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The absurdity of the use of kph

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  First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this.  It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres. You al

The pint is inefficient, but I still want one

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I have not had a single alcoholic drink since New Year's Eve. Given the lockdown, I have little incentive to drink, and so have inadvertently done Dry January. I am halfway through February sober and with Lent fast approaching, may well not be seeing booze until Easter. (The key word here is may. This restrained life is going out the window as soon as we are allowed to socialise meaningfully again.) Unlike the non-drinkers, I will not get on a high horse and preach about the virtues of sobriety. Find your nearest convert to the Church of Tee-Totalism and they will no doubt tell you that quitting booze makes you more energetic, sleep better and think more sharply. Whether there's truth to that is a matter for science. However, I have noticed myself thinking more sharply about one thing in particular - getting my hands on a freshly poured pint of anything amber (except cider... or petrol). In my first post of the current era of this blog, "showing a bit of kindness to the im