Chris Groves

Thanks dude, and super thank you for donating to the fundraiser! Appreciate it 🙌

Screenshot of a Strava run

Worth the 6:30am start on Saturday? Up for debate 😅 but good training done, and can spend the rest of the day on the sofa!

Photo of my Great North Run number, on a table in a garden

Yooooo it’s here!

My first Great North Run is next month, the second of three big runs this year for @specialeffect.org.uk. Would appreciate any donations below.

It’ll make tomorrow’s 6:30am start and 20k run worth it… 😅

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#running #charity

ICYMI, we announced a new football management game this week... NUTMEG!

Coming to PC via Steam in 2026 from Sumo Sheffield. Want to play sooner? Register your interest for our VIP playtester program ⤵️

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i just feel like because the world is in such a shit place, people should be a lot cooler to each other so that the microcosm of our daily lives don't have to be worse than they already are

Photos of Lola, our tortoise shell cat

Photos of Lola, our tortoise shell cat

Photos of Lola, our tortoise shell cat

Photos of Lola, our tortoise shell cat

Almost forgot to say we have a cat now. Pretty sure they’ll shut down my account if I don’t do that

Say hello to Lola 🧡

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WE ANNOUNCED A FOOTBALL GAME BABYYY ⚽

Welcome to NUTMEG! - a love letter to English men's football of the 80s and 90s. Management sim, meets deckbuilder, meets a whole lot of nostalgia 📺

It's been a total blast helping set up this reveal with the @wearesecretmode.com gang and more fantastic teams!

"Well, you have to say that's magnificent."

hehehehehehhhh 📼

Dead proud of myself for how I’ve managed everything this week

Need to normalise saying that

Just saw the first “book your Christmas party here” sign in town so I’m assuming I can put the tree up now?

Have had a throughly enjoyable 15 minutes checking out folks on LinkedIn posting variations of “What the Lionesses win can teach us about teamwork, marketing and HR platforms”

Oh yeah! Didn’t spot you but we were there quite late. Was great, always more tiring than I expect 😅

Trying to navigate job cuts in the games industry be like

Growing up is realising Panic! At The Disco’s album ‘Pretty. Odd’ is equally as brilliant as ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’, even though most of us emos hated it at the time

This weekend shall be spent running through a 5km inflatables course, then going to a buffet, and I am equally hyped for both.

I am 31 years old.

This is renaissance art

(may’ve lost my voice a bit watching this at the pub tonight)

My brain when I disassociate halfway through someone giving me an important instruction

Picture of a Mitsubishi Mirage Cyborg R

Great thing about playing old Gran Turismos is how you end up developing unbreakable bonds with dumb lil cars that win you big races

If I ever saw this Mitsubishi Mirage Cyborg R, I’d screech and cry like it’s 1964 and I’ve just seen The Beatles

Might complete the vibe by spinning up the NME Essentials 2006 CD and cracking open a Sunny Delight

Photo of a PlayStation 2 controller, and boxes for FIFA Street 2 and Gran Turismo 2

Better half is at at work party tonight, so these are my plans 🔥

Dudes criticising women’s football is nauseating at any time, but it’s absolutely wild to see men call it uncompetitive, boring, or unsupportive, straight after enthusiastically watching the damn Club World Cup

Just say you’re intimidated by talented women 🤷

you're gonna wanna see this

Photo of me holding a SpecialEffect banner before the London 10k 2025

Photo of me running during the 2025 London 10k

Running ability: 6/10

'Holding banners for photos' ability: 2/10

@specialeffect.org.uk 🙈

Picture of me after the London 10k

Picture of me running the London 10k

Picture of my timer for the London 10k, finishing on 44 minutes 57 seconds

We did itttt!!! London 10k 2025 is in the books, raising lots of fund for @specialeffect.org.uk 💙🧡

To make it even better, that’s a new PB, three seconds under my target 💪

One big run down, two to go this year!

Yes the TV cabinet is messy, no I don’t care. Peep the Critical Role recipe book from @seasaltpopsicle.bsky.social 👀

Picture of a television stand and a TV playing V-Rally 2

Parkrun and cleaning done. With the London 10k tomorrow, I intend being in a reclined position for the remainder of the day

Mostly playing games… starting with V-Rally 2!

The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes

Photo of a train platform with a Great Western Railway branded bench

Two trips to London in three days, let’s get it 🫡

Picture of flowerbeds in Perranporth, Cornwall

Picture of ducks in a lake in Perranporth

Picture of a stream in Perranporth, Cornwall

Weather hasn’t done its job in Perranporth, but we’re still enjoying it 🦆🌺