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A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

I didn't realise until just now, but today I reached the arbitrary milestone of 350 parkruns. 301 at @cannonhparkrun.bsky.social

The Talented Mr Ripley, yesterday at Birmingham Rep. Clever production, a brilliant performance from Ed McVey as Tom Ripley.

Program for Abigail's Party.

A fantastic production of Abigail's Party at @crescenttheatre.bsky.social

Hilariously funny, but you feel all the frustrations simmering away, the constant jostling for status and the pain

This is incredible!

Me (middle aged man in glasses) in a blue running vest that says "Birmingham Swifts".

Today was my 300th parkrun at Cannon Hill.

never trust a unit test that passes on the first try

Every book in Planetfall is challenging, and left me thinking about them for days after finishing them. Each one is fantastic, and all very different, filling in a bit more of the world. The characters are really well realised throughout the sequence.

I came across "Redshirts", absolutely loved it, read and enjoyed bunch of other stuff. Eventually came across you on twitter "organically" and followed, but actively looked for you here.

I have clad myself *completely* in green today, from head to toe like some kind of corporate forest spirit. Green shirt, green trousers, green sweater. Even green shoes. I really like green, but on reflection this is a bit much.

Me, posing with pudsey bear. I'm in running kit, swirly yellow shorts, white trainers, orange cap and maroon hoody.

Me, posed on the Manchester waterfront. I'm a middle aged white male wearing an orange cap, glasses, maroon hoody.

Me holding my medal. I'm in a blue running vest that says "Birmingham Swifts".

Me holding my medal. Orange cap, blue running vest with orange diagonal stripe saying "Birmingham Swifts". It's a sunny day with blue skies.

Manchester marathon yesterday was tough! It was very warm by the end, and I got cramp from around 36km but I managed to get a PR by the skin of my teeth. The people of Manchester were absolute stars, supportive and so generous.

Group of runners, mostly smiling.

Final long run before Manchester. Thanks everyone, the company really helped along the way.

Me, a man in glasses wearing a blue hoody and a pink hi viz vest. There's a reservoir in the background.

Blue sky with some clouds, sunlight reflected in the water. Trees silhouetted against the sky.

Swan in the water

Beautiful morning at Edgbaston Reservoir. Celebrating a decade of running parkrun by marshaling, and with cake and chocolates.

Saving the legs for 32km run tomorrow. Ulp.

Screenshot of the 5k app, with a parkrun birthday of 4th April 2015.

Today it's 10 years since I rocked up to Cannon Hill Park and did my first ever parkrun. I thought I'd only do one, as a stepping stone in 10k training. Something just clicked with it, since I've done it another 329 times since. I'll celebrate tomorrow marshaling at Edgbaston Reservoir.

Group of 11 runners sitting and standing by the Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham. It's a sunny day with blue skies.

Today's long training run was pretty tough. 30k, but it was the last 5k at tempo that took everything I had. Hoping it helps when I need to dig deep at the end.

Roughly one month to go, now.

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I finally completed stopwatch bingo at Parkrun today.

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That's great!

I use it when I go into the office which is nearby. I don't like using it in the dark, especially in winter - the surface is quite poor and there are piles of leaves potentially hiding potholes. I was surprised when it was made permanent last year that it wasn't resurfaced.

Well deserved congratulations!

That sounds delicious!

We are so bad at understanding invisible disabilities even exist, it must be awful. I'm sure your kids know they are loved and cherished.

I'm really very sorry to hear that. So many people lost so much to that virus.

Five years ago today we were told to work from home for two weeks. It was slightly more than two years before we went back to the office.

28km training run for Manchester Marathon today. It was an absolutely beautiful day, but really glad to have had running buddies to keep me going when it got tough. Half way through the training now.

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Tyneside flat - Wikipedia

Newcastle has lots and lots of "Tyneside Flats", though I think each flat has its own door.

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

The first computer I had. It taught me a lot.

Thank you, that's a very useful thread.

This is such sad news. I also greatly loved "Small World" and the others in the trilogy (I wonder if I was even influenced in my eventual move to "Rummidge" by the campus trilogy).