Well, not quite sure in what direction this new blogging impetus will take me, but let’s see. I promised to publish the final 2019 London Marathon blog post, but not yet. If the marathon can be postponed then so can my blog post. Today – Tuesday 24th March, 2020. I last blogged last Thursday – that seems like an age ago. Our lives were already changing in ways that we would never have imagined just a month earlier. For instance, last Tuesdays’ Egdon club night had fallen victim to the government’s changing stance on the pandemic, and then last Wednesday came the expected announcement that ..read more

I used to do a lot of this blogging, then it sort of stopped. That’s not to say I didn’t write anything – I did but for various reasons it never got around to getting published. And then along came this thing, and maybe a reason to enter the blogosphere again. Health And Wellbeing What of my physical health? Seems to me this is largely a case of pot luck. Should I contract this it is impossible to know how it will affect me. But if I play the odds then I know I am less at risk than many millions in this country. And then we wonder about our economic health. We’re wracked with uncer ..read more

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So onto (perhaps) the final blog post from London 2019 – the one where I try to tie it all together and make sense of it – the State Of The Nation Address. The one that Brian (if he starts reading it) will doubtless dismiss as pretentious claptrap (and probably fast-forward to the end!). I have to say I didn’t quite know where this would lead when I started writing it. But it kind of turned into the hardest post I’ve ever written, and (assuming that I do), the hardest to post. But Why Didn’t I Cry? London Marathon 2019 turned into a hugely emotional roller-coaster. The combination of ..read more