The good thing about being unfit is that when I do manage to get out for a run 15 mins / 1 mile is enough for the same physical release and seratonin hit that I needed to run 45 mins / 5 miles for when I was in practice. Way more time efficient.

If there's one important lesson I've learnt from my mother it's that if you want cake, and you don't have any, just make some.

• Finished Tales from Earthsea; started The Other Wind.
• Some work on OCDS Kingfisher.
• Help with Open Data Services Co-op hiring admin.
• Went for some runs.
• Cooked for my Mum and my Grandma.
• Visited Southwell, and went on a jaunt to Nottingham.
• (photos from the week.)

I'm often late to the party on new day-to-day tech stuff, like how it was mindblowing when I finally got a contactless payment card. Now I have bluetooth headphones and it's soooo freeing.

(If only I could get ubuntu to pair with them, or anything, but you know one thing at a time. They work with my ye olde android phone.)

I finally picked a place to live in Bulgaria in November, and what swung it mostly was a chair in the apartment that looks super comfortable and like I could be very productive in that chair. The important things.

• Watched the rain in the Lincolnshire countryside.
• Tinkered with updates to OCDS tools.
• Went to Nottingham for two days to co-work and share internal knowledge with Open Data Services Co-op colleagues.
• Started Tales From Earthsea.
• Spent way too long deciding where to stay in November in Bulgaria.