giving up

Today Beth and I attempted to walk up Scafell Pike. It's only 978m, so shouldn't have given us too much bother. However, the weather conspired against us and about half way up we decided to turn back.

It was getting foggier and foggier, and we were being pelted by wind and fine rain that was soaking us and making the paths slippy. It just didn't seem worth it.

It's odd having to turn back from something though. I don't think I can think of any walk that I've given up on before - I think I'm usually well prepared and pragmatic on planning so disasters rarely happen. This time though we half ignored the weather forecast hoping it would get nicer, which, sadly, it didn't.

Oh well; the mountain isn't going anyway. I'm sure we'll back.

tags: life, walking, holiday

permalink | posted by nathan on Wednesday, the 9th of June, 2021, during the productive hours of the afternoon

music

Like my previous post on books, I'd love to have a better grasp of the music I enjoy, as I often find myself listening to the same things and forgetting good artists and albums that I could be listening too. So be ready for some crappy album reviews too.

tags: music

permalink | posted by nathan on Friday, the 4th of June, 2021, during the most productive hours of the day

wednesday 5ks - june - 24:28

Back at it again! This month was slow. A couple of reasons:

• I had a fairly big week exercise-wise last week, a good amount of running and cycling and UWH
• I've been pretty stressed with a lot of the Canada move stuff
• I'm just generally feeling pretty exhausted

I said to Beth when we started that I'd be happy with 25 minutes, and I got that, so I guess I'm not too upset. We've done quite a lot of exercise over the past few weeks so I think I am fitter, it's just hard for that to manifest at the moment.

tags: wednesday-5ks, running

permalink | posted by nathan on Wednesday, the 2th of June, 2021, in an early evening lull

marie kondo

(this post is from a few months ago, late January/February, but thought I'd post it anyway)

Whilst we've been working from home the last few months, we are slowly become more and more irritated by how messy the flat is. It's not massively messy, and we don't have a huge amount of things, but there is always something out of place, our bookshelf is overflowing a bit, and the Lego my brother and I buy each other for Christmas is finally stacking up a bit too high.

So we decided to declutter. I had two realisations fairly early on: I have too much stuff, and it's actually surprisingly easy to get rid of things once you get started. I usually really hate tidying, and will usually put off jobs that don't need doing for a long time. So while it definitely was a lot of effort to get the ball rolling and start the tidying process, once it was in full swing it was very easy to see the results. We've spend so much time in our flat now that having less clutter is so much less stressful. Those positive feelings kept the cleaning going. We have so many clothes to give away now!

tags: self

permalink | posted by nathan on Monday, the 31th of May, 2021, in an early evening lull

stone farm

Rowan and Tom bought a climbing mat between them a while back, and have been doing some "proper" outdoor bouldering.

Beth and I went along this time. It was a glorious sunny day, and we did some climbing and chilled out in the countryside and then had a chat in a pub.

Just all round a pretty fab day. It's nice to be able to do things with people again.

tags: life, climbing

permalink | posted by nathan on Monday, the 31th of May, 2021, during the productive hours of the afternoon