For one reason or another (a trampoline-park-related incident may have been involved), I didn’t actually run any of the races I’d signed up to this year. BUT at some point last month I realised that the Gutbuster, a fabulous muddy 10-mile/10-km race just up the road from us, was taking place on 31 December for […]
Continue readingA long old journey down from Manchester to Hampshire today, most of it in freezing fog. Three things made it more bearable: fully charged tablets with new games downloaded for kids in back seats broke journey with one of my oldest bestest friends near Oxford – panettone, coffee, good conversation and a nice clean loo […]
Continue reading2016 will surely go down as one of the most dismal years of all time for untimely celebrity deaths. As someone on my Facebook feed pointed out this morning: ‘I’m scared to switch on the internet. Every time I do someone dies.’ There have been two deaths over this Christmas period that struck me particularly […]
Continue reading…and what are you doing? Here are my plans for these glorious unstructured days between Christmas and New Year: 1. run and blog every day (the normal rules of life may not apply, but the streak continues) 2. do a jigsaw. I’m not even quite sure why, but every year at around this time the […]
Continue readingI only recently discovered this Christmas prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson – now seems a good time to share it. Happy Christmas, blog readers, and thanks for being here. I hope your Christmas is merry and bright. Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of angels, […]
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