THE DEVIL SUGGESTS
Find out how many steps it takes to walk around your house
Measure your home in the least formal unit available: your own stride. It is not estate-agent accuracy, but it makes an ordinary route briefly interesting.
Do it
- Choose the route around the house and stick to it.
- Use a phone, watch or manual counter to count steps.
- Walk it three times at an ordinary pace.
- Record each result and work out the typical count.
- Compare routes if there is more than one way round.
What next?
Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.