The other night, just finishing my shift, I was approached by a superior saying that 'none of the bins in the department' had been...

It just so happened that on Wednesday, I was unfortunate enough to be in the car when Jeremy Vine (BBC Radio 2) was discussing cancer and...

This year, everything I've prayed and asked 'Him' upstairs for, has been duly delivered, except for the 'Bread and Butter', as Bob...

The aquaducts? Law and order? Sanitation? Medicine, wine, roads, to mention but a few of the things that Monty Python reminds us of. ...

It's been a month since the finish of the Brathay Ten in Ten. My mood has not abated, the sun is still shining a little brighter than...

Nail varnish is still on, scuffed, flaking but still on. There is some limited poignancy in that, still clinging to the laughs, the...

Who would have thought that by just keeping on, keeping on, the world could be a better place. Earlier today I posted my Day 9 diary of...

Whoever said this sh#t was easy? These were my thoughts and pains on the eve of day 10. What a difference a year makes. This morning, on...

26.2 miles. One a day. Every day for ten days. Am I having too much fun? Am I making it sound like it's easy? If you dare to respond...

Seven down and three to go (I keep telling myself two and a lap of privilege), as it stands 'Three is a magic number.' Coming in to this...

Remember visiting the fun fair, how exciting it was, throwing weighted darts at giant cards, or trying to Hook-a-Duck, or chucking ping...

Yesterday ended on a high. Not even drug induced, no excessive consumption of ibuprofen either (read last year's blogs). Not quite down...

Tentatively, I pen this, partly because I am touching on the memory of an individual who I was never fortunate enough to meet, the only...

Straw poll, who thinks it is acceptable to have gravy in a butty? Answers on a postcard but donations in support of gravy, much more...

Day 2 (Samedi, 11th May 2019) and it sure was going to be a beautiful day, yes sir, a beautiful day. Not too hot, not too cold, a very...

In the name of the father, son... Bathed in sunshine we were last year, even in 2017 when I did the Windermere Marathon the weather was...

Hate it! Left to my own devices I eat Pot Noodles, fish fingers or bacon butties, chocolate (lots of it and especially Snickers or...

After a 12-hour night shift, what you really want to do is get on your bike and cycle 25 miles home, right? What choice do I have? Self...

When I purchased my house two years ago, I knew that regardless of how well it suited me, I needed to change it. My mortgage company...

Push, push, push. Breathe! I remember holding hands with my beloved ex on each of those occasions when one of our children emerged from...