Not on foot, but verbally.
After my very enjoyable week off at the end of October (which followed immediately on from a visit from the police politely asking me to remove the “cops” section of the flickr account) the clocks went back and Mondays to Fridays meant leisure time darkness. Now I’m not depressed by this, I enjoy the change of seasons, but it does vastly curtail my opportunities for my basic “point and shoot” photography (which is all I am capable of, anyway).
November and December have been months of utilitarian routine. Up at 06.00 hrs on Mondays to Fridays to do the usual ablutions and have breakfast and a stint on the internet before catching the 07.35 train for my 32 minute trundle to work. Actually I enjoy a very civilised commute – usually on time – always get a seat – mostly travel with friends. Then follows at 7 hour and 36 minute stint of dealing with the general public on the telephone in a call centre (a job that I have done since March 1995) with no ambitions but a precious degree of freedom and valuable perks. Then the trundle home again on the 16.39 (in the dark) to turn on the tv and partly watch and listen to “The Weakest Link” while I make dinner. Then it’s the news and the regional news (or sometimes Eggheads) before nestling in front of the computer or settling down with maps or a book. Sometimes with music playing, sometimes not.
Noticed with some degree of horror this Autumn that clothes were starting to become tight around the girth. I have put on one and a half stone since the Spring. Excessive alcohol consumption (the routine of picking up a bottle of wine on the way home from work and drinking it before bedtime was, undoubtedly, to blame). Urgent measures, commencing on Monday 15th December have been introduced in order to break the cycle of drinking every evening and curtailing that activity to weekends only. We’ll have to see what happens but I can already report much better sleeping patterns (and notably fresher breath!). As far the the girth is concerned – well, that might take considerably longer to improve!
