Anne Akers

Supporting at the #AbbeyDash #Leeds today, just short of the 6k mark. #oveparkrun #HydeParkHarriers #RunForAll

The light switches are redundant We don’t need a working light switch in the house, because, as if by magic, the lights come on when you need them. Not only that, but the lounge blind makes a stately descent each evening as …

Blogging about our smart(ish) home. Someone is very clever (not me!)
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#Borage #boragoofficinalis and #herbrobert #geraniumrobertianum growing happily beside the bins in #Calverley #Leeds #urbanbotany

We love our #parkrun at #WoodhouseMoor, especially when it's wearing its #autumn coat. Thank you, #LeedsParks #loveparkrun

#OtleyChevin showing off its #autumn colours. #Leeds #Yorkshire

#Autumn in #CalverleyWoods #Leeds . Lots of #beech #lime and #oak with the odd #sweetchestnut

Bradford’s the winner Where better to host the UK’s famous Turner Prize, a celebration of contemporary art, than the birthplace of (in my humble opinion) the world’s greatest living artist? David Hockney was…

Blogging about the #TurnerPrize coming to #Bradford. It's rather ace. #CityofCulture
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A lovely run around #LightNight #Leeds. What a fantastic event, thank you #LeedsCityCouncil

#CalverleyWoods #Leeds. My run route this morning.

Therapy for feeling like sh1t…… Noel and I are shouting at each other. Proper shouting. Thank goodness we have super-thick Yorkshire store walls and double glazing so the neighbours and passers-by can’t hear the commotion. …

Blogging about dealing with my Mother of All Colds...
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It's very spidery in the garden today. Very spidery. #Leeds #Yorkshire #autumn

A happy (but soggy) parkrun birthday Singing Happy Birthday Woodhouse Moor parkrun! Photo: Lizzie Coombes Twelve hours to go and the wind’s whipping around the houses, ripping the leaves off the trees and sending the wheelie bin…

My blog about our birthday parkrun
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Singing #happybirthday to #WoodhouseMoor #parkrun #Leeds. We're 18 today, and we didn't let #StormAmy stop us....though it was a bit wet and breezy! #loveparkrun

DO NOT DISTURB! I'm reading #RichardOsmans new #ThursdayMurderClub book, hot off the press. And of course I bought it from my local independent bookshop #TrumanBooks #Farsley

The best art in Leeds? We have a lot of art in Leeds, we’re a very arty city. Blimey, we even have an Arts University. We have galleries in the city, galleries in the suburbs, sculptures in pavements and in car par…

Blogging about the BEST art in Leeds - IMHO
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What’s in a number? Celebrating 450 with George (161!) There’s an entire Facebook group devoted to parkrun statistics. I accidentally joined it once, I don’t know what came over me, maybe it was curiosity …

Blogging about my 450th #parkrun
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My show-and-tell garden We do like to look around posh gardens. When I say posh, I mean big gardens with fancy plants and trees, all labelled with their Latin names in italics on little signs. If you need to ask their com…

Blogging about my garden
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Looking forward to #SpinalTapII . Photo taken at the gorgeous #HimalayanGardensAndSculpturePark #NorthYorkshire

#Tomato growing in the gutter on Calverley Lane #Leeds. Folk often park here to scoff their fast food takeaway, chucking rubbish out of the window, maybe that's where it came from.

I’m SOOO sorry for your loss We were sure Tim, our parkrun King of Coffee, would understand. He knows the heartache of the spluttering, stuttering and spitting. He recognises the signs of decline when all you get is thin black…

Blogging about our new #Sage #coffee machine....
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One of the gazillion reasons I #loveparkrun are the people you meet. Yesterday at #WoodhouseMoor, we met Anthony and Nigel, who were visiting from #Eire. They had run every parkrun over there, raising £12k for Alzheimer's into the bargain.

Growing and thriving in the gutter of the busy Leeds to Shipley Road, I'm 100% sure this #snapdragon seeded from my over-the-door planter. There's also some in a neighbour's garden.

Every runner needs a Bob What with injury, apathy and an inability to motivate myself to tie up my running shoes and set off for a blast around the woods, I’ve been a poor excuse for a runner these past few months. N…

Blogging about Bob, my #parkrun encourager
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Record-breaking Interrailing It was rude not to. Interrail offered us a huge reduction on the first class ticket-to-ride around Europe to countries of our choice. Our first adventure a couple of years ago had taken us to Franc…

Blogging about Interrailing.
Record-breaking Interrailing
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#FlyingAntDay here in #Leeds. A couple of weeks earlier than last year.

You go all the way to Denmark, do a #parkrun and who should scan my barcode, but Jean, Event Director at Bramley, Leeds. #loveparkrun

Thank you, and I will!

When a challenge gets out of hand….. A year ago, I couldn’t have told you a thing about seaweed, except that it wraps around my legs and smacks me in the face if I ever venture to swim in the sea. Nor could I have warned you abo…

Blogging about #30DaysWild which became a 365-day labour of sketching love. stripeyanne.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/w...

Spotted at the edge of the village football field in #Calverley near #Leeds. Cardamine pratensis #cuckooflower #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

One of the many reasons I #loveparkrun. We'll celebrate anything and everything! Congratulations to Jo on her 600th! #woodhousemoor #parkrun