So it has come to this…1000 posts in less than 3 years (975 days, to be precise). In that time we have come quite far together:  712 pub stops, 4025 miles running (1740 unique miles in the UK, at that), almost 96000 views of this blog  (averaging about 200/day the last few months after slow [...]

I had the humbling experience of stumbling upon the boyhood home of a god among men, Arthur Stanley Eddington.  They say he used to kill crocodiles with his bare hands for sport.  Women and men, alike, would disrobe and lay prostrate before him when he entered a room, submitting to his insatiable, varied and highly [...]

We shot hundreds of photos on this trip, but once you pare out the shots for family, the detail photos of architectural and landscape features that probably only interest the two of us, and the ones from the marathon all that are left are a few things I shot with this blog entry in mind…so [...]

I knew about this before but this was the first time I’ve run past it (last week around lunchtime).  Impressive in its stupidity, no?

Update on 13th August 2011 — Okay, fair enough…some of you have taken offense at the smarmy tone of this post. I’m sure you will all feel vindicated by this ‘proper’ press article: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/13/edl-to-gather-in-telford_n_926111.html Telford is a shit hole.  There’s no two ways about it, and that’s a shame because for a new city it [...]

The long run was pleasant enough after the St Aldates Tavern and it eventually found me trotting down Cowley Road to the Cape of Good Hope where a looney was preaching to people in the garden whilst waving a blanket around.  Surely, the election is already over, I thought to myself and settled into a [...]

We were in Olney, a small market town about halfway between Milton Keynes and Northampton, to check out a museum for which Jackie might reorganise/modernise the research library and archives. The town was home to (and the museum devoted to) William Cowper (a poet and translator of Homer that was much admired by the likes [...]

We had a half hour to kill before the taping of the Vote Now Show (a special series of the Now Show, topical comedy and satire sort of like a British version of the Daily Show on radio) so we walked a few blocks up and ducked into the Horse and Groom.  This was a [...]

After a morning spent prowling the stolen antiquities at the British Museum we were a bit peckish and set off through the University of London neighbourhoods to try and find some nourishment, but wound up looping back to the area adjacent to Russell Square tube station before we found the Friend at Hand (actually there [...]

The day-trip to Aylesbury did little for the muscle spasms in my lower back, but we DID get some cool stuff.  At a store in Waddesdon (pronounced “Wadston” although it looks like you would say “What is done”) we got a convex wall mirror (Jackie thought the guy said it was a convict’s wall mirror) [...]