I said to myself I'd at least blog every long yomp, if not all the podcasts I listened to. You would think I'd know myself better by now. But how else ya gonna get outa bed if you aren't riddled with self-delusion? Yesterday I left the house at about 0940. I was wearing a weighted... Continue Reading →
Swans, Ayn Rand, Elon and body parts: latest #canalyomp (5hrs 20mins!?)
tl;dr - review of 8hrs of podcasts, interspersed with pics of Swans and so on. Continue at your own peril Hmm. This took summat out of me. I may not be as young or as fit as I was. (1) Left at 1120, returned 1640, basically non-stop yomping, with 11kgs of coins in the weighted... Continue Reading →
Four moorhens and a fun… lot of podcasts (Cleaning Up, Apocalypse etc)
As I get older, I am learning to pace myself. Wasn't feeling 100% yesterday arvo (did Dr Termagant give me her bally cold?), so didn't go to gym. And this morning, didn't wear weighted jacket or backpack with bricks while went to feed the moorhens/ducks/swans before heading to the gym for a light-ish session. Probably... Continue Reading →
Goslings, Allende, Calvino, Moorhens, fucking Captain Planet, Orwell and Weil (podcasted yomp on canal)
Four hours 34 minutes with weighted jacket (11ish kilos) and 2 bricks in a daypack. Also, sensibly for once, 2 litres of water consumed in hour 3. Goslings - 18-20 of the blighters, cared for in a "creche'. I will put video footage on Twitter and then link back if I remember/am asked. Podcasts (in... Continue Reading →
Simone Weil, cygnets, goslings and a heron in flight
A short walk, and not in the Hindu Kush. Just to the marina and back (roughly 80 minutes). Weighted jacket and two bricks, as usual. Listened to the end of a podcast about James Baldwin (interesting comparisons with his essay "Notes of a Native Son" and Ginny Woolf's "A Room of One's Own.") Then a... Continue Reading →