How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

Easiest is the Llanberis path with the caveat it is the longest, more or less follows the train track so the gradient is not too bad.

The other 5 recognised routes are more interesting but do have more challenging sections.

www.visitsnowdonia.info/snowdon-walking-routes

I remember, good for you. 

I think as noted previously the easiest route while long is pretty manageable. Just don't be that person trying to do it in flipflops and having to get rescued 

There's some sort of varsity festival at the University this weekend, so the city centre has been alive today with Morris dancing.

I know some of the chaps in the local 'side', and would happily join, but green slacks don't suit me.

Shame, really. It would be nice to have a legitimate reason to wield a big stick whilst in drink. I got six months last time! 🤪

I’m an idiot.
Going to be travelling the week before/day of Mother’s Day, so in an attempt to be organised at the weekend thought I’d order some flowers from Moonpig now to be delivered on the day.

Just got the ‘your package will be delivered today’ email.

Bugger!!

Must have not saved the change to the delivery option properly.

Could be someone trying to take over your account.

If you get a message from someone saying that they're locked out of their account and they need your help trying to get it back, and they say you'll be sent a code that you need to forward to them, ignore it. It's a scam. (This applies even if it's a friend messaging you.)

It’s never locked me out, but it did once decide that I was pressing like on too many pictures and froze the ability to do that for something like three days.

Not a great start today. Got into work for 8.15am, had a LFT and was sat back on my couch for 9.30am after testing positive for COVID. Thankfully symptoms are pretty mild with just a bit of a cold at the moment. On a positive note, at least I'll get good use out NETFLIX and DISNEY+ rather than subjecting myself fo the daytime tv offerings.

There are some roadworks near me, with single lane working and traffic lights. They're quite long roadworks so the lights spend a couple of minutes on each phase in order to get a decent amount of traffic through. As I was approaching them today I was reminded that the last two times I went this way the light turned red just as I got there and I end up waiting at the head of the queue watching all the other cars disappear into the distance.

Sure enough, just as the car two ahead of me passed the lights they started to change and I ended up being the first car waiting again. I think these lights have it in for me.

I popped out at luncheon to see that Matt Goss from Bros. He's very popular with women of a certain age...much like myself!

Had a weird encounter on the underground tonight, walking down the passage in Green Park between the Piccadilly and Victoria lines. A young guy approached me saying he’s trying to get to Finsbury Park. Said I don’t know where that is, so he said it again “Fins-buh-ree Park” as if he couldn’t believe I didn’t know the place. Told him again I don’t know. Seemed to accept it this time, then put his hand out for fist bumping, which I did, even though I’d rather not. Then he said he’d had some trouble, showed me he’s missing a front tooth and that he’s got quite a lot of dried blood all over his top, which I hadn’t noticed before as I was looking at his face. Now, any stranger approaching me makes me suspicious, but this was too much. I was already trying to walk a little faster to get away from him, but now more so. As I moved ahead he kept calling out stuff like “chin up, mate” and “walk with confidence.” I got up the stairs two at a time and went as far down the platform as I could before the train left, don’t know if he was still following at that point. The whole thing made me a bit paranoid.

He may well have been genuine, but in that case why wasn’t he asking anyone else for help. There’s plenty of signage and dozens of other people about, so why ask me? I’ve been hassled before when I gave a homeless man some change and then he wouldn’t leave me alone, and a couple of times in Liverpool with homeless people again. Is it just that I’m on my own? Does that make me an easy target? I’m 6ft-ish with an angry-looking relaxed face 😠 you’d think that would make people leave me alone if anything.

Also your height might make you a bit of a target for those idiots who look for trouble. Sorry you had this bother.