Not many out dog walking this afternoon

 

A bit damp

Although not amazing excited about heading out Arwen soon got into the swing of things

Stupid cat!  Josie is sitting on Arwen's towel so I can't even dry her. 

Last night was fun

We ended up killing the giant beholder Xanathar and won!

Next week we're making characters for Vampire the Masquerade. Should be fun too.

 

This morning's walk

 I forgot to bring Flo's school back with us this morning so I had to go home and pick that up which means i've now done 17k steps before work.  Here are some photos

Swan

Photo bomb

Some red flower

Buttercup

Field left to fallow

Rugby posts coming down for the summer months

 Not sure why they bother as they'll only have to put them back again in August / September.  Maybe it's to give the ground a bit of a rest from supporting the weight.

Steps

 I managed to download my step counter data from Samsung Health but it was in a pretty poor state to easily manipulate and make sense of.  I'm sure it all makes sense to proper developers but I didn't have the time or inclination to sort it out.  In the end I went old school and typed out the data.

I'm not that fussed about daily data, more interested in trends so just copied out the monthly data for steps and distance going back to September 2016.  That must be when I first started using Samsungs.

Any way here are the highlights...

Here's average daily steps per month.  Below is the same but with each year split by month.

I've been really upping my game this year.  It coincides with me being consistently the lightest i've been for 10+ years.  If I walk the dog and take Flo to school in the morning i've already done 12k steps before work.  I've then got to pick up Flo or Arthur in the evening which is another 3k minimum.  If April's in town and getting back late / staying over i've got to do a second dog walk and pick up another child.

Weekends are low as we struggle taking the dog out as much as we'd like as it's tough sometimes juggling two kids at the same time but once they're a bit older and easier to manage things will improve.

Interesting stats

Last year I stepped  4.6m times

Mid way through May i've already done more than a million steps more than at the same point last year.

Last year I recorded 3,490 km

I'm currently averaging 12.9km per day in 2022, it was 6.2km in 2016

Ice cream defence

 April was in town today and was picking up Arthur later that usual.  As a special treat I took Flo to the posher ice cream shop on the way home.  Here she is defending her ice cream.

Pleased walk home

What a mess

Anyone else get one of these?

I received this in the post this morning. A special bag from John Lewis to celebrate the jubilee. How strange.

Call to the sea

 Flo does ballet at her school on Fridays, I was shown a glimpse of one her new moves "Call to the Sea".  The dog was very close to getting trodden on.

Nothing better than a bbq in the rain

 Steve's family popped over for a bbq on Sunday.  Despite the forecast for the rain to be gone by late morning it persisted all day.  Grr...  Not to worry, we still went on with it.  Afterwards we took the dogs out for a walk and also had a go on the model trains.

Sunday morning means smoothie

Flo enjoys helping.