoyed it more than going to the family.
  • I went away to Whinfell for New Year, where I rode on a Segway. Actual footage here.
  • My social media abstinence has failed yet again, so I’m back on Shitter, Fecalbook and Instatwat. I’m such a slag. It’s /aedeyes on all three if you’re that bothered.

That about sums up the end of another crappy year. Here’s to another, but hopefully less crappy.

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  • Following Doc Rob’s repairs, the hedge is now fully pruned. This will hopefully keep the letting agent happy for a few months. Maybe, in exchange, they will come and paint my hallway?
  • Twitter, or more precisely the users of Twitter, began to annoy me. Again. I have therefore semi-abandoned my unadvertised account – in that I have logged out and removed apps/bookmarks/linked functions but not fully deactivated. I may return in future, but that is unlikely. Short messages will continue to appear occasionally on Mastodon, although I have deactivated the Twitter Crossposter service.
  • Following some encouragement, I’ve restarted C25K running/jogging/walking quickly. I managed 5K in 45’22”, which would indicate that five months of not doing any training has had no ill-effect on pre-slack times.
  • Not much else has occurred. The country re-opens for business somewhat on Wednesday coming, so hopefully some occurrences may occur in the next few weeks.

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Following last week’s credit card farce, I applied for another – Halifax Clarity – and was surprised to be accepted at the same limits as Tandem. There’s no cashback, which doesn’t really bother me, and no foreign exchange fees, which I do need. Result.

Started doing Couch to 5K, the main aim being to be in a fit state to do a Parkrun. I’ve learnt so far that where I live is very hilly, and I definitely have calf muscles.

Sunday saw another visit to Newark. Unlike the previous attempt, the Castle Barge was open but with a rather uninteresting beer range. Inevitably, I ended up in Just Beer instead.