Well that was a funny old year. Obviously, outside of my own direct experience it was in many ways a horrible nasty little year – best forgotten.
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Brilliant, brilliant, lovel...
Anyway, I had my inguinal canal patched up.
I am not a hypochondriac bu...
Over the last few weeks I have been struggling to get rid of a bad cough.
And so it begins.
As alluded to previously, I had a good Christmas. Knowing that in the New Year I was going to deprive myself of a lot of bad stuff for a while; I over indulged. I have no problem with that. That said I did get a little shock when I weighed myself on New Years Day. […]
Hawaii Five O
Never really watched the TV series back in the 70’s. More of a Starsky and Hutch, Kojack fan. Even enjoyed the occasional Colombo. But Hawaii five O suits my needs. That’s the plan. Don’t know if it’s going to come off but I am going to try. I am not trying to go back just […]
2015 – Injuries Bike ...
The water is warm and clear. We have just swum over the seemingly endless green carpet of sea grass and are now into the shallow surf zone. As I turn to breathe out I see my competitors’ feet touch the fine pale limestone sand of Alcudia Bay and then start to run. I try to […]
If you can’t run for a whil...
At the age of forty-seven I realised I’d never Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in my hair. Nor was it something I could have contemplated at thirty seven, the age Mrs. Jordan was when it first dawned on her too and maybe it would not have been possible […]
Treadmills Anonymous
A good few years ago I was lucky enough to pick up a reasonably good “domestic” treadmill in a New Year sale. Treadmills are not cheap but you can still get a decent one for less than the price of a carbon race wheel. In fact I only had one race wheel at the time. […]
If the shoe fits – A ...
Beneath the polished flagstones of Saint Canice’s magnificent cathedral, in Kilkenny, there lie the bones of a humble shoemaker. He lies there amid the tombs and memorials of noble knights and ladies, soldiers and bishops, a humble cobbler, a cordwainer, a follower of Saint Hugh, the martyr. And why not? It is likely that during […]