Discovered why our terrestrial TV reception has been so poor recently. Our aerial sits atop a pole on our chimney stack, ‘cept when I looked through one of the skylights in the office, I could see that the pole had snapped in half and the aerial itself was hanging by the coaxial cable just inches above the roof tiles! Must get an aerial guy in to sort that out.
Speaking of the roof, also had a quote in from a roofing company to ‘fix’ the roof – there’s quite a few slipped tiles, some hanging precariously to the edge of the roof, ready to fall off – and some rather alarming looking ‘holes’ are forming in the roof. I fear that it’s only a matter of time before nature takes over. The guy says £190 will fix it all. I think we’ll get a 2nd opinion and see what’s what.
Went swimming again this evening. After doing some reading up, I decided to give Ponds Forge a try, but having left work late I soon gave up on that idea after seeing the ginormous queue for the Ponds Forge car park. The new multi-story next to the Ibis looked like it was closed, plus it’s about 4 quid for 2 hours parking, so I diverted back up to Hillsborough.
The parking situation isn’t much better at Hillsborough, but there are plenty of spaces right round the back of the centre. I have to admit that I find the parking ritual here quite strange. I mean – you’re coming here to exercise, so why do so many people park illegally on the access road, double park in the carpark, and stick their Beemers and Mercs in disabled bays purely to be 100m closer to the front door? Is the 100m walk that much of a chore?
Did a kilometre again. Need to work on my timings for this though – I’m by no means a fast swimmer, certainly not with the weight I’ve got to drag through the water! – so I have to swim in the ‘slow’ lanes of the pool. This is fine, except after 6.30 the pool just fills with middle-aged women, and all they want to do is swim a length or two and then stop and have a gas at each end. This makes the actual business of swimming lengths quite difficult. Perhaps going at lunchtime is the answer? The only thing with this is that my work is the other side of the city to Hillsborough…
I’m tempted to buy one of these ‘Fitness Unlimited‘ memberships, whereby I can use all of the swimming, and, god forbid – gym facilities of a number of centres in Sheffield. For £30 a month, it’s quite good value, and assuming that I go more than 6 times in a month, it’d pay for itself.
The fitness thing really appears to be getting to me it seems – I found myself today at work pondering the idea of … well … walking home. Ordinarily such an idea wouldn’t even enter my mind, but I found myself weighing up the idea of whether or not I’d be able to walk home from work, and how long it’d take me. Google maps told me that its a journey of 5.5 miles, so we might be ‘thinking’ as opposed to ‘doing’ for a while yet – but I found it encouraging that my brain was actually even contemplating such an action.
Related posts:
- Sinking Like a Stone A dull day at work. Went swimming after work. Tried...
- I Like Driving In My Car And, it's not quite a Jag-u-ar. In fact, it's not...
- Swimming With The Monster Woke early, for a Sunday, at around 8.30ish. We're off...
- Grande! A dull trundle up the M18 this morning. I can't...
- I Use Mouthwash The foul mood I was in yesterday thankfully disappeared in...