Gnaws
Not so much a train of thought, more a replacement bus service of godless waffle, jokes and memes with a snifter of wine and craft-beer related stuff on the side..
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Kernel TTO
Friday, April 26, 2024
Still on the tread-mill
So, I made it! Since my last post on this subject I've passed the 2000 successive days of completing the full set of exercise goals in my Apple fitness app. That's roughly five and a half years of dedication to achieving a minimum level of steps, calories and minutes of exercise every day.
I must say, as might be expected, doing this has become somewhat of a "habit" these days and the daily programme has evolved to becoming 30 minutes of weights, 20 minutes of yoga followed by a brisk 8k walk (sub 10 minute km's, usually around midday) I think the hardest thing about this schedule is simply getting a coat on and going out for a walk when it's hissing down with rain and blowing a hooligan, which let's face it, has been an alarmingly high number of days so far this year.
Friday Smirk
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Life returns
I've blogged a couple of times now about a little pond that I walk past almost every day. I'm not sure it's a natural pond as it first appeared as a sales gimmick for a housing development (outside the sales office), then a couple of years later (once all the houses were sold) it was completely dug up and the plastic liner removed. Six months after that the water had returned and ever since then (about a 18 months ago) it's been regenerating itself with plants, reeds and depth.
I noticed today that the little pond had some higher order life going on too, a family of ducklings (four of them) have moved in and judging by the size of them they must have hatched in the pond somewhere (although it's hard to see where, it's so small!), anyway ducks means that there's enough plant and aquatic life to sustain larger animals and that probably also means fish eggs being transported from other ponds via birds feet, I can't wait to see more critters on my daily walks as things develop.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Strange Times
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Earth Day
What with Earth day being yesterday and all, here's a nice photo of Mount Fuji with a shooting star, the patience required to get shots like this is slightly mind boggling..