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In the process of clearing out the 10,000 surplus emails in my inbox, I've come across another post that I wrote for someone else (in 20...

I've just spent a lovely weekend in the Peak District celebrating a friend's 50th birthday. As part of the festivities, some of us h...

2018 is a marathon year, with the London Marathon already looming large in the diary.... less than 110 days to go already....so apparentl...

This weekend, I'm off to Cambridge for a stag-do... which will likely consist of drinking, the races at Newmarket (which will mostly ...

I got a card through the letterbox the other day. It was advising me that there was a parcel for this address being held at the local sortin...

Worst. Boyband. Ever One of my oldest friends was over from Canada last week, so we headed down to Oxford to meet up with all the old g...

At around 1am on Saturday morning, I found myself running around a wooded, hilly trail course in the Derbyshire countryside.  It was pour...

MS is a sneaky condition. Yesterday, I was running a half marathon and generally feeling on top of the world; today I set out to run a qui...

Have you ever found yourself caught in a conversation that you wish you hadn't started? One of my colleagues started dating a guy who ...

I don't seem to get lie-ins any more.  Like any self-respecting teenager, I used to consider it something of an outrage if I had to be u...

Rather than go on at great length about our recent trip to Switzerland, Germany and Austria, I'm just going to leave you with some photo...

We went round to a friend's house for dinner on Sunday evening.  It was a lovely evening: my friend and his wife are Hungarian, and we w...

I was catching up with friends over the weekend. The main event was watching the Wales v South Africa Rugby World Cup quarter final match at...

It’s not very often that you go away for a holiday and come back to work feeling as though you’ve had a much longer break than you actual...

As usual, I spent a few days last week watching the cricket. As a member at Trent Bridge, I had secured tickets for all of the scheduled...

My friend Tony is something of a photography buff, and he took many fantastic photos documenting our time in Scarborough (his wife is in the...

The view from the castle The salad I had for my lunch today had a lovely sticker on it proclaiming “Tastes of the British Isles”. Thi...

My wife isn’t a big drinker. It’s not that she doesn’t drink, it’s just that she’s quite happy not to drink. When we’re out of an even...

As is now a completely acceptable pastime (and as I mentioned in a comment on yesterday's post), I spent a reasonable part of yesterday ...

I'll probably have more to say on this subject on another day.... for now, suffice it to say that I love my friends and I love this f...