Today we went out for a read across the water to the Fish Quay and back….
Annoyingly, I paused the recording and missed bits out, which is a shame, as it was easy more than 10 miles…
Category: Homelife
And now with added padded shorts….
So it seems we are back on it then, and aiming to get out every night. Tonight was a quick jaunt around to the local parks, keeping off the road if we can.
Just need to keep it up as they say….
Cheers
Stephen
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky, Then like my dreams they fade and die. Fortune’s always hiding, I’ve looked everywhere.
So Covid is still with us R is less than one, so there is more relaxation and now we’ve got a concept of bubbles. Social groups in same cases where people can help each other. I hope, that as ever, the public continue to behave (which in general they really have done) and the lid is kept on this thing as much as we can. Talking to a few people the bubble is giving is giving hope and happiness, so let’s go with it.
In my little world, the two of us continue to work away – me from home, her part home/hospital. We’ve continued to do shopping for the parents, but I think the team is now right to back that off, pending another wave. If it is, we will then do what we can.
That’s it for now, hope you like the new theme, I’ve gone basic a bit.
Cheers
Stephen
Sorry for the Jimmy Nail…..
So that’s another bike ride complete, as we map our way around Hebburn and Jarrow. At the start of the week, I thought about we might make it to South Shields by the end of the week 10 mile (ish) return. I thought it would be a push but it seems not.
Electric is making all the difference, and for the past two days its been 6 miles, and its been ok. Today with the wind was more of an effort, but we are just in week one.
This is harder than it should be!
So I’ve already posted about the bike, and I might have mentioned its bigger than I expected, bigger to the extent it doesnt work well in my shed! I’ve been looking at storage and its no fun. Nothing really works, so I’ve ended up with another shed.
I’d prefered something different, but it will have to do. I even went for a ride to the park to pop the bike next the bike store I liked and nope, not even close.
So, I find my self sat here for another week of working from home and my mind has gone off on a little wander. Now, its not because there is nothing to do, far from it.
Whilst the image is representative, it’s definetly not true. No Mac, No clear desk, no coffee… no plant… the list goes on.
But, it’s meant to represent working from home, which is the well and truely the new norm and it continues to the be the case, with no real end in sight. Best guess now, for me, September or later as not essential and I can work from home, but there would need to be changes, like moving upstairs etc to work. I would like the dining table back I think!
But, to be fair, its been a workable solution to two of us working from home and its ok. But it will probably move on.
Cycling continues this past week and extended the range I’ve been doing with each new ride which is pleasing. I shall continue to build from the starting point and see where it goes. The other half has now also purchased a bike to so we will be able to go out for a wander together soon.
Enough for one day.
Cheers
So I did!
I’d been considering it for a while, and waited, and then planned it and applied for it, then ordered it, then it arrived…. and wouldn’t go in the car. Wheels off and away we go….
Just a short ride, but a chance to try out the bike and I survived, I will look to do more each day!
On staying clean and deodorant, and it made me think…
But before we go there, remember stay home, stay safe and protect your health services where ever you may be. There is talk of lifting the Corona / Covid-19 isolation/stay at home, but lets not all rush out there at once and then run the risk of a second, third or fourth wave. We’ve in the main done well and kept safe, don’t mess that up now…. please.
So where were we? That’s right I’d read that many people have given up on staying clean, showering, deodorant etc as they were not in work. Whilst I initially laughed it off, I then thought, oh actually there is some truth in this. 2 days since the last shower, recycled tshirt…. oh dear god what savage have I become?
So I hit the shower hard today, getting to all those hard to reach places! I even used the moisturising shower gel that leaves the bath extra, extra slippery. This will do no doubt come back to hurt me later when I slip in fall. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve not become some “stinking hobo” over night, and apologies to those hobos who don’t smell, but some times social isolation does funny things…..
For the rest of the day, it’s house work and tidy up, whilst the gammon slow cooks for the next 4 hours…. its already been in for the same.
Catch you laters.
Sometimes, you work on things, make progress and then someone decides to go in the opposite direction and it seems a poor idea.
Vent Over…
So then welcome to another week of what now passes as normal. It’s been busy, and lots was achieved today which helps. I also made it out for a walk which is something, I’ve been promising my self to get sorted.
I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike
Queen Song Lyric (done from memory so apologies if wrong)
I’ve been thinking of a bike for a while, but it never quite worked out, but its done. I’ve applied via the works cycle scheme, so I just need to wait as it goes through the process. I suspect I wont be the only one and its quite a common purchase. From my work from home position, I’ve seen lots of cyclists go by. Not withstanding the lack of bike, I’ve also had issues get a helmet to go on my big head. Suggestions to me please….
Outside of this life plods on and we’ve been out in the garden attempting to kill off some of the weeds but thats a bigger work in progress. This isn’t being helped with a full green gardening bin, and no service to empty the dam thing.
Oh well.
Enough from me.
Cheers
S.