Week commencing Monday, 25 December 2023
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 7/7; Exercise 2/7 and Move 3/7. (57%, blame festivities). Plant diversity: 21. Total steps: 45,792
Life
- Merry Christmas. I hope your festivities were fun. I got a negative COVID test on Christmas Day. Lovely present that meant Christmas visits happened on Boxing Day.
- Will Doctor Who’s The Goblin Song become a thing? I fear it might.
- Took Mum & Dad to see the London Christmas Lights. Like us, lots of people thought the 139 a better option than the expensive open-top tour. Carnaby Street was rammed.
- Tonight we are having people for a New Year party. I’m hoping that it’s not too late to bed. Happy New Year!
Media
- Finished reading Death and Papa Noël: a short story from the Follet Valley Mystery series. It was a fun little read but it wasn’t a complex story. A nice way to compete by Goodreads Reading Challenge 2023.
- The Vera Christmas Special 2023 didn’t have a story line about it being Kenny Doughty’s last show which I found surprising.
- While watching BBC1’s Murder Is Easy, I became obsessed with how Fitzwilliam managed to carry all those amazing outfits in such a small suitcase. The immaculately pressed Tuxedo being just one of them.
Archive
To save the links getting lost in the future I checked the Internet Archive to see what they had saved for the posts linked here. YouTube and Instagram links don’t seem to archive well so I don’t list them. If the source above no longer works, these should.
- Doctor Who’s The Goblin Song lyrics
- Goodreads: Death and Papa Noël; 2023 Reading Challenge
- The 139 route sees lights on The Strand, Regent Street and Oxford Street.
- Vera: The Rising Tide – Christmas Special 2023
- BBC iPlayer: Murder Is Easy