I took as my starting point March 8th, 2020 - the day I started my daily blog to co-incide with news about the virus.
Very often I didn't record the actual distances but I have details of where we walked and have done rough calculations from that. I am continuing to record my steps until the year round and am well on course to hit the 1,000 mile mark. That's quite a figure and I'm very pleased with it.
But I intend keeping going and over the next year will be aiming for an average of four miles a day or around 1,500 miles. So far in the past year I have also recorded over 2.3 million steps. Walking every day has now become just part of the daily routine and it's a good habit to adopt. That distance and those steps doesn't include any day to day walking around the house, any gardening, any general walking when not on a specific Steward Stroll or any tennis games which were weekly until COVID put an end to them. Nor do they include distances covered on a bike.
I will also be starting my running regime as soon as the snow has cleared. Building up from a low starting point. The annual village funrun is due to take place in July but will it be able to go ahead?
Heard that we haven't been the only ones suffering problems with the boiler during this cold weather. Clearly condensation pipes are a problem and hundreds have found them icing up. I'm just glad we didn't run to the expense of calling out a plumber to deal with a problem caused simply by the cold weather and not by any technical problem with the boiler.
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Mindless comment of the week from a contestant on Sunday night's Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
"What would you like to do if you won lots of money," asked host Jeremy Clarkson.
Back came the answer:
"I would like to take my mum to Japan. I was born there but have never been there." Doh.
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Yesterday I had rather a strange experience. No it wasn't buying a round of drinks although chance would be a fine thing on that one. I gave a talk to a group via the Zoom platform.
So hello to member of Wymondham Rotary Club who put up with me rambling on for 30 minutes.
When I have given talks in the past I have enjoyed the interaction with those present. So to deliver something with faces staring at you from a machine was a little off-putting but interesting and fun in a very strange sort of way.
I hope I didn't bore everyone too much.
It will be very interesting once lockdown is relaxed. How many groups/organisations just won't start up again? Will others continue meeting online or will some groups be a mixture of personal attendance and online presence?
I will have mentioned in the past that I am a trustee of the Norfolk Family History Society. We have an agm coming up in March and it is almost certain that this will be held via the zoom platform. We have many members living overseas. Our usual agm is held at Kirby Hall in St Giles in Norwich. Obviously the members attending come almost exclusively from Norfolk and most will probably come from Norwich or the surrounding areas. But with a zoom agm we can have members attending from throughout the UK and even America and Canada and Australia and New Zealand if they can stay awake long enough.