Day: 20 April 2025

Weeknotes #117: A family Easter

Enjoying walks, family moments, reading, and fun outdoor activities.

Week commencing Monday, 14 April 2025

A tranquil view of Colemere, a natural lake in Shropshire, surrounded by mixed woodland in early spring. Young trees with fresh green foliage frame the calm blue water, whilst reeds grow along the shoreline. Fallen branches and natural debris are visible in the foreground, with dense forest creating a peaceful backdrop.
Eater at Colemere

Quantified Self

  • This week: Stand 3/7; Exercise 2/7 and Move 3/7. (38%). Morning walks: 0/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Total steps: 37,770

Life

  • My quantified self metrics are some of the lowest I’ve had. This cough is affecting me more than I care to admit. I need to get out and about for some exercise.
  • The simplified version of the software, for speed, is far from simple, but we should continue to push for it.
  • I finally photographed my 2024 reading list. The books can now be rehomed, although some will remain by the bookshelf, waiting for a charity shop run.
  • I made the wrong call when the train was delayed. We should have taken the risk of the short interchange at Birmingham International, as we would have made it, and it would have arrived first. I’ll try the delay repay, but I bet they see this train still ran.
  • Attingham’s Easter egg trail was a lot of fun. I wore paper bunny ears all the way around. The lady who said to me that we have to do these things for our grandchildren did not make me feel young. The rest of the family laughed for the rest of the day.
  • My niece and nephew were braver on the climbing walls than I would have been. But I watched with a coffee and a flapjack and felt very safe.
  • The walk around Cole Mere was lovely. The Llangollen Canal looked very peaceful.

What Did I Miss?

Missing redesigns is one downside of reading sites via Bloglines.

Bloglines makes reading other sites quick and easy – as long as those sites provide a full RSS feed. I use it daily. However, you do miss site redesigns. Jase has had a minor change, which looks pretty good.

And just in case anybody is wondering about some of the design looking slightly strange here at Listen to Musak, well, it’s because I am doing some re-design work, and I’ve had to make some minor tweaks for the new design, which has thrown some of this design. If I were better at CSS, that shouldn’t be a problem, but I am not!

Of course, I’ve also found a good number of problems as I have been going through the site, which I am trying to fix as I go along, so hopefully, things will end up working better as well.