Week commencing Monday, 10 November 2025
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 5/7; Exercise 4/7 and Move 4/7. (62%). Morning walks: 0/3 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 2/5. Total steps: 62,071
Life
- Monday was pub quiz. If you recall, ninth is the place we aim for because the prize is good. We were joint ninth this week and lost at the tie-break (answer: I Will Survive).
- Trains and tubes home from the office were overcrowded on Wednesday and Thursday. Despite interesting days in the office, the unpleasant commute makes me want to stay home.
- But the train to The Island was not too busy, we made the connection and had a lovely Chinese takeaway.
- Friday was rainy, but we avoided storm Claudia, which didn’t make it quite this far south.
- Saturday was clearer for the Christmas lights switch-on in Newport, followed by my first mulled wine of the year back in Ryde.
- And on Sunday, after a walk and Mexican breakfast in Cowes, I broke my rule about not running for a bus when we had just three minutes to make it from the Chain Bridge to the bus stop. We made it.
- Another BBC Director General has gone. Nice piece from David Lloyd, “His job is too much for just about any human being, because the BBC itself is now unmanageable”.
- Related, “The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before”.
- Is road pricing coming? I’m intrigued by this discussion about the window of opportunity to make a change.
Media
- We watched the Only Murders in the Building series five finale. Although it’s all a bit contrived by the end, I think the series may have redeemed itself in my eyes.
- OK, I got hooked into the last-but-one series of Slow Horses. Although I think a few things weren’t wrapped up by the end, it didn’t spoil it. I was hooked. Should I buy the books?
- And I am back into the groove with the Game Changers podcast thanks to a long train journey on Sunday evening.