Week commencing Monday, 18 July 2022
- I’d like to start recording my weekly exercise goals here. I use the Apple Watch and will measure completed rings. This week: Stand 5/7; Exercise 3/7 and Move 1/7. Only 43%. Not good.
- The heatwave arrived at the start of the week. My team had planned to work in the office on Monday. As some people ended up being out of London and would not have attended anyway, the rest of us took TFL’s advice and stayed at home.
- The outside thermometer at my house did record over 40 degrees Celsius on Monday – and more on Tuesday – but that was in the direct sun and I don’t think that recording is accurate. Meanwhile, military officials said the runway at the country’s largest air base ‘melted’.
- Turns out, from watching one of the Slack channels at work that quite a few people have Netatmo.
- According to The Week, “Numerous studies have linked hot weather to reduced cognitive function leading to decreased productivity [and] errors of judgement.” Let’s hope all the decisions I made at work still stand!
- There were wildfires in the UK which is not a phrase I think I’ve heard here before.
- I finished Giles Turnbull’s The Agile Comms Handbook. My takeaway is to continue to write more. I think the more you write – here and elsewhere – the easier it is. But also that I want to adopt some of the strategies at work: maybe too late for this job but not for the next. Also, the first draft is always bad. Recommended if you care about communicating your work.
- We walked to New Malden to find panko breadcrumbs. I’m pleased we were successful finding them as they are really useful to have around. Is it a bit lazy to have them in the cupboard?
- Sunday to the Battersea Power Station complex. Since we were last there they have removed lots of hoardings and you can now walked all around the Power Station. It’s very impressive. We visited the shell of the building in 2006 and it would be fascinating to see it’s new life.
- We were there to see a performance in the world premiere run of A-Typical Rainbow. It’s a play by autistic writer JJ Green. The theatre blurb says the play asks: “could a kinder, more joyful world lie at the end of the rainbow?” It was very good.
- I do not subscribe to the view that the public has any kind of right, just because it’s mid-term, to view the internal machinations of the Conservative Party’s leadership contest. The candidates have not behaved as one would expect Leaders to behave. And now we likely have months of mud slinging between the remaining two. I feel like this and I am now a news-avoider. I wonder if people who actually watch the news feel this is good?
Archive
To save the links getting lost in the future I checked the Internet Archive to see what they had saved for the posts linked here. If the original source above no longer works, these should.
- TfL advises customers to only travel if essential on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 July, due to very high temperatures
- Planes unable to land because ‘runway has melted’
- Netatmo Weathermap
- What does hot weather do to your brain?
- Heatwave: Fires blaze after UK passes 40C for first time
- The agile comms handbook
- How Is Panko Different from Breadcrumbs?
- 2006 visit to Battersea Power Station
- A-Typical Rainbow, Turbine Theatre
- Trust, tax and Brexit: Candidates clash in ITV leadership debate
- Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss to become PM after Penny Mordaunt eliminated from Tory leadership race
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Originally posted at curnow.org and archived at The Wayback Machine