Weeknotes #79: Better at pub quizzes and a surprise

Week commencing Monday, 22 July 2024

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This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 6/7 and Move 6/7. (86%. Morning walks: 0/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Plant diversity: 35. Total steps: 56,048

The pub quiz is getting better. We were joint fifth, but with just two more points—if we’d been less gung-ho in the wipeout round—we’d have been second.
The Art of Banksy, a gallery on Charing Cross Road, is really good. We went when it was quiet, and you could spend plenty of time looking at the work. There’s a lot of social commentary in those pictures—what will people of the future think of us?
When we got home, PY randomly looked at Paris 2024 Paralympic tickets for a date in September. Now we have a Eurostar booked and a day off work.
On Friday, we went to the Love Motion festival at Crystal Palace to see Grace Jones, who was brilliant as always. There were delays getting in, and Róisín Murphy cancelled, so we mainly sat for four hours listening to DJs before the main act. Luckily, we were early into the venue and grabbed a seat for much of the waiting time.
Related, we didn’t get to see the Olympic opening ceremony. I thought we would catch up at some point. We haven’t so far.
I was up early on Saturday for a surprise trip for Dad’s birthday. Although the restaurant hadn’t recorded our booking, they made it work. A nice barbecue in the evening involved a croquet game with my niece. The 7-year-old beat me.
On the train home, I finished reading Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart. I’d recommend it, but it’s a bit of an indictment of the British political machine..