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Your walking of the route of the 456 in June - revisited recently - would have included Enfield but I don't see it on your list.

dg writes: true on both counts.
I am mildly interested in they logistics of your county/borough count. If you took two trips to Norfolk to see your dad, and that was nine days, then four of those days would be travel, and five entirely in Norfolk. So then you'd only have 360 days in tower Hamlets. I have concluded that you must have done a day trip to Norfolk also.

I have bought a new laptop for the first time in over a decade. I hope it lasts as well as the last one
I cycled 1388 miles this year - mostly commuting and carting around children and/or stuff.

I think you've spurred me on to reprise the cup of tea count I did a few years ago.
It would appear your county count does not include counties you merely passed through en route, unless you took a very circuitous route to Lincolnshire. Nevertheless, all the counties you visited are contiguous except N Yorkshire and E Sussex.

dg quotes: "I counted how many days I've set foot in various administrative areas"

My counts
Countries visited: 4
Trains: National Rail & Overground 15, LU and DLR 8, Gatwick interterminal shuttle 1
Bus: Tfl 8, Other 2
Taxi 5, Boat 8, Aircraft 4
Congratulations on your walking.

I also monitor my step count and my daily average has increased every year since I started monitoring it:

2017: 10,549
2018: 11,173
2019: 11,220
2020: 11,365
2021: 12,320 (so far)

Needless to say I am determined to walk 16,425 steps today to get my 2021 average to 12,365 - exactly 1,000 more than 2020.
I've been counting my wife's Schengen visits. She lives in a one EU country, I in another (yes, it's complicated). So each visit to me or elsewhere in Schengen, outside of her EU residence has to be counted to comply with the rules - 90 in rolling 180 days. Another Brexit bonus
I have no interesting counts to add, aside from ‘new citizenships acquired: 1’.

Thank you very much for all of your blogging this year. It’s always a delight to read. Happy new year to you.

Hadders, will you stop on the spot when you reach 16,425 steps? I am concerned.
That Archers count surprised me as I know them all, but every time I've listened lately it's seemed to feature a new character I've never heard of.
The only thing I regularly record are the books I've finished in an attempt to track the types of books I'm reading and hopefully try to encourage me to read less books by white men; rather dispiritingly, this is the third year I've kept a record and in each year I've still read fewer books by female authors.
During lockdowns I've also been monitoring my step count to try and make sure I'm keeping active and it's amazing how easy it is to become addicted to reaching 10 000 steps.
After you mentioned wordle the other day I will be attempting to complete that every day in 2022.
I am writing an encyclopaedia of hippos, and have been working through a news database, going through items responsive to search terms covering "hippo", "hippopotamus", "hippopotami" and the like. I have cast my eye over - and, where merited, made notes on - 191,555 articles. That does not take into account articles that I have encountered through other means.
There’s probably a good explanation but I’m puzzled as to why some London Boroughs qualify for the “never” list, e.g. Croydon, and others get ignored, e.g. Lambeth.
I expect the "ignored" boroughs (Enfield, Lambeth, ...) are the ones falling between two and 57 days.
Completed my NT property spreadsheet. A suprisingly hard thing to do. On my defintion 360 "properties", of which I have visited 37% in my lifetime.
Added 2 to my Underground station spreadsheet!! (Only got in/out on one of these so far.) Total is 51% by the "in/out" definition. Not a patch on you, I'm sure.
1567 miles cycled, second only to last year.
Happy New year DG, and to all his readers.
My household hasn't spent a single penny on 36 days this year.

Our biggest single expense was childcare, outstripping the mortgage by 20%.

We've spent £956 on TfL this year as a household.
I keep a record of when I was last in London Boroughs and counties, but not how many times I visited. Like you, I only count being there, not passing through.

Boroughs
Not since before the pandemic: Bexley, B&D, Havering, Harrow, Hillingdon.
Jun 2021: Kingston
Jul: Sutton, Hounslow, H&F
Aug: Ealing
Sep: Brent
Oct: Richmond, Barnet
Nov: Newham, Enfield, Merton, K&C
Dec: Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lewisham, City, Islington, Waltham Forest, Haringey, Redbridge, Wandsworth, Croydon, Bromley, Westminster, Southwark, Camden, Lambeth
It helps that I can walk to most of the central boroughs from where I live in Lambeth.

Post pandemic counties:
Sep 2020: Cheshire, Durham, E Yorks, Lincs.
Jun 2021: Northants, Gwynedd, Clwyd, Shropshire, Suffolk, Herts
Jul: Northumberland
Aug: Notts, Bucks
Sep: Somerset, Wilts
Oct: S Yorks, N Yorks, Derbs, Gtr Mcr, Essex, Hants, E Sussex, Kent, Surrey
Nov: Oxon
Dec: Tyne & Wear, Cambs

And I’ve walked an average of 16,011 steps a day this year.
>>my weight is still the same as it was this time last year, and a stone less than New Year's Eve 2019. You can't beat a lot of long walks.

Indeed, that and watching what you eat and eating less.

Back last July my weight was just on 20st. Now it's just on 15st. Aiming now for about 13.
Having regained the weight I lost in 2020, I think the only thing I'll be counting in 2022 will be calories!

Remembering a post you did about how far away N/S/E/W you've been in a year had me wondering if I'd done any better than last year where all points except a trip South to relocate one of the offspring had been within the Greater London boundary.

I didn't! Except this time the only point out of London was West to move another offspring!
Contrarily, my walking total has been noticeably reduced by the pandemic. ​Sitting at my desk, WFH all day long, has not been good from an exercise point of view.

2021 Statistics
Steps per day: 13633
Time asleep per night: 6h46m
Water consumption per day: 1773ml
Y-on-Y change in weight: +1.08kg
Y-on-Y change in waist circumference: +2.03cm

2021 Spending Analysis
Bills: 57%
Home improvement: 20%
Discretionary spend: 8%
Food and drink: 7%
Giving: 5%
Travel: 4
Number of times I have visited the eastern Hemisphere since lockdown - Zero

(The closest I got was Stratford station)

I don't keep a daily spreadsheet of which London Boroughs I've been to, but will do so now. What I have started doing though is switching on "location" on my phone, so I can track my Timeline and places on Google. From that my top London boroughs for 2021 would probably be
1) Barnet (home borough)
2) Camden (nearest other borough)
then a big gap to the likes of
Greenwich, Haringey, Westminster and Enfield
Number of nights away on work was 6 in total this year.

Which doesn't sound like a lot, but considering in 2014-2019, I was averaging 3 nights away from home *per week*, you get an idea how much things have fallen.

All those 6 nights have been since company travel rules relaxed in October, before being tightened in December.
Counties outside London - "Never: everywhere else".

I am standing here in Rochdale, giving you *a look* DG.
Dear me, we don't seem to be doing very well in recruiting new viewers or commenters. I don't keep any spreadsheets of interesting things like you, but according to Duolingo I've spent 7618 minutes improving my French and German this year and have allegedly learned 4440 new words (it doesn't tally how many I've forgotten). And my big hope for 2022 is to use some of these words in their native lands. Happy New Year everyone.
I count a few things each year including:
12 trains (down from 6)
402 tubes (up from 75)
19 buses (up from 15)
0 flights (I hope this changes in 2022)
2 trips to Banbury (up from 1 - sadly, a Christmas trip was inadvisable this year).
Fuller details here.
Number of times I've had to use a card in pubs, restaurents and fast food chains because the business was not accepting cash.

2021 - 26
2020 - 9
Before 2020 - 0
As a reader of this blog there's a good chance you enjoy counting things.

Don't count on it 🙂
Happy New Year!
That makes 71 of them.
I said there was probably a good explanation. Thanks.
100% of the TfL buses I have been on since the end of February 2020 have crashed.
No visits to Islington?

dg writes: 44.










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