I’ve been so preoccupied, pottering around the living room sorting some bits and pieces out, that I totally lost track of the time. I’m supposed to get this blog done by midnight otherwise I can’t click the button in Lift.

Which makes it sound like I’m a character in Lost. The list of tasks that I try to do each day — with which I measure if I’ve inched forward just a tiny bit. They’re a rag bag of habits at the moment. Review tasks, do some exercise, inbox zero, walk 30 minutes, take medicine, write blog, meditate. None of which relate to the day job, but they force me to build some regularity around the day.

Inbox zero slips from time to time, but I usually get to tick it off… whereas meditate hasn’t had a look in for a while. It might be time to retire meditate to the great archive of unembraced proto-habits. But I like the idea of it, and so it stays there — reminding me that I should give it another go sometime. Oh well…

The day has been fine. Nothing much to report, but I’ll try: the kids are well, school seems ok, work was dull and email related, messaged Jude who seems fine, piano and guitar lessons ok and Lily even practiced her trumpet. All good.

With the guitar I’m trying to get my head around a piece called Mohair Mountain which I’ve never heard before. It’s all 4/4 then 7/8 timing with lots of twiddling and nothing where you can learn a quick riff and then repeat ad nauseum. It’s challenging, but I wish it had more of a melody. The only videos of it are people practicing (which is understandable). Here’s one:

I took a load of old cardboard to the tip today. We’d collected so much of it that I thought that it might be a fire hazard soon. So I picked the kids up from school in the car and whisked them off to the tip. Double bonus for the children – no walking and they get to lob bottles and cardboard into the recycling. Apparently this is the next best thing to playing on the xbox.

The walking had to be done at 8pm, once we’d eaten and everything was sorted. I pottered down High Lane towards the new development in Burscough, back again and down to Netto to grab a couple of jellies (for the lunch boxes!) The three minute walk to the shops took a nice round 32 minutes. So that was 3.53km at a pace of 9:04 min/km. If I hadn’t been dawdling on the way out to Burscough I reckon I could have cracked 9 min/km. Next time perhaps.