I’m always losing my Fitbit one activity tracker. It normally lives clipped onto my belt, but it gets caught on stuff and yanked off every few months. Usually I have a good idea of when this might have happened and track it down manually, but yesterday it was really lost. ...
Well I’ve finished my first retirement challenge, Visiting a Different Cafe Every Day for 30 Days and it worked out well. When I first thought of this ‘challenge’ I was mostly having a laugh with myself, it’s hardly a challenge to go to cafes and lots of people commented “can...
I’m just past the one month mark in my retirement and just moving out of the – I’m on holiday – phase and moving into the – rest of my life – phase. It’s a slightly disconcerting feeling, but a hopeful one. During the first month I took some concrete...
Slightly overlapping with my 30 cafes in 30 days challenge, I’m starting up a new 28 day challenge, the overlap and slightly shorter duration is necessitated by the logistical impossibility of eating garden grown food while on holiday in London with Steph. Since I’ve only just started growing my own...
One of my first retirement challenges is to complete 100 of the best walks in the UK, as a way to increase my fitness, but also as a way to introduce myself to many areas of the UK that I’ve not visited before. As my fitness builds I’m going to...
The Rivington Reservoir system provides me with a perfect local walking location. It’s only a 40 minute drive from my breakfast cafe of choice and yet is a fair substitute for the Lake District that’s twice the distance and twice as busy. It doesn’t provide the variety of the Lakes...
One of my first retirement challenges is to complete 100 of the best walks in the UK, as a way to increase my fitness, but also as a way to introduce myself to many areas of the UK that I’ve not visited before. As my fitness builds I’m going to...
I’ve just completed my first full week of retirement and my first impression was that not much had changed. I’ve been winding down for years and the last few months while recovering from a bad flare involved very little work. My first impression then was that this first week had...
As I explained in my last post, I’m embarking on a series of 30 day challenges and my first is close to my heart, cafes. I love visiting cafes, sampling the atmosphere and relaxing while chatting, eating, reading and writing. I must admit though to enjoying the routine of mostly...
From what I’ve been reading 30 days is the minimum length of time that it typically takes to establish a new habit or to replace an old one. 30 day challenges sound like a good way to have fun with the idea, and adding a few challenges into my life...