Up and running. Ish
It’s a month since I hurt my knee and whilst I’ve been active for most of that time, it’s only really the last week that I’ve done any running. Injury update On the whole, the…
Running
A post-lockdown catch-up
In many ways I wanted to have a little pause after the last of the lockdown narratives I’ve put together. Partly because there was a risk of sounding like a stuck record in a virtual…
Can we have our nice weather back? Please?
In true British style, it was the weather that formed the main talking point this week. For many weeks we’ve had pretty decent and warm weather for long stretches. Which, in the locked-down world was…
The start of summer 2020
Hasn’t the time shifted by this year? Despite many people’s lives seemingly being put on hold due to the COVID-19 it seems bizarre that in the last week we had passed by the Summer Solstice…
90 days, recovery and return of the tortoises
90 days since lockdown Today is the 90th since lockdown was imposed in the UK on 23 March 2020. As of this weekend it appears that the Government have reduced the risk level in the…
The week up to Day 76: all change
This week hasn’t been the smoothest of lockdown. I think that’s probably the best thing I can say about this week. And yes a few things have changed. Website changes I’ve been a bit concerned…
69 Days and the UK lockdown loosens a bit more
It’s been another warm and dry week in the UK (and especially Manchester where that ball of fire in the sky isn’t seen as often as it might be). The weather has been great to…
Day 62: another week in lockdown
After the near disaster of a week that I covered in my last post, this week has been a lot more sedate. And hasn’t involved the bike at all. I’ve also decided to change things…
Day 55 in lockdown; the end of a not-so great week
It all goes wrong I guess it was bound to happen eventually and things would unravel, at least to some extent. And it was this week where that happened. The week started off on a…
48 days in – UK lockdown update
These weekly updates seem to come around more rapidly than they should. Today is the 48th day since the lockdown was imposed in the UK. Aside from the lack of work (and thus me being…