I was thinking of flirting 'til she started singing along with the Arctics

[alexsarll]

As was noted whilst walking, it seems most unfair that one can manage two Tube Walks, even walking from the end of the first to the start of the second, and still be under one's recommended steps for the day (at least, if my pedometer is to be trusted) - whereas a day, say, pottering around the office and then wandering off to play computer games will normally get past 10,000. But even if the Walks would not satisfy a health professional, at least I have now wandered beside the Regent's Canal, something I have somehow contrived never previously to do. I can see why all the stoners are so fond of it, it's very sunny and gentle and St Etienne-y down there.
Then, after a pause in the Doric Arch (aka the Head of Steam, and thankfully the name is about all they changed), on to a pleasantly deserted Hackney pub for the evening. It seems a shame that all that benighted area's gentrification is concentrated in such a small quadrant, but I suppose we can hope that it builds a safe core and then spreads.

"Soap shows are awash with scenes showing alcohol being consumed as part of a seemingly healthy lifestyle and appearing as a normal part of everyday life," whinges prig. What, like it *is* for most people, you mean? It's nonsense anyway - back when I used to catch Neighbours, anyone seen with a bottle of anything harder than beer would, by week's end at the very latest, be a hopeless alkie, just as anyone going near the sea on an overcast day would drown, and all motorbikes might as well have been ridden by the Grim Reaper.

It looks to be a lovely day out there, but my Wire addiction is now such that I'm tempted just to stay in and polish off the last three eps of Season One.

Comments

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Walking to work doesn't get me my 10000 steps either (but I think my general daily office poddles run to about 2000 steps).

However, sitting in a taxi from Oxford Street to home registers 4000 steps. So that's reassuring - but a somewhat expensive way to exercise.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I've never thought to check whether it's registering transport wobbles as steps. Hmmm.

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

Mine doesn't, or at least less than a hundred for a bus ride from Stoke Newington to London Bridge. Probably buses have more suspensions in them than taxi, or at least the bumps are more spread out and thus less likely to jostle the thing in the way that makes it register a step.

with disastrous consequences

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

It's a fabulous day. Sadly this means I had to close the curtains to be able to see the screen. What is wrong with us?!

Yes, agreed re alcohol in soaps. Pub drinking is the norm (and yes indeed reasonably healthy, being in moderation and involving social networking,) but anyone in a soap who ever has 'one too many' will be guaranteed to sleep with the wrong person/blurt out a dire secret/get into a fight/all of the above.
(For the record, Coronation Street did recently have an alcoholism story, albeit not with a main character.)

Re: with disastrous consequences

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I did go out for a brief stroll, on which I found the Dustbins' Graveyard. Now I shall feel less sluggardly as I press ahead with Plan Wire.

Re: with disastrous consequences

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

anyone in a soap who ever has 'one too many' will be guaranteed to sleep with the wrong person/blurt out a dire secret/get into a fight/all of the above.

You say all that like those are bad things..!

Re: with disastrous consequences

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Further evidence of the anti-fun attitudes with which these so-called soap operas are poisoning our brains!

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Maths: I have been wondering about this steps thing. It takes me 35 minutes to walk to work, a distance of about two - two and a half miles. My normal sort of pace is such that I probably do about five miles an hour. I reckon it's about two - three paces a second. That gives 3 x 60 x 60 an hour for about five miles, tops, or between 7000 and 10 000 roughly, for five miles. Also, I have heard that pedometers don't register every step you take.

[elethe.livejournal.com]

I had a pedometer that seemed to only register one in three steps. But if you held it in your hand and shook it you could get thousands a day.

Course it was a freebie that came with a salad from MacDonalds (I didn't get the salad - I would never go in MacDonalds for anything - an ex boyfriend used to buy himself their salads in the belief they were in some way healthy. He gave me the pedometer.)

I became obsessed wth walking everywhere to try and get it to admit I had done 10,000 steps, but even walking all day didn't get me the required amount.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I once made 22,500, but that was largely because the overground was being unutterably hopeless that day.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Mine seems to so long as it's level, but if it starts slipping at all, it gets temperamental. Also ARGH it has reset itself to KM again, how many times must I tell it to stay Imperial?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it is lovely outside, i might even dig teh garden this afternoon (hey garden, yr looking cool)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

How very English! I approve.

Straight to the point.

[moleintheground.livejournal.com]

When would be good to come and steal all your DVDs, Alex? (Wire, Battlestar).