2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 13 April 2026

Simon Morgan-Wilson

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Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Work and adjacent things, running and health, culture, home improvements, and personal stuff. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there.

Last week's note.

Running

19.53km. Three runs: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Lots on but not good enough. Same old rule ignored: On a weekday get out early on or you won't get out at all. Rule proven. I hit Friday needing 30km for my weekly target – a stretch.

Eased in the Asics Trabuco 14s in Saturday is sloppy conditions. Like their vibe so far.

This week I'm planning roughly 50km. Every day, steady, all it needs.

General

A new sash window in the kitchen of our house in Saltaire, looking out into the yard.

We have a complete set of new windows in the house now, amazing. It's great having every window in the house actually open and not look like they're about to disintegrate. Just - just - the doors left, which are about £5k in total. 💸

Pre-match from the away end at Chesterfield's stadium under floodlights, showing the pitch and main stand with a crowd gathered under an overcast evening sky.

Football: Took the lad to Chesterfield for Grimsby on Tuesday, a missed chance for Town to pull closer in the table to the Spirerites. Could've equalised in the last minute, didn't, wouldn't have deserved the point tbh. 2-1 defeat.

Idlewild on stage at the "intimate" Foundry at Sheffield uni, Roddy centre stage flanked by band members, viewed to the side from within the crowd.

Date night in Sheffield on Thursday for Idlewild. They were grand. Not as many tracks from the new album as I expected. The spiky A Film For the Future getting an airing. We need to work out a better way of coexisting with tall people at gigs though.

Added another Open Bench. Spotted a few at Roberts Park that aren't on there yet.

Fell into an internet rabbit hole about people making homes in trees.

A freshly made wooden raised planter bed positioned on top of a stone wall in the front garden, the Victorian stone buildings of William Henry Street visible behind.

Weekend was lots of gardening with Kristin (including: made a strawberry planter too for out front where the sun hits in the afternoon; potatoes into some tubs onto the top of one of the outhouses), watching Grimsby beat Gillingham 4-1 while I cleaned the kitchen shelves and lots more doorframe stripping (round three, about three more rounds to go, getting there).

Interior doorframe mid-restoration, stripped back to reveal layers of old paint in yellows and browns. This is actually a lot of progress.

Watched the new Malcolm in the Middle, just four episodes, felt like the energy of a few other episodes squeezed in too, good fun. Started Wonder Man, which I am digging (and reminding me I need to keep picking through The Studio).

Next week

Cambridge on Tuesday for the Town game (three league games left), Carl Cox and the Prodigy in Leeds on Wednesday for some midweek exercise, Experimentation North, getting the front wall repointed, try and watch Akira's re-release at the flicks, Town v Swindon, taking Nate back to uni. Relentless stuff at the moment.