Tag: health

Running Again

I’m on the train heading back home after running 12.21km south towards Yokohama. I think it’s the furthest I’ve run since the Marathon in February, and the first time I’ve done over 10km since May. It’s extraordinary how out of shape I am. I used to have a really big barrier at 20km – that […]

Tom and I run our first 15km

Great day today. It started, in the beautiful autumnal morning sunlight, with Tom and I doing our first ever 15km run. This is a major achievement – I’ve never been a runner, and never would have thought that this year I’d be able to run 9.3 miles non-stop (ok, so I did stop briefly for […]

The fragility of health

I’m reminded tonight of the relative fragility of our health. Following a week of intense activity (otherwise known as ‘Overdoing it’ or ‘being a Tame’), dad is back in hospital with continuous angina attacks. I don’t know the details – should find out in the morning.  Another family that I’m very close to is also […]

The Exercise Project

This morning’s short jog, minus the first section where I was trying to get the GPS on the iPhone to work. Did a restart in the end.Have you tried regular exercise over a prolonged period of time? I think most people probably have. For me though, it’s a first. It’s still early days. The jogging-three-times-a-week […]

Offer: Reduced cost Lasik and place on Trailwalker Team 2009

*Twinkle*s laser eye surgery (‘Lasik’) has really turned out to be a great success. Whilst she was in a bit of discomfort for the few hours following the short op, by the next day she was doing OK (albeit not too fond of bright lights). A few weeks down the line and she’s feeling the […]

Lap time

Really enjoying this jogging thing. It started out as a weekly Sunday morning meet up with Tom, but now I've found the Olympic park I'm going three times a week. Unfortunately Tom was unable to make it this morning, but I went along in any case and joined the many men, women and children, young […]

IBC – Inflammatory Breast Cancer

As the number of people I know or know of who have been diagnosed with or who have died from cancer increases, so the idea that it’s only something that affects other people fades away. My attitude these days is very different to what it was ten years ago. Today I was sent a link […]

CELTA – it’s like a rocket-propelled knitting competition

Despite only getting to sleep shortly before 3am last night, and despite having not slept more than 5 hours in the previous 44 hours, I still woke up at 6.30am of my own accord. It’s been like this ever since I started CELTA. This is very unusual for me – normally I need a good […]

Monday 5am

Signs of Spring Yesterday at 4am myself, and 34 others who live in my block at Broad Lane Court, were rudely awoken by the ringing of bells. Doorbells. It was a little alarming, as our doorbells are quite loud; we can hear the neighbours’ bells almost as clearly as our own. All of them were […]

A Whizz Boing Pop day

I find it astonishing (and at times disturbing!) how much detail my camera lens can pick up. My hand doesn’t look so wrinkly to the naked eye, but an adjustment of the levels in the raw file shows the prints and lines in all their glory. I guess this is where photography is going now, […]

Remains of the Steering Wheel

The past week has seen my daily exercise routine somewhat curtailed by temporary responsibility for my friend’s car (which as no doubt you are tired of hearing, requires a lot of attention). But this morning, the car park refreshingly free of flat tyres, yellow tickets or vehicles supporting such accessories, I was able to get […]

Coping

As fresh as a Greek daisy. One of the first ever flower-shots I took, back in 1996 I’m glad I don’t usually have a car. Two parking tickets, a blow-out, and now today a section of the front bumper missing after someone reversed into me in the car park. I really am glad that on […]

Organic vegetables, Nelson Mandela, and your own thought processes

Ha. It’s another of those nights. Those nights when I go to bed, but feel so excited about everything and nothing that I have to get up again. Part of it’s the music, I know. I’m listening to Everything But the Girl – Walking Wounded. One of the few CDs I ever owned. Bought it […]