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(Sub)urban towpath running

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I’ve been away. Sorry. I’ve been running, and working, and not-working. And most definitely not writing. But hopefully I’m back now. Here’s a little something about running.

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New beginnings, or unintended consequences

Sunday, May 31, 2009

This week, I expect there will be some new readers of this blog. Welcome. Pull up a pew*. Although if you really believe that this is a church you are sorely misguided. But now I mention it, the Cult of Monk Quixote has a certain ring to it. So on second thoughts, pull up a pew, give me all your cash and start wearing odd clothes (you’ll soon discover that I believe the concept of things matching to be vastly over-rated). Anyhoo, welcome one and all. Or as is infinitely more probably, one.

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Ketchup karma's going to get you

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Don’t open ketchup bottles that have been in the sun all day.

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A different kind of Met investigation

Friday, May 15, 2009

Trotter based fun. I mean pun. I mean a serious commentary on modern politics. I mean a searing commentary. And we’re back on the pork. Seared pork. Mmm.

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Things I learnt in Devon

Sunday, May 10, 2009

These are some of the things that I learnt during a magical week in Totleigh Barton. (My eternal gratitude goes out to Chris at Salt Publishing for recommending I go on an Arvon course. Go buy amazing short stories and poetry collections from him now. )

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Snow days suspended

Monday, February 2, 2009

I didn’t get enough out of today. Not enough sleep. Not enough action. Not enough food. Fell somewhere between a snow day, a work day and an angst mountain.
Listy was very excited about the snow. And I had a snowball fight and helped build a snowman before 10am. But… but… I didn’t feel the excitement [...]

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Music that's bad for your health

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I’m sitting here listening to Glasvegas. As I have been for about six weeks, give or take the odd bit of manflu, work-hatred, non-running (still injured) and experiments in Nigella-worship.
And it’s simply not good for me. The huge sweeping guitars, the nursery rhyme lyrics, the Motown percussion bits, the thickly accented home truths. It makes [...]

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Running like a cock

Saturday, October 25, 2008

If there is anyone who has read this blog for a while, they will know that one of my favourite running maxims is ‘pride comes before a fall’.
I’ve been on a real high since Abingdon. My workplace has been sapping the joy out of my life for months, and the past few weeks in particular [...]

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We-think wii-think me-thing

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

An interesting day of many different culture clashes yesterday:
Walking up Fetter Lane (where they are endlessly building breeding pods for lawyers and accountants) there is a glass fronted building that faces the old Rolls Building. If you stop a minute, and the light’s right, you can see the Rolls reflected across its entire surface [...]

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Lost in translation

Friday, January 25, 2008

An odd day, an odd week.
Nearly 5,000 words written, translating between what people feel, what an organisation can and wants to say, a little personal opinion and a lot, a lot, of words.
On the tube – giving up my space for others, bloody-mindedly, ignoring etiquette.
In the supermarket – romanian man trying to explain the concept [...]

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