The moorhens continue to fascinate. Many of the "smudges" (what the wife and I call the babies, all black fluff and sphericality) seem not to have made it to adolescence - "nature red in tooth and claw" and all that). I am back in the habit of morning yomps (weighted jacket full of coins and... Continue Reading →
[Sobs] My illusions shattered. I've just seen two moorhens having a go at each other over food They were next to the towpath, on the grass. (yes, crappy photo - cameraphone, poor light etc) I was able to throw them food and not feed the ducks. [Ducks are, in my opinion, the humans of the... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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