I was wrong: the temperature this morning at my run was 15°. Morning Office, Mass, hot breakfast, and back to Ambrose. That sums up my day, apart from a grocery trip. Margaret cobbled together some… | Continue reading
My morning run at a fresh but not chilly temperature, probably the warmest it’ll be till spring (alas); Morning Office; Mass; fruit breakfast; I sent off an examiner’s report and some corrections f… | Continue reading
Fruit breakfast, Morning Office, packing up in Wolverhampton, train home to Oxford, resting in the afternoon, short grocery trip, read some Ambrose, cooked dinner, and watched the first two episode… | Continue reading
Morning Office, breakfast at the Premier Inn, errands run in Wolverhampton centre, afternoon with Damian and Fiona in Wombourne, back to watch some football and chat with the Feeneys (including Pat… | Continue reading
Closing in fast on a half-year of pandemic conditions here in Oxford! Woke up early, ran a fresh mile-and-a-half, Morning Office, said the Mass (got a bit distracted, so almost sleep-walked in late… | Continue reading
Woke up nice and early, ran my longer route, Morning Office, quick grocery run, hot breakfast (not usually on Thursday, but it’s my birthday), wander into town to find good bedclothes for Melanie, … | Continue reading
(I forgot to blog yesterday. As best I recall, my day involved morning run, Morning Office, Mass, hot breakfast, emotional backwash from the previous day’s interviews, reading proofs, miscellaneous… | Continue reading
Up early for my run, Morning Office, Mass, fruit breakfast, and then a marathon of [online video] interviews and assessments relative to a possible diagnosis of some of my peculiarities. Though the… | Continue reading
I slept later than was ideal, so there wasn’t good time for running before setting up before saying Mass, so I said the Morning Office, then went to Mass, fruit breakfast, and settled in to work. A… | Continue reading
Between chilly and fresh, so that with a hoodie is too warm, and without is distinctly cool, I took the longer course without timing it. I had some aches and pains at first, but these diminished as… | Continue reading
Slept well, fresh morning, and I considered not going out for my morning run, but opted in the end to go for a slow run for a mile or so rather than a vigorous run for a mile and a half. Morning Of… | Continue reading
Fresh run in the morning, Morning Office, and then I celebrated the Mass for the first time in months. Margaret and I went to Rick’s for breakfast (sitting outside, as we do), then returned to work… | Continue reading
The day was unexpectedly warm this morning, so as I took another untimed (1.4 mile) run I shed my hoodie. Morning Office, a bit of work on translating a poem from the Greek, Mass, breakfast, a rest… | Continue reading
Has anyone noticed that over a relatively short interval, the time of sunrise seems to have raced from ‘before I would wake up’ to ‘Holy smoke, is it that late already?’ I did wake up in time to no… | Continue reading
Untimed mile and a half, Morning Office, Mass, crumpet for breakfast (out of fruit), some more reading in the Talmud, off to the city centre to pick up Margaret’s repaired MacBook, home, to the gro… | Continue reading
I was late out of bed, and felt reluctant to go at all, so I planned to return to the short route this morning. I admit that I’d hoped for a noticeable difference in time since I’ve bee… | Continue reading
The air was distinctly chilly this morning; I ran with my hoody on for the first time since summer started. No timing, since I timed yesterday and I don’t want to feel pressure to stretch anything.… | Continue reading
Distinct chill in the air this morning: I ran my mile+ in 13:49, not uncomfortable but very glad to be done. Morning Office, hot breakfast, trip to the grocery. Worked on and off on Legends, got di… | Continue reading
I shook things up this morning! When I descended from bed, rain was falling steadily, so I said the Morning Office. Then I ran my mile and a half, another slow-and-steady untimed day since I didn’t… | Continue reading
A bit cool this morning, and I took an untimed slow run through my longer route. Morning Office, fruit breakfast (with a crumpet), finishing the PDF of Reddie’s article, some work on James and some… | Continue reading
Woke to good weather, ran my new route in 13:51, Morning Office, hot breakfast, followed up a fair amount of correspondence, wrote a bit more of my essay on James, read and prepared a digital versi… | Continue reading
I slept a bit late this morning but it mattered not, because it’s raining cats and dogs and I decline to run in this weather. Morning Office, fruit breakfast, some backed-up correspondence, some re… | Continue reading
Up promptly, conditions favourable, morning run came in at 13:34. I remember when that would be an adequate tie for one mile, so that’s an improvement. Morning Office, fruit breakfast, some corresp… | Continue reading
We slept deeply, and I rose well-rested and ready to resume a responsible schedule of morning running. I didn’t time this morning, but made the mile-point-four course at a steady pace with no parti… | Continue reading
We disembarked promptly in the morning, stopped at Costa for a coffee and a tea before making our way to Victoria, thence to the Oxford Tube, and homeward around noontime. All the transport for the… | Continue reading
Margaret packed our goods up first thing in the morning, and then cleaned and sorted, we made our way to Madhavi’s home, where we spent the middle of the day reading or chatting or taking Gabriel f… | Continue reading
A less ambitious day today: we strolled to Anstruther for breakfast and took in the wharves, then took the bus in to St Andrews. We had intended to explore the (ruined) cathedral again, but we were… | Continue reading
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Slept well, got a leisurely start, and headed into Anstruther to find a hearty breakfast. None of the sort we had in mind was on offer, though — mostly only coffee and pastry — so we grabbed a pass… | Continue reading
Quick word: From London to Edinburgh on the Caledonian Sleeper, breakfast at Loudon’s where I had the best French Press pot of coffee I’ve tasted in ages (and Margaret had vegan vanilla pancakes), … | Continue reading
Alea, as they say, jacta est; I rose early, put on my trainers, and ran my new mile+. It’s not my favourite* thing to do, but there we are. I paused for a moment about halfway, not a full-on stop, … | Continue reading
I realised this morning, as I was rolling out of bed and heading downstairs to don my trainers, that it really only makes sense for me to stick with the mile-and-a-half route going forward (unless … | Continue reading
Heavy grey skies, total humidity from a rain that had only just let up, but cooler temps and good, limber legs, to the result of a 9:35 time. Again, I can’t account for the variability of timings, … | Continue reading
Heavy grey skies, total humidity from a rain that had only just let up, but cooler temps and good, limber legs, to the result of a 9:35 time. Again, I can’t account for the variability of timings, … | Continue reading
The thunder and lightning, and primarily the rain yesterday afternoon, had helped drive the temperature down a wee bit, but it was still warm and sticky-humid for this morning’s run, and my ankles … | Continue reading
Up early in the tropical morning air, and decided early on to take an untimed, short-step, slow run for the day, allowing for a stop along the way to take a photo for Margaret: Morning Office, hot … | Continue reading
Did I mention that it’s perishingly humid on top of the heat wave, especially first thing in the morning? 9:27 mile. Morning Office, breakfast at Rick’s, brushing up my Newman (on the day the CoE r… | Continue reading
Deep grey skies, light breezes, and oppressive humidity this morning, and although I didn’t feel any particular aches or wobbles, my mile came in at 9:31 and I think I couldn’t have done it in a mi… | Continue reading
A gross of COVID days, not yet quite a half year, and governments (NZ and others nobly excepted) still faff about like blind squirrels looking for nuts. This morning, deep grey and near-100% humid,… | Continue reading
Happy St Dominic’s Day! A normal morning, if hot and humid, and my limber limbs carried me to a mile time of 9:35. Morning Office, pancakes for breakfast!, odds and ends and reading, a grocery trip… | Continue reading
My feet have been bearing a lot for the past four days, so I thought I’d give my heels (at least) a wee break by taking a run with shorter steps, making my ankles do more work and shifting impact f… | Continue reading
warm, humid air and wobbly knees (that resent having done so much walking in the past several days) put a damper on my pace for the morning mile; I came in at 9:45. After some consultation and deli… | Continue reading
I reverted to my usual mile this morning, to beneficial effect (on my feet and time, at least); the overcast day brought humidity almost to the point of dampness, and a headwind on the Iffley Road … | Continue reading
My time of 16:21 would be shockingly poor if not for the facts that (a) it marks my extension of my running course to a mile and a half, and (b) I wasn’t pushing for time, but just running slowly a… | Continue reading
Every fibre in my legs — bum, thighs, knees, calves, ankles — protested this morning after my slightly-longer run, itself after two days off, ao the otherwise fine conditions resulted only in a 9:5… | Continue reading
What happened to days 135 and 136? Friday, Margaret and I got up at the crack of dawn — before dawn cracked, really — and made our way to Arundel, where Margaret waited to be picked up by our frien… | Continue reading