Sunday 11th January 2026

Day two of the weekend. Even if every day is now the weekend for us.

You get what I mean.

And being a weekend, I start the day with a trip to the gym alone, as Jools was having a day off.

So after cofffee and checking on the world, I leave the house, and despite it being nearly two degrees above freezing, here was still a frost, and Dover Road past Wallett's Court had not been gritted, and looked like the Cresta Run.

But I make it to the sports centre safe and sound, and being dawn, on the horizon, Mother Nature was showing her new season colours, so I take a shot of the sky and clouds.

Then inside and walked up the stairs instead of taking the lift, and onto the bike with an old podcast to listen to, as I had run out of new ones again.

I don't need a video of some city to bile through now, just me against the clock and the calorie counter. I even up the pace to something akin to a sprint at the end.

Done.

Back home as the kiddies arrive for their swimming gala, happy to have done my bit.

And once we had eaten breakfast, I had another shower before we went to Jen's to sort out her new phone.

She switched from an ancient i-phone to an Android, and the leap in technology would have been the same had she stayed with Apple.

More data to transfer, the find out if the apps worked, and then how to get her pictures moved across.

Hardest thing was Facebook, with having to log out and back in on her old phone before it recognised her new phone and credentials. But the added complexity was Messenger, which as a part of Facebook with no clear way of logging out, so that despite logging out she was still logged in.

I hope this makes sense.

Two and a half hours we tried, then had to bring her old phone back here so we could download her pictures before they vanished in a puff of unsmoke.

That was the morning gone, and so that meant the football was due to begin, but all on the radio for me. Including Norwich, playing at home to Walsall.

A potential banana skin, but as it turned out, a cake walk and a 5-1 win for City.

Dinner defrosted and reheated jambalaya, which was good enough, meaning very little washing up and a ten minute prep for me.

And that was it.

Not much in the evening, other than overnight the winds would swing round to the west and it would be ten degrees warmer in the morning.