The
world can only be grasped by action, not contemplation... The hand is
the cutting edge of the mind.
-Jacob
Bronowski, Polish mathematician and humanist
Well,
I did it. 30 posts in 30 days, throughout November, for National Blog Posting Month.
I enjoyed searching out content and hammering out text as quickly as
I could.
I
got nearly 4000 hits in the month, which is a little more than other
recent months, but nowhere near the inexplicable successes of 2014
where I was getting a 500-1000 hits a day for most of the year. God
knows what I was doing right at that time. Weirdly, my most popular
post in the past month was this one about Bowlers' car boot sale.
(119 views at the time of writing.) I still haven't tried the recipe
book I bought there.
On
the 5th, I decided that I'd up my drinking, in accordance
with the theme of 'excess,' to see if that would suppress my appetite
and help me to lose weight. A few people suggested that it wouldn't
work. They were right: I went from 84kg (13'3) to 82.9kg (13'), not
as much as I'd hoped, but it's still the equivalent of 4 pieces of
crockery. I still have a bit of a gut, but I'm still skipping
breakfast, so we'll see how that affects weight.
In
the month of November I got no personal bests in the gym.
I
drank, this month. I finished the remnants of bottles of Aberlour,
Highland Park, (my favourite), Wild Turkey, and downed a sample
bottle of The Arran Malt, and threw out some Baileys chocolates which
were about 4 years out of date (typically, I only noticed once I'd
bitten into one). There was so little left in each one that I've not
really drank that much at all, but it's more than I normally have.
And it's cold.
I'm
making gains on social media, if not with weights: I passed the 1300
follower mark on Twitter. Speaking of Twitter followers, Stanley Johnson (Boris' dad) is currently
in the Australian jungle for I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. I
was his 4,999th follower.
So,
hardly the Thompson-esque rollercoaster of drug-fuelled manic
reportage I had in mind, but then, of course it wasn't. Fun though.
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