Note: this seems to offend some.  Result! Paul WoodfordWondering why you posted that link. Was the fake photo the whole point? 3 hours ago · Like Updating the betting odds at the end of January 2012, we find a thinner pack at the top level but interesting things happening at the Republican Vice-Presidential table (although [...]

Heading back through Wroughton from the Fox and Hounds, the White Hart presented itself on the right.  I had only seen it in the dark from a bus and hadn’t realised what an attractive, old building it is. Inside it was hopping, with a couple of dozen folks spread out around the lounge and at [...]

Finished resealing the shower and reckoned I deserved a beer, but also still needed to get a Sunday run in.  I had not been outside since morning and thought it would have warmed a bit but it was still foggy and cold at 3 pm so to force a little internal heat I headed toward [...]

The run progressed from the Woodshaw, around the town centre, and back down the Swindon road toward my bus stop, a net 3.4 miles but with the stop at the Churchill only 3 uninterrupted miles. It is a big roadway eatery and looks like they offer pretty standard fare.  There is a five quid special [...]

I need structure when preparing for a marathon or an ultra, even something like the London Marathon which will probably require walking the first mile or so due to the crowd and, as a result, I will not really take too seriously (stopping a few pubs, run a couple of miles backwards, etc).  I’m following [...]

Burn’s Day: everyone has haggis, neeps and tatties.  Wetherspoon’s runs a special so you can get either a Talisker single malt (and a hip flask) or a pint of Caledonian with it, but I got both AND a 1/2 pint of Carling.  Happy Birthday Robbie! (Big lunch with a bunch of hashers, then off to [...]

My 2nd day of work at Cambridge everyone took tea late in the afternoon and watched Obama’s inauguration ceremony.  He’s been a bit disappointing, overall. Now it is another election year and it is time to air out my Kucinich for President gear, again, and start putting out my crude (and crudely rendered) political posters…like [...]

You go into these prefabricated places expecting (and rarely disappointed in that expectation) to find prefabricated people.  Such was Rudi’s, so I assumed that this airport bar-esque joint would be populated by folks that at least would understand the airport bar etiquette wherein dude-that-goes-off-by-self isn’t looking to make friends with anyone but his beer.  But, [...]

From the Three Crowns, I rolled downhill toward the rail then generally east but drifting north due to mismarked trails, finally reaching a roadway that would take me back to Royal Wootton Bassett for the bus home.  Another steep climb brought me onto the High Street (although I’m not too sure if that is what [...]

My run from Lyneham took some steep hills and at one point I plunged knee-deep into the cesspit of a large dairy…something the cat loved me for upon my eventual return home.  I passed through the hamlet of Sodom without finding a sign that it was indeed where I was; no pillars of salt, no [...]