Something which amazes me is how people know
exactly what the price of petrol is in so many different petrol stations. And this
fixation about how you can save one penny per litre if you drive miles to buy
your petrol.
I was reliably informed that petrol from
Morrisons in Canterbury was two pence per litre cheaper than from Tesco’s in
Ashford. So after work I went to Morrisons in Canterbury. It involved
negotiating some rather dodgy narrow country lanes, and trying to get to a
petrol station via a car park was an experience. But having gone well out of my
way and having made a journey I otherwise wouldn’t have made, I’ve saved myself
seventy five pence.
It would have been a lot quicker if I just
went to Tesco’s in Ashford; personally I think the time that I wasted fiddling
about was worth a lot more than that seventy five pence. But what do I know?
And then on to the Stour Centre for a bit of
swimming. I was rather amazed to have to pay up £4.60 when ‘er indoors TM
had distinctly said it would only
cost two quid. But do I complain? The Stour Centre have a deal whereby you can
buy a monthly ticket for twenty quid and then you can go as often as you like.
So after four swims in a month I’d be in credit.
However if I were
to take them up on this offer I could only pay by direct debit, and they demand
two months’ notice of cancellation. I think I’ll stick to “pay as I go”
for the time being.
I hadn’t been swimming since the summer of
2007, and it showed. When I got to the pool I had the choice of slow, medium or
fast lane. I thought I was probably a medium, but would start off in the slow
lane. I was glad I did. I was one of the slowest there. And I developed a
rather odd cramp between my shoulder blades. But I carried on regardless. I’d
set myself a goal to do ten lengths before I gave up. In the end I did
twenty-two. That’s just over half a kilometre. I don’t think that’s bad going
for my first swim in four years.
Plugging my data into my fitness pal (dot com) tells me that half an hour’s swimming burned up about as
many calories as were in Sunday’s roast dinner. Perhaps I should do more of
this swimming lark.
And in closing I’ll make the observation that
on the day that Google Plus goes live, the latest Facebook upgrade is so
dreadful that it seems designed to push all of its users over to Google Plus..
Having spent the last two days rejigging all my facebook friends into the default Family, Friends and Acquaintances lists, deleted my old lists and created some new custom ones, the latest changes to Facebook, including the news feed make a lot of sense, particularly since the changes allow me to filter out the dross.
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