Given that The Blood Donor episode of Hancock's Half Hour is almost 24 years older than me she might have had a point.
I was getting a blood test earlier, and the nurse was explaining that they needed to take more that usual.
Being the witty and original person that I am I exclaimed "that's very nearly a armful!"
Her response was that I'm too young to know that.
My marathon has now been postponed until the 31st of May, I already had plans to walk 100 miles that weekend so now I need to workout if they will work concurrently or consecutively...
I retired from competitive politics at the end of 2019, but since about last March I've been getting regular phone calls every month or so from different people (none of whom I think ever voted for me) questioning my resolve to stay retired.
Eleven years ago today I contested my first election, and gained 30 votes!
Since then I've stood a few more times, and picked up an additional 3,900 votes.
Never did win a seat though.
I got into an impromptu race earlier with another runner who just happened to be heading the same direction as me.
I lost the race because he was a good eight seconds a minute faster than me.
There is no moral to this story, I just want to see who I can annoy by using *seconds per minute* as a measurement.
There are 69 cities in the UK, and in the before time I've drank in about 50 of them; now I'm trying to think of a more wholesome challenge to take part in once we are safe to travel again.
I've just accidentally purchased a #pinephone!
Today I completed #beyondexams #becs #HG2 "Log contacts with amateur radio stations in three of the ‘home’ countries" all on 60m FT8
First I worked a GI station, followed by a G4 and G0, and then an MM0 and a GM0.
About 24 hours since being enrolled on the #beyondexams program I've completed my first activity #HG4 "Log fifty contacts using digital data modes on any band."
Entirely on #FT8 as I've done many times before, but mostly using 30 and 60 meters which are new bands to me.
I suspect this may have been one of the easier tasks.
Earlier today I discovered the RSGB's Beyond Exams Club Scheme (https://rsgb.org/main/beyond-exams-building-experience/club-scheme/) that lists 23 activities to encourage being more active in amateur radio.
I have already completed 3 of them this year, and in the absence of parkrun, I might try seeing how many more I can accomplish this year. Some of them should be relativity simple, others like writing usable software less so, but lets see if I can complete 10 of them.
I entered my first ham radio contest today (RSGB Hope FT4), considering I only have 20 and 40 meters, and only 5 watts, and a washing line in place of an antenna I'm quite pleased I even managed 6 contacts, at one point I thought I had stalled at three.
@tony if you are still looking to join a running club for parkrunning might I suggest this one ...
https://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=30568&eventdate=2020-03-14
Given that I gave up running after 12 miles yesterday, now seems as good a time as any to ask people to sponsor me to run 26.2 miles ...
Yesterday I ran my fastest half-marathon in over three years, also my second half-marathon in over three years.
Today I entered my 2nd race of the year, so unless the fates have other plans, on Saturday I'll be racing 4.37 times further than I did back in January.
Today I calculated that is I run just under 10K every day for the rest of the year my kilometrage for the year would be 2020!
Fortunately I work in miles not kilometers so I'm not tempted to attempt such a stunt - although an average of 4.083 miles each day would see me reach 2020 kiloyards in 2020.
- wobsite
- https://mark.beech.org.uk
- xmpp
- mark@beech.org.uk
Joined Jun 2020
