23 March 2016
A week and a half ago the Sony Lifelog app on my phone announced that I’d passed a milestone: 500,000 recorded steps.
Its not a massive total for the around 5-1/4 months I’ve been allowing the app to record my comings & goings. It averages less than 3,200 a day. But it means I’m on track for over a million in a year.
A step millionaire.
I’m wondering now what it would have been without the 2 days in London (>33,000) and without Ruby dog…
Thanks; to both bustling metropolis & our chomper.
22 March 2016
Assembling a new, glass-shelved TV stand is very much like making love to, er…
The hardest bit isn’t assembling the stand, a thing with pictogram instructions only - which suggests 2 people would be better at it than you.
The hardest bit isn’t manoeuvring the TV on top of it from the old, plainly-incompatible stand rescued when the previous, mammoth, CRT TV eventually met its maker (figuratively!)
The hardest part isn’t assembling the anti-tip safety strap behind the telly - which has been moved into a temporary but awkward-for-this-stage location.
No, the hardest part is figuring out which cable should be where to minimise the clutter from the myriad of modern device connections - clutter now painfully-obvious through clear glass.
I’d prepared, obviously, by disconnecting everything and laying it out around the room…
Useless.
So, in the time-honoured tradition of the British male when face-to-face with a certain defeat, I resorted to an anagram:
“Oh duck it, it’s goof enough!”
21 March 2016
My wife was watching TV earlier; Monty Don, the gardening programme host, mentioned a flower variety and I’m assuming a caption appeared onscreen.
A quote from her email:
“As soon as Monty Don said it I weed my pants laughing. And then I though of you x”
So…
Rubus cockburnianus.
Really.
It’s a bramble.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_cockburnianus
Do your own research. It’s real, not a ‘funny’ Wikipedia plant.
20 March 2016
As my youngest daughter started to read one of her homework reading assignment books, ‘Amazing Whales’, I have to admit I struggled mightily attempting descriptions before she got the book’s true facts.
It’s something we attempt every reading session; try to guess, then read, then debrief.
This time though one word in particular made me pause…
…and, silently, admit defeat.
- Easy to describe: Dolphin; Killer, Blue, Grey…
- Intermediate: Baleen, Beluga…
- Hard: Sperm…
Luckily my wife was out walking Ruby dog, otherwise it could have got rather messy.
In other news, Bob The Builder seems to have had a makeover for 2016.
Sacrilege!
20 March 2016
My girls and wife went out to the craft shop earlier, getting stuff to decorate their Easter bonnets. I jetwashed the patio - this time with the lance rather than the usual brush with rotating jets.
Not the best idea I’ve ever had; there was mud everywhere; along the path down the side of the house, on the walls, sheds, plastic wendy-house, in my shoes, socks, jeans and undies; there still is some along the side of the house.
And…
I flooded the utility room; the hose/tap adaptor is rubbish.
Thank goodness for fluffy towels!