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Five miles at a time

Joe Jaworski, son of the lawyer who indicted Nixon, suggests that by opening ourselves to the possibilities in the world around us and responding to the subtle signs we then see, we can induce predictable miracles to happen around us.  That’s how I felt this week.

Having written about the power of smiling and [...]

Thinking about it

I’ve been thinking.

Sure, we are all thinking about something from moment to moment, but I wonder how many people sit down to deliberately think about one thing?

In fact, since I sold out of my marketing business in 2007 and have been thinking in a more focused way about thinking, I’ve observed that [...]

Plenty to smile about

I was humbled that, at Christmas, my folks thanked me for my psychological support during last year.  I find it interesting that that despite being a highly evolved species, it is often the simple stuff that makes a difference to how we think and how we feel.

Take smiling for example.  It may be [...]

FosterRuns is FOUR!

Happy Birthday to Foster Runs!  Once again, this post is more a mental note for myself, but you might also find it interesting.

Number of years: FOUR!  I doubt if Dai Thomas expected it to still be going after four years when he helped me start it back in 2007!

Number of posts: 83 (110 [...]

Congraduations

I think that it’s well worth mentioning that Kim’s daughter Karen graduated from University of Westminster with a BA Hons in Contemporary Media Practice and we attended her ‘Graduand’ ceremony last week.

She has long had a great eye for photographic composition and although she has become a first class photographer, her love is Art [...]

12 beers of Christmas

Picture courtesy of www.karenstoreyphotography.com

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Good Health!

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Yikes!

My overused Crocs have long required replacement, but since the original charcoal grey seems to be unavailable, Kim decided to give my feet a subtle makeover.

Third birthday statistics

This is more a mental note for myself, but you might also find it interesting.

Number of posts: 110 ( 102 in year 2, 156 in year 1 – I’ll report the figures this way around below to make it easy to see any progression)

Number of runs: 92 (63, 67) although to be fair I [...]

Wivelsfield Woodland Wobble results

The full results can be found here but the key data is as follows:

Foster came 136th out of 293 runners in a time of 38.14

Colin, who I met after the finish, beat me by just over two minutes and 36 places.

In first place was Louis Taub in a time of 26.41, whilst [...]