Doing the best that I can, at writing, running and living
Well, that was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Given that the forecast was for a 70% precipitation probability, I had expected glowering clouds, and a wetness akin to yesterday’s run. Instead, as I picked up Alex, it was still kind of dry, and the air, as we got… Continue reading Hilbre Island + Yorkshire MT – Week 3
Let me begin with the negatives of today’s run, and there were a few. Fail number one: when I got out the house, half an hour later than I wanted but still in time to run to Parkrun, the first two miles seemed not to have registered on my Runkeeper app. I had to stop… Continue reading Five Fails
This week I felt something. No, don’t worry. My calf muscle didn’t seize up and my hamstring didn’t ping. Quite the opposite in fact. I realised that I am getting stronger. There is probably a way of measuring this more scientifically, but I don’t need to see the metrics, I could feel it. By the… Continue reading Yorkshire MT – Week 2
Well, how did that happen? I thought I had loads of time over the rest of spring and summer to do a few different things before training for the second marathon this year but the time has whizzed by, and I’m already at the end of Week 1 of round two! More like fell walking… Continue reading Yorkshire MT – Week 1
I’m just having a moment to sit down after mowing the lawn. Having got home yesterday afternoon, we’ve come back to quite a wild garden because, apparently, the Wirral has had a lot of rain last week. It just shows how lucky we were on our trip down south that, aside from a little sprinkling… Continue reading Cornwall – Tintagel (on the way home)
St Ives St Ives is one of the bigger towns in West Cornwall, but even here the roads next to the coast, where everybody gravitates towards, are still as tiny and windy as the bendy, narrow numbers of Newlyn and Mousehole (pronounced ‘mouzal’). We popped in to those two places with the car on Monday… Continue reading Cornwall – The Rest of our Visit
Yesterday inadvertently turned into History Corner with a couple of trips to sites bearing witness to Cornwall’s past. Having now purchased some milk the night before, we could relax and take our morning cups in the jovial Port Meirion 'Crazy Daisy' crockery that the house contained. It was a Sunday after all and neither of… Continue reading Cornwall – Carn Euny and Botallack
I haven’t done any travel blogging for a while, mainly because we haven’t done much in the way of travelling, so as we're down in the depths of Cornwall for a week I thought I would. Friday – Driving We knew, despite Google Maps suggesting it would take six and a half hours, that the… Continue reading Cornwall – Land’s End and Sennen Cove
I’ve just eaten my first KFC in two years. I get a yearning for it once in a while because I have this childhood memory – probably a false one – that it was a tasty treat of a meal. When I was a kid, we used to have the occasional takeaway – pizza, fish… Continue reading Sandringham Half – and Fried Chicken
This morning, I read a short story by Shirley Jackson. She’s famous for The Haunting of Hill House. Today’s story was called The Lottery. It apparently elicited the biggest post bag the New Yorker magazine had seen for a piece of fiction. Jackson said, later, that there were only a few positive ones, and they… Continue reading Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
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