please empty your brain below

I reckon that there is no mystery count. I think you have just added it to keep our intrest up. I mean apart from you who else is interested in how many trains you used, very few I would think, but we all want to know about the mystery count. I suspect it is a bit like a mystery box in an auction, "What's in the box, it could be jewels or money. Oh it's shredded newspaper!"
"And I've never walked less than 4000 steps in a day"

I'd like to believe you do it to annoy those of us who care...
This is great, I only discovered your blog about three weeks ago, and I've read all the way back, so it's good to see the count as it happens!
While I know you say you're not one for experimenting, I've yet to have a bad lager from any of the new London breweries that have sprung up over the past few years. Why not give one a go next time you find yourself Becks-less?
I've not being doing a count (much as I always intend to) but I have been losing weight (a stone and a half in three months, thank you for asking) using the FitnessPal app to log everything I consume, so I can state that my average daily tea consumption for the past 28 days has been 5.57 mugs, with a low of 2 (spent a lot of the day on trains and then went to the pub) and a high of eight (a particularly dull day at work).
I'd laugh, except there's a danger it may offend....Dear DG, this seems dangerously close to a mental health problem.
Just a private opinion, draught beer in a pub is half the fun. Drinking bottled beer in a pub is like doing so in a supermarket.
In what way is it a problem, B?
Becks? - Oh Dear!
My Becks thing is a reaction to
a) drunkenness
b) hiccups

a) If I drink 275ml bottles every round, I can keep up with everyone else in the pub who's guzzling pints and spirits, without falling over prematurely.

b) I've discovered that if I consume too much vaguely gassy alcohol I always end up with rampant hiccups, so I drink something that doesn't make me a laughing stock at the end of the evening.

Becks is a proven solution that works for me. And I quite like the stuff, but I certainly don't choose it for deliciousness or hipsterdom.
"but I favoured inertia"

Opens up a whole realm of possibilities for the Mystery Count! The suspense is killing me, but at the same time I hope it continues. The anticipation is sometimes better than the thing itself!
there's another site that has a similar picture of a count and a clue as to what the mystery count might be. Not so indiscreet as to provide any links or proofs.
Except i very much suspect that should the mystery count ever be more then zero one year, DG is not going to give away WHAT it is. he's just going to say "Yes, the mystery thing happened X times this February", - and will continue to leave us deliberating on what it could be ...
Like the CornishCockney I latched onto the same 4 words and thought it was an odd statement given DG is proactive or a "do-er" as my Mum would say.
But also agree with geofftech-as even if it was a 1 I think DG would still be teasing us.
Oh well...I still like The Count!
I think the 10,000 steps per day guideline may be medically accurate, but telling people that they need to walk the equivalent of 1hr 40min a day puts most off even trying.
Another pedant writes: You downloaded the Moves app to your iPhone. Uploading refers to the process of transmitting data from your consumer device to the internet, like, say, posting a blog. Downloading refers to the opposite, like, say, downloading an app. It's either that, or your count of the number of escalators you've walked 'up' is really less impressive than it seems.
Where to start Sarah.....not that such a thing is anyone's to speculate about, but, the irony of us visitors who know perfectly well DG does his 10 counts of no earthly significance every February and we all come here to read the results. Madness.
The mystery is no more, if one rereads the report intelligently, the count is of 'occasions of intercourse'.
I did walk 10,000 steps or more every day in February and it was a challenge and I can confirm it takes up a lot of time.
I think the telling words are "and the count probably wouldn't have risen anyway". Bad thoughts! Go and stand in the corner!
*fewer* than 4000 steps in a day (just to be a total pedant ;-)
Oops, BW beat me to it :-(










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