‘Lessons in Chemistry’ by Bonnie Garmus

A bit late to the party with this one. People were raving about it about six months ago.

I quite liked it.

Elizabeth Zott is not your average 1960s woman. She’s a chemist, a single-mother and knows what she wants. Her daughter, Mad, is equally strong and independent, and when you throw in her dog, Six-thirty, you get a really interesting read.

‘The Daves Next Door’ by Will Carver

I love Will Carver!

This book didn’t disappoint. It was dark, funny and very original.

A suicide bomber, riding the Circle Line, waiting for the right moment to detonate his bomb. Parallel to this, the lives of seemingly unconnected characters about to collide.

Definitely worth a read.

Here is the annual facts and stats blog post following this year’s Juneathon.

In the past I’ve done the run every day and I’ve done the activity every day. So this year it was attempting to do a different activity every day. There was some success.

• Day 1 – run – 3 miles
• Day 2 – coastal walk – 7 miles
• Day 3 – Holkham Parkrun
• Day 4 – bike ride – 5 miles
• Day 5 – school track run – 3 miles
• Day 6 – treadmill run – 3 miles
• Day 7 – park exercise machines
• Day 8 – garden weights session – 30mins
• Day 9 – exercise bike – 30mins
• Day 10 – Gorleston Cliffs Parkrun
• Day 11 – garden circuits – 30mins
• Day 12 – a fast mile – 6.35
• Day 13 – arms and abs video workout – 30mins
• Day 14 – early morning run – 3 miles
• Day 15 – plogging – 4 miles
• Day 16 – indoor exercise bike in front of the TV – 30mins
• Day 17 – early morning 80th birthday celebration run – 3 miles
• Day 18 – football kick-about with my nephews
• Day 19 – woods run – 2.5 miles
• Day 20 – evening run – 3.3 miles
• Day 21 – sports day javelin afternoon
• Day 22 – grass mowing and press-ups
• Day 23 – run – 3.6 miles
• Day 24 – longer bike ride – 12 miles
• Day 25 – run – 5 miles
• Day 26 – yoga
• Day 27 – run – 3.3 miles
• Day 28 – legs video workout – 30mins
• Day 29 – hill reps
• Day 30 – pilates

Today: pilates.

It was nice to finish on a new activity for the month and something slightly more relaxing.

The annual Juneathon facts and stats blog post will appear imminently…

Today’s activity is a run, but definitely counts as a different activity: hill reps.

Been putting off for most of the month because it has been far too warm. But with tomorrow being the last day of the month it had to be done.

So after work I got changed and headed straight to the only hill in the village! It was a half mile warm up getting to the ‘hill’.

Completed 6 reps.

Ran back.

Done.

‘Nowhere on Earth’ by Nick Lake

Teenage fiction. Got it a while back at a school book fair.

It starts with a plane crash.

Then turns into a fight for survival. A teenage girl and her younger brother face being hunted down.

But everything is not as it seems. A story of survival, hope and love. Great little read.