Yesterday morning, as I was about to leave for work, Hannah started to clean the kitchen bin with bleach spray. A couple of minutes later, she started to have what, from previous experience, felt like an asthma attack. She felt it was burning in her lungs and told me she must have inhaled chlorine. Her… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, I got my first blisters from barefooting. I’ve had a few hotspots before from form issues but have been able to use them to learn better form. This time, I went out at lunch time, after the sun had been baking the pavement for a good few hours. Air temp… Read More »
Last year, Reading Borough Council provided printed calendars with the dates for collections of rubbish and recycling etc. This year, they don’t seem to have done so. It took a little while of chasing links around the reading.gov.uk site, but in the end I found an online version. Go to My Reading and set your… Read More »
I’d be interested to know if somebody can identify this (it’s a little larger than a squash ball: UPDATE: The prize goes to Carl: It appears to be an air stone for fish tanks/ponds. Since yesterday evening it found its way through our rear windscreen: I’ve held back on the vitriol, but if I could… Read More »
Today I ran a 5K “Fun Run” organised by Microsoft on the business park I work on. The event was in aid of the NSPCC. I’d heard there was a prize for best costume, and I figured a caveman costume gave me a good excuse to run it barefoot. I didn’t win the best costume… Read More »
Our “lawn” is looking decidedly unhappy, so I decided to give a bit of love to a section of it. I used a garden fork to aerate it a bit, and tried to sweep sharp sand into the holes. Seemed to leave a lot still above ground, at the roots, but I left it. As… Read More »
I just finished installing Flock on my desktop, but ran into a few issues. Nothing obvious that I could find that explained the dependency problems, so now that I’ve sorted them: Flock only provides 32-bit (i686) binaries so if you’re running 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora Linux, you probably don’t have the right dependencies. First step, download… Read More »
The event organiser took a few pictures of me running, and kindly sent me copies. Proof, for you 🙂 Images courtesy of Dave Renshaw
Dear Lazyweb, Can anybody tell me what kind of fungus this is? There were several groups of them by the lake at The Vyne.
In a short while, I’m running the Sport Relief Mile in Caversham. I’m running 3 miles, barefoot. We’ll see how that turns out 🙂 If you’d like to sponsor me: http://www.mysportrelief.com/joewrigley