The Celtic festival of Samhainn brings the end of the harvest season and the start of the winter. Beltane – the end of winter – feels a long way away at the moment but the […]
With a wee flourish
building a life less ordinary
Wtf?
It has been a weird few weeks, months even since I ran the Great Glen. My body let me know in no uncertain terms that it didn’t want to run very far, and I listened. […]
October
Somehow it’s the middle of October, and going by how quickly the year has flown by so far, it’ll be Hogmanay before I know it. This has been one of the most hectic years I’ve […]
September
I started writing this post a couple of weeks ago when September had just arrived. It’s one of my favourite months of the year. Not just because my birthday is in September and I normally […]
Tuesday afternoon tea
The feeling of being in control that I wrote about recently has long gone, as I suspected it would. Recovering from the Great Glen has hit me in a few unexpected ways and I’ve had […]
little things
A few people close to me are having a really, really tough time at the moment. When life is throwing what feels like the worst of everything at you, I think it’s really important to […]
The emergence of Must
Last April, I became aware of a Thing called the 100 Day Project. It was created by the artist Elle Luna, partly as a follow up to her book The Crossroads of Should and Must, […]
World, keep on turning
There’s an almost back-to-school feeling in the air lately. The race is run. Not almost run, like in the song, but actually run. The immediate recovery is complete, and now it’s right back to normality. […]
Another big one
When I started this blog last year after deciding my old one had come to an end, I thought I’d be writing about running a lot. It’s one of the things that’s most important in […]
Crossing the border…again
I was tired on Sunday morning. I hadn’t done much the day before, other than sitting and reading and having a steady mooch round a National Trust property with my mum. But I had 6 miles […]
