So, we reach the beginning of the end. July will be my last month as a man of relative leisure. Things have gone fast, that's for sure but no time to dwell on that for now. I have still been tied up with lots of activities in the past week. I had a busy week at work and with that always comes the potential for tempers to fray - never fear, my colleagues up at Airedale Hospital were as pleasant and cheery as they always have been. That said, I do believe last week may have been the last time I ever work up there (unless events take strange turns in the future) - so I would like to take this opportunity to big it up. A lovely place to work, some tremendous people and some fond memories.
I have been experimenting with a few tasks this week. One of these has been knot tying. Great fun and very useful - if I were to find myself in certain survival situations that is. Youtube has been my ally here and it should be noted that listening to people describing knots on headphones can have a strange calming effect over you. Good to go to sleep to. Also good to send you to sleep is watching videos on ways to convert between different units of measurement such as fahrenheit to celsius. As you can imagine, this is for very different reasons. Nonetheless, I'm glad I roped myself into it as both efforts were useful and informative and have served to bolster my general knowledge of things.
In order to take advantage of the long working week, I took the opportunity to use this as my week without TV. As expected, it was well hard. But not as hard as I had expected. As long as there is something there in its place, it's easy to string along. Although I did find myself singing the Frasier theme tune pretty much all week - maybe some sort of weird withdrawal symptom - and the fact that I missed 5 episodes of Neighbours was also somewhat distressing.Knot to worry.
One last thing to add. If anyone thinks they see me in London (or indeed anywhere in the world) then do let me know. If it turns out that I am nowhere near you then it may turn out to be the mysterious doppelganger that has been lurking, mainly up until now, in the London area. I have had several reports of this strange - but probably incredibly dashing - individual crossing paths with people I know that were convinced it was me and so if you see him, do knot let him go. Grab him, find out who he is and tell him to stop tormenting me.
Together we can solve the mystery.
So, as we come to the last month, I have decided that the weekly task has now served its purpose. I have several final bits and pieces that I want to complete before things end and these are listed at the end of this blog. They will be completed on an ad hoc basis from now on and so the next few blogs will be a surprise. In addition to these, I will be finishing off my novel and consolidating all that I have learn this year. So sit tight and observe. W
Complete my back flip training
Produce fire like Ray Mears
Buy and sell an antique for a profit
Attempt a world record
Learn how to moonwalk
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