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Hengistbury Head is nice. Outdoors-y but with a nice cafe and visitor centre
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lovely route…I didn’t realise how much I missed the sea
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the steep climb, at about 8 miles, up the side of Boscombe Chine was…. challenging (swears omitted here)
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just two portaloos at the three mile point is nowhere near enough
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we were lucky with the weather
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I didn’t win
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trying to spot my young, bearded, skinny chum coming the other away among lots and lots of other young, bearded, skinny people is enough to make you go cross-eyed. It’s like an endurance version of Where’s Wally
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it’s a nice medal. It looks a bit on-the-nose, but the detail is nice
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I’m very grateful to the organisers and volunteers for putting it on
Thoughts on the Bournemouth half marathon yesterday
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After years and years of having an Android phone, I’ve only just discovered the usefulness of the Gboard personal dictionary, with the suggestion bar turned on.
I’ve got ‘xxm’ set up to generate a markdown link
Gboard settings can be accessed by long pressing the comma
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I enjoyed Supacell, but it did make South east London seem a bit grim.
I was hoping a bit for superheroes in capes laying waste to Lewisham High Street.
That didn’t happen…but it’s a great show
Pam Ayers has a pile of wood and rubbish in her garden which provides a habitat for hedgehogs and insects and such
She has a genius word for it. It’s her ‘nonfire’
For me this is a music podcast of Avengers Assemble - the blokes from Sodajerker meet the blokes from Word in Your Ear
I particularly enjoyed the implication that if you don’t like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, then you can’t call yourself a Beatles fan
What the sodajerkers know about songwriting
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water….in Paris!
I enjoyed this amiably over-the-top Jaws-meets-the-Paris-Olympics film on Netflix
It’s either ‘Under Paris’ or ‘Sous La Seine’
The Wicker Man soundtrack is on Spotify now
I think it’s got some extra bits compared to my CD, too
I very much enjoyed The Hour on Netflix
Wikipedia quotes Nancy Franklin in the New Yorker
“almost absurdly gratifying. With its casting, its look, its unfolding mysteries, its attention to important historical events, its sexiness, The Hour hits every pleasure center.”
I was very slightly disappointed that Soho was a bit generic rather than specifically recognizable…but that’s just me
Marking the changing of the seasons, and the turning of the great wheel of the year with this semi -annual-ish post / tweet / toot
The word ‘equinox’ reminds me of this
Bob Marley - Exodus
I’ve been watching The Hour on Netflix.
It’s set in an office in the 1960s.
I’m particularly enjoying the fact that they refer to each other as Mr Wengrove, Miss Rowley, Mr Cilenti etc, just dropping into first names for friends, or in moments of stress
It seems quite complicated
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway 🎵
I’ve started watching the 2009 Day of the Triffids
I don’t know what I was expecting, exactly….but I’m finding it a bit grim
I enjoyed the 1970s Death Race 2000
It’s Wacky Races meets Russ Meyer, with shades of the Running Man and the Hunger Games 📽️
I enjoyed Trap….but there’s very little you can say about the film without giving away some of the story 📽️
These are fun
photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of astonishing images called Layers of the Games, which aim to show in one image the multiple moments that happen in a game or a day of competition in Paris
Good quote: “Churchill was a racist and an imperialist, and also the most important anti-fascist who ever lived”
Origin Story - Churchill, part 1 - Rebel Without a Cause open.spotify.com/episode/4…
Words I like - Missing You
Who did you murder, are you a spy? I’m just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry So I just drink red biddy for a permanent high I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die
Christy Moore - Missing You
Finished reading: Fake Heroes by Otto English 📚
Great book.
Some of the targets are maybe a bit soft. For example, it’s no great shock to learn that John Wayne was a bit right wing, and not as rough-ty tough-ty in real life as he was on film.
Much of the book is debunking the film or Ladybird version of the heroes' lives. Those who prefer the Ladybird versions perhaps wont much like it.
Giving good epithet
This is good, particularly the bit ive put in bold.
It’s from Otto English’s “Fake Heroes - Ten False Icons and How They Altered the Course of History”
My serving suggestion would be to substitute in the name of someone more fashionable than Mother Teresa
Teresa gave good epithet and many of her quotations about love , empathy and humility dot Pinterest , Facebook and the pages of glossy magazines to this day .
Her most famous quotations include
" A life not lived for others is not a life " ,
" I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world" and "
I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering ” .
Something peculiar happens to words when they are attached to the names of celebrated prophets. On their own and of themselves, many, like those above, might seem a little banal – trite even. But put a famous name like Mother Teresa’s beneath them and they are transformed into something of value
Currently reading: Fake Heroes by Otto English 📚