So, today marks the beginning of the end of the journey I have been working towards for the majority of 2023. Every training session has been leading up to this, and every race has been a tune-up for this moment. I arrived…
So, today I had my first taste of how I will react to being a father to a girl. My current girlfriend (she loves it when I refer to her as that) took our daughter for her first soft play visit. Every…
Today we had to take Olivia to an appointment at Great Ormond Street Hospital to speak to a plastic surgeon regarding her operation to remove her unusual birthmark. Unusual as in the doctors were concerned at how big and dark it was….
I woke up today ready to tackle a 7-mile long run (it is a long run for me with my current journey back to fitness) through Epping Forest. I have started doing my Sunday runs through Epping Forest in a bid to…
Tomorrow is the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and I have never felt this underwhelmed about a football tournament since I started following football in the late eighties. And I am not alone. I have yet to see a…
The world is still coming to terms with the news that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. This is something that will take some time to filter through people as she was a big part of our lives. It would be nice…
For several months now I have been trying to arrange for a weekly garden waste collection from my local council, and all this time I have been hitting a proverbial brick wall. They keep telling me that my address is not eligible…
Regular readers of this blog will no doubt know all too well about my passion for long distance running, but what many of you may not be aware of is my passion for walking and hiking. When I am not running around…
It was a lovely relaxed day today. I took the missus and the two youngest ones to a pub for lunch and a couple of beers. Ruddles at £0.99 a pint? I was seriously thinking about living in the pub until after…
It felt odd not being at work today. I have been volunteering to work weekends for the last month or so to make some extra money, so being able to wake up at 8am (yes that is a lay-in for me) was…
