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HampshireH

Not done one of these beford I dont think.....

I will;

• Complete a minimum of 100miles Race at Your Pace bike/walk combo per month. (Did 6 months this year)
• Use my gym membership to spa/relax at least once a month
• Get back to reading books
• Clear credit card by May/June (interest free ends sept)
• Remortgage June
• Better work/Life balance (I say it every year but its a must this year)
• Get off my phone (it feels permanently attached)
• Save for an extension (this will be for a few years)
• Pay 6k off 10k loan (min 500 a month 0 interest)
• Enjoy life and not get too fixed on work worries

jackieblack

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

3) I'd also like to knit a temperature blanket for 2020

I had to google this to find out what a temperature blanket is, now I want to make one too! :j

gettingtheresometime

Dizzy_Ditzy wrote: »

2) walk some serious mileage.

In 2019 I completed virtual challenges for the ABF Soldiers Charity the 1st one was 50 miles, the same distance from Bletchley Park to London. Every 5 miles logged you got a puzzle to complete. The 2nd was 100km to represent the Western Front distance.

There's also a free 1000 mile challenge :

https://www.walk1000miles.co.uk/

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gettingtheresometime wrote: »

In 2019 I completed virtual challenges for the ABF Soldiers Charity the 1st one was 50 miles, the same distance from Bletchley Park to London. Every 5 miles logged you got a puzzle to complete. The 2nd was 100km to represent the Western Front distance.

There's also a free 1000 mile challenge :

https://www.walk1000miles.co.uk/

Thanks for this!

Dxxx

bellabella

Hi think i am going to join in this one and hopefully writen down it will make it easier
1: Loose weight hopefully 2 stone
2: Save £3k in a savings account
3: Get on top of a cleaning schedule
4: replace all kitchen doors and work tops
5: replace all downstairs flooring
6: spend more time with my mum

Barny1979

Stick to going to the gym, started before Christmas, rather than in NY, seems to be working so far.
Lose Weight, approximately 97kg currently.
Get better at running, reduce my parkrun times, PB is 34 mins approximately currently.
Reduce mortgage amount by over payments.
Average 10,500 steps per day.

jackieblack

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

3) I'd also like to knit a temperature blanket for 2020

jackieblack wrote: »

I had to google this to find out what a temperature blanket is, now I want to make one too! :j

Spent most of this afternoon sorting through existing stash of yarn, planning my colours and temperature brackets...
Additional yarn now ordered

gettingtheresometime

jackieblack wrote: »

Spent most of this afternoon sorting through existing stash of yarn, planning my colours and temperature brackets...
Additional yarn now ordered

Look forward to swapping pictures next January.:rotfl:

One tip I've picked up for doing projects like the temperature blanket is that you don't have to do the row(s) every day.

Just have a method of recording the temperatures so that you perhaps do them on a weekly basis.

I've also come across a website called timeanddate.com which details historic temperatures so plan on using this. I'm choosing midday as my base point....whether this is the right way of doing it who knows but it's my blanket so that's what I'm choosing to do.

SamSam17

Sadly, last year was bit of hit and miss.

But hope to do better next year:

The following are my targets for 2020:


Health
- Complete 2020 miles (Fitbit Tracker)
- Lose 10kg and maintain
- Run 5k once a week (every week) - Total- 53 runs
- Learn to swim (have started, but need to continue)

Personal development
- Do MCSA in BI reporting
- Learn Excel macros
- Learn Tableau
- Increase income via promotion / new job
- Read 12 books - 1 a month
- Create LinkedIn profile

Finance
- Pay off debt
- Save £20k

Here is to the new year! All the best everyone :beer::j:beer::beer:

jackieblack

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Look forward to swapping pictures next January.:rotfl:

One tip I've picked up for doing projects like the temperature blanket is that you don't have to do the row(s) every day.

Just have a method of recording the temperatures so that you perhaps do them on a weekly basis.

I've also come across a website called timeanddate.com which details historic temperatures so plan on using this. I'm choosing midday as my base point....whether this is the right way of doing it who knows but it's my blanket so that's what I'm choosing to do.

Yes, I thought about that, I use Accuweather and they have a table recording the high and low temperatures each day in a monthly table, although I’m going to try to do it each day if I can. I don’t usually knit in hot weather as I knit on circular needles and don’t want to sit with a blanket on my lap when it’s already hot, so if we have a very warm/hot spell I’ll take a break and catch up when it cools down.
I’m going to do the daily highest temperature for my postcode this year and next year I might do one using the lowest daily temperature do get a blanket with a cooler colour palette for my spare bedroom.

It’ll probably take me the whole year to work out how to post photos , if I can figure it out sooner I might try and include a ‘to date’ photo in my quarterly update...