Steps

No not the terrible popular singing group!

I've entered the Get Active challenge at work, to get up to walking at least 10,000 steps every day.

Every entrant who signs up is issued with a small, cheapo LCD pedometer (badly designed as the Reset button is a great big thing on the front, so you keep accidentally resetting it as you wear the thing).

You then measure the number of steps that you take each day, with a view to building up the number that you take on average to be 10,000.

According to the blurb that we were given most people take 3 to 5000 steps a day.
On day 1 (Monday) I got the pedometer around 10am and by the time I went to bed around midnight I'd done 4,900 steps.

On day 2 I went for a walk at lunctime to buy fruit, and buy the end of the day had notched up around 10,300 steps.

Today I went shopping at lunchtime. Checking the pedometer now I've done 9,300 steps.

So going for at least half an hour walk every day, and using the stairs rather than the lift seems to be the key. I'm feeling a bit fitter too.

Day Off Work

It's half term, so I took a day off work today.

Spent the morning with the kids in UnderWaterStreet.

Then we went for a walk around town to view an oversized Spider, "Turning the Place Over" and SuperLambBanana.

Walkie Talkies

For a Valentine's day treat I bought Frodo and Samwise a set of decent little Binatone Latitude 100 walkie-talkies.

They've been running round the house on rescue missions all weekend calling each other up and ending every sentence with "Over", or "Over and Out".

Wii Fit Obsession

I'm becoming hooked on Wii Fit.

I'm at the -starting to hallucinate whilst jogging around the Wii Fit island- stage.

Why do I find myself waving back at the Mii's who wave at mine on the roadside?

Why do I laugh as other Mii's fall on their faces?

Did that cute blonde Mii really flutter her eyes at my Mii as she went past? Look she did it again! Why did she ignore me the third time?

Why do I start to loathe the supercilious grins on the faces of the faster Mii's who overtake mine?