Week commencing Monday, 15 January 2024
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 7/7; Exercise 4/7 and Move 6/7. (81%). Morning walks: 1/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Plant diversity: 43. Total steps: 58,211
Life
- I didn’t know that: the book on British Rail that I have been reading says that Upper Crust, a sandwich retailer seen at most big mainline stations, was a concept developed by British Rail when it was still a nationalised operation.
- Related, p256, “Staff, however, when travelling around the network were entitled to reductions at station buffets for tea and sandwiches, but oddly not coffee, which at the time was perceived as a foreigners’ beverage.”
- Time Traveller’s Wide, Apollo Theatre. I hadn’t seen the book. The stage effects are good but I can’t remember a single tune.
- Thursday red wine at an overpriced bar. More at a cheaper place. Wrong train back meant a late-night trip across the bridge to the return platforms at Surbiton.
- My healthy eating habit goes well when I am at home and not well Friday night at Compton St. Brasserie (too warm inside); Saturday Lunch at The Rushmere (great soft shell crab but service was patchy) and dinner at The Ivy with a view of Tower Bridge (lovely classic menu).
- Sunday evening, Elvis was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. And the audience were up for it too!
Media
- Zoe: Why unhealthy carbs are making you sick. Eat better.
- ITV: The Pembrokeshire Murders. A great true crime drama where you know who the murderer is in the first half hour but they need the rest of the time to prove it.
- The New Yorker reporting on a British story I hand’t heard: The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library
- Industry news in The Guardian: Jobs will be next’: TV ad slump prompts more fear among staff
- Freshman grew up in Telford: Crunch & Roll: Nigel Freshman