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I used to drive to the office.It was a 40 minute trip and consumed a tank of diesel a week. Now I walk to work. It takes 30 minutes. I have over the last two weeks only used a half a tank of fuel.

My walk to and from work takes me past Lincoln Cathedral. It’s a beautiful building. I am very lucky.

When I drove to work I would keep an eye on the time using the clock on the dashboard. Wouldn’t make much difference as to when I arrived mind you. Totally depended on the traffic.

Now that I walk to work I can if I so choose check the time as I pass the Cathedral. There is a sundial. It isn’t particularly accurate but there again it doesn’t particularly matter what time I get to work:)

Of course the sundial doesn’t work when it is cloudy and under those (extremely rare – this is Lincoln) circumstances I can pick up the time from my phone – it gets it from somewhere in the cloud. Today I start monitoring my progress using Runkeeper. Stay tuned.

Click on the picture for a close up of the sundial.

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Trefor Davies

By Trefor Davies

Liver of life, father of four, CTO of trefor.net, writer, poet, philosopherontap.com

One reply on “Working time”

Very nice.

If you haven’t been already I’d recommend a trip to York and a walk round York Minster, a truly awe inspiring building both inside and out.

I really must get round to uploading the pictures I took when I was last there to one of the photo sharing sites (will add a link here when I do if that’s alright) but best not this month as I’ve been hammering a certain satellite broadcaster’s IPTV service to watch lots of good stuff and am in the process of setting up a new Sat Nav for a relative and it seemingly is downloading a few gigs of data, a check on my usage last night showed I’d used 45 GB already and although I’m technically unmetered I don’t want to risk a souring of the good relations between myself and the small ISP I use.

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