Professor

So yeah, I found this card at Elephant and Castle tube on Sunday.

What a super talented guy.
However, I found the reverse to be much more interesting

Ommm nom. Snow!

Yeah, so. It snowed last Saturday night in London so I got up early on Sunday morning before all the humans got up, and took some pictures.

I sit and wheeze on these benches sometimes after I've finished a run.

A tree!

I fancy some Turkish Delight.

This public drinking fountain has come in handy for me after runs in the summer heat.

A pagoda in the middle of Ruskin Park.

I understand the pull of the outdoors. I understand the urge to go running, especially battling the elements - I do. I really do. Dangerous though when you can't see the floor...

Fun in toilets

So yes. I find myself in Greenwich, not a stone’s throw from the the O2 Arena (The Dome). I mean that literally. I’m sat in a Costa coffee shop that is about 20 metres from it. Yes I can throw a stone 20 metres!
I had to use the toilet earlier so popped into Sainbury’s.
I really like the painted stone backdrop they have in the cubicles.

Well done that supermarket chain.

I noticed some mirrors on opposite walls and couldn’t resist taking a picture of multi-V.

Toilets can be such fun!

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

Well, after being out of action since January this year with an assortment of issues and injuries centered around my calf I had my first real test today on my way back. This is very pleasing.

Following an ankle sprain and concomitant problems, ending in an infruriatingly slow healing achilles-tendinopathy, my wonderful physio Helen, suggested that I go for a ‘slow ten minute run’ last week to see how my calf holds up. I then did a 15 minute run a few days after and today I joined a squash group and played three hard games. My achilles held up very well and I came through it with no pain or niggles.

I could only manage three games as I’ve only done the two aforementioned runs in five months. Now it may be a little silly that I’ve dived straight in to play a game that puts enormous pressure on the achilles but Helen suggested that I should only do what I’m comfortable with and I was sure I could handle it.

I seem to be more vulnerable to the repititous action of running mile after mile rather than explosive exertion.

I know I’m going to wake up tomorrow with my thighs and right arm/shoulder (my racket arm) in pain but it’s a good pain

I haven’t been on my usual high-carb diet since January and I really should have waited another week before taking part in such punishing exercise but I’ve always been impatient when it comes to exercise.

I’m a happy V.

50 Pence…

to spend a penny.

Yes well, when I first moved to London a little over three years’ ago the lavatories in Paternoster Square at St Pauls were 20 pence to use.
Then, lordy lorks, they went up to 30 pence.
Today on a lunchtime sojourn around St Pauls, I noticed that they’d gone up to an amazing 50 pence.
Man Alive!

Where there’s muck there’s brass

A lovely solitary rose amongst some bins.

Mish-mash

Some random pictures from the last week or so.

These are the ugliest lampposts I’ve ever seen

I decided to put giraffe outside, in his natural habitat.

Paperclip on a park bench in the early morning sun.

Om

Nom nom…

Stop and smell the roses

I did just that.

On a morning as beautiful as this, stepping off the beaten track to take in the scent of roses can be enormously rewarding.

Heavens above

Well I came across this slightly off-putting but deeply amusing spangly Mary and Jesus whilst browsing around a charity shop.

I almost burst out laughing. Instead I stared for several seconds in total amazement before grabbing my camera and snapping the happy couple.

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

JEBUS!