Week commencing Monday, 30th March 2026
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 5/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 3/7. (52%). Morning walks: 0/3. Office days: 1/4. Total steps: 39,476. 13.4 hours in meetings.
Life
- Middling at the pub quiz this month. Let’s move on.
- Recording a message for the West Shropshire Talking Newspaper took me a lot longer than I anticipated because every room echoed too much.
- After-work beers were nice on Thursday, but it was also nice that they finished early and I could get home to pack.
- If you don’t ask, and because I did, they let me on an earlier train than the one I’d booked on Good Friday. Engineering works meant I had to go via Birmingham Moor Street station.
- Friday, Saturday, and Sunday lunches were all in restaurants around Shrewsbury. All different and all very good.
- I found things in the loft that I had not looked at for more than thirty years. Fascinating.
- On Easter Sunday, an egg hunt around the garden, and then the Easter trail around Attingham Park.
- Exciting: Artemis II launched successfully, sending astronauts on a crewed flyby of the Moon for the first time in decades.
Media
- Of interest: Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right?
- Full Disclosure: The live edition in which James O’Brien charts Gary Lineker’s extraordinary career.
- Game Changers Radio: A life on the air, the Kyle Sandilands story and Inside the breakdown of Kyle and Jackie O
- YouTube: Why Waterstones Chose the Customer & Won and Tom Scott’s I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that’s okay.