Week commencing Monday, 2 February 2026
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 6/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 4/7. (62%). Morning walks: 0/4. Office days 1/5. Total steps: 41,471. 15.3 hours in meetings.
Life
- I was at home for much of the week. I went to the office once. I am not sure I left the house on weekdays other than for a small shopping run. It rained a lot.
- Related, they’re still working on the water pipes in the street. Their digging has blocked a storm drain. I have to leap puddles to cross the road.
- Relatedly related, I don’t leap well, and I discovered my shoes are not waterproof.
- We got a gigantic hot cross bun this week. It wasn’t quite as good as I’d hoped.
- Food-related, on Tuesday my Vietnamese pho had been sitting on the hob for several days. I survived its consumption.
- Sunday, to London Bridge Station for a tour, where it ceased to be somewhere to pass through and became something to look at. The tour focused on the station and its immediate surroundings: the arrival of competing lines, the coexistence of two stations, and the long process that eventually fused them into the sprawling place we know now. Very well done.
Media
- I watched, more or less, the entire season 4 of Bosch in a binge this week. It might explain why there’s not a lot else to say.
- I also discovered there were a few episodes of Love, Victor I hadn’t watched, so I finished them. Love, Victor seemed a little too neatly tied up at the end. I suppose that’s good for the kind of show it was. It’s a shame they didn’t take it for another couple of series.
- We watched an episode of Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts. It has a lot about the Roman Empire and is presented by Alice Roberts. There’s really not much train in it.
- Related, the episode focused on Pompeii, which looked absolutely amazing. Even though it’s being horrendously overrun by tourists, it seems like a place we should visit.