Another rainy evening, but still made my walk.
Tag Archives: House Buying
Training in Quarantine – Day 196
Evening walk, just under 3km and raining.
Training in Quarantine – Day 195
Slightly different walk today — went to see another prospective house, but didn’t actually go inside, since it wasn’t an actual viewing.
My offer on another house did actually get accepted finally (after a bit of back and forth)
Training in Quarantine – Day 194
Evening walk from yesterday that I forgot to log — short walk, the weather was looking ominous and did actually end up heavily raining.
Also, I got a notification a couple of days ago that Endomondo is being retired at the end of the year.
I knew this was going to happen soon at some point after Underarmor picked it up.
I’m saddened by this as Endomondo has been my go-to for a lot of running things, including helping me train for the Half Marathon. Strava is my alternative and a lot of my colleagues are on that, but I really do not like the interface and only really use it for storing my walk/run tracks.
Training in Quarantine – Day 193
Another evening walk, and this time I went to look at the back of a house that my folks really like post-viewing.
The back has a shared parking space — which, during the day seems okay, but in the evening, when everyone else is there, it looks very tight for space, meaning unless you have backed into the parking space, it’s going to be difficult to come out of the parking unless you reverse out.
Training in Quarantine – Day 192
A busy Saturday with several house viewings. One of which got cancelled due to a resident having to self-isolate due to covid.
One of the viewings today was originally written off by my folks as a “no-hope” but once they viewed inside, their tone dramatically changed.
A literal case of not judging a book by its cover.
In other news, I saw a tweet from https://twitter.com/VictoriaBID:
Now I work on top of Victoria Station, so I walk past the memorial plaque dedicated to the Unknown Soldier every day I commute to the office. Obviously not so much this year due to covid.
The Military Wives Choir did the song for Abide With Me using the now-common feature of a virtual choir:
The virtual choir idea has been used a lot this year due to social distancing, but let’s not forget, the idea dates back way further, even as far back as 2009 with Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir project (https://www.youtube.com/user/EricWhitacresVrtlChr) which also made it into several TED talks
From 2010:
2011:
And 2013:
Training in Quarantine – Day 191 and other updates
My last logged walk was 23rd October. I’ve been slacking off logging runs since then, so this is my first logged run since then, even though I have been doing near-daily runs since then, so I’m skipping through to Day 191 since I’ve done 10 days of walks since then.
I’ve also got a few other updates.
My house purchase fell through a while ago so I have been actively house hunting a lot and my past few Saturdays have been spent house viewing. Viewing during the day is tricky unless I take time off to house hunt.
Dealing with different Estate Agents is a pain, with some not even bothering to give you the time of day, let alone
I also upgraded my phone to Android 10 LineageOS and I’ve been having quite a few issues with internet speed and stability. I’m seriously considering forcing a downgrade back to Android 9. In the meantime, I might switch from Adoptable Storage back to portable storage to see if that helps with stability.
Oh, and it’s frickin’ COLD.
Training in Quarantine – Day 177/178
Forgot to log my walk yesterday. So doing both today.
Yesterday, I decided to look at a house up for sale on Zoopla, but couldn’t find it. The map marker was where a gated house was, but there was no estate agent sign. Maybe it’s been sold already?
But at least I got a nice walk out of it.
Today I did my normal lap around. Tesco have made progress on the forecourt of their petrol station, but I haven’t the foggiest what kind of work they’re doing.
Training in Quarantine – Day 176
Later walk than normal — the weather was colder and darker, but still made it around without any rain soaking me this time.
In other news, you may recall I spoke about a prospective new house I was looking at. Well, even though my offer was accepted, the seller decided to pull out of the deal before any contracts were exchanged. I’m bummed as heck over it, but not much I can do about it, I guess.
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