#Wildgarlic #ramsons #alliumursinum or onion flowers as we called them as kids. #CalverleyWoods is full of them. It all smells very oniony.... in a good way.. #WoodlandTrust #Leeds

Not. Giving. Up I’ve never been a trophy-winning runner, heck, I’ve never been a winner. Though there was that one time when I came last in a fell race and came out with a prize because I was the first…

Blogging about finding my running mojo
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Hello #herbrobert #geraniumrobertianum how nice to see you on the last day of March, showing off to all the passing cars on the busy Gelderd Road #Leeds

I love libraries, I really do! Chamonix Library I attribute my life-long love affair with reading to the local librarians who hosted twice-weekly story time sessions in the upstairs room of Mirfield Library. I remember sitting o…

Blogging about libraries
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Absolutely delightful and enchanting 10m-long installation at #WakefieldExchange . #TheCatWhoSleptForA1000Years purrs, twitches and moves its tail, it also likes being stroked!

It's #WorldDownSyndromeDay and who better to send us on our way than the wonderful George Webster? #loveparkrun

It’s my 15th birthday – and I’m a double-tonner! Bois de Boulogne parkrun which is no more… It was a cool March morning, I was dressed to run, but wasn’t sure where I was going. My mate at the climbing wall told me about this Saturday…

My 15th parkrun birthday!
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Finding flowers on a cold January day for the #BSBI #NewYearPlantHunt. The thick frost and nithering temperatures made for few flowers. But there's always something in the ginnels and snickets of #Calverley #Leeds.
#pulmonaria, #calendula, #vincamajor and #cardamine

Running photography I’ll admit it, I’m a bit grumpy at the moment. Not down and out miserable, just grumpy that I’m on the running sidelines and I’m missing it like mad. I’d like to say I…

Blogging about running photography...
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Well, hello #WelshPoppy #papavercambricum . What are YOU doing, growing on my garden path up here in foggy #Leeds on the shortest day of the year? Just chillin', she replied, just chillin' .

Playing with a penguin puppet at #parkrun 888 her at #WoodhouseMoor . He was one of 719 finishers from near and far. #loveparkrun

A festive welcome down at #Pudsey tip. 'We wanted to show willing,' said one of the hi-viz guys. Well, you did! Thank you @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social

Our local bobbies volunteer and run at our #parkrun. #WoodhouseMoor #Leeds #communitypolice #loveparkrun

Only a parkrun to go…. In the old days, that’s BP (Before parkrun) my internal commentary would point out that, as I puffed, panted, coughed and spluttered my way towards the end of my run, there was only that bit …

#Parkrun. The universal language of distance...
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Supporting at the #AbbeyDash #Leeds today, just short of the 6k mark. #oveparkrun #HydeParkHarriers #RunForAll

The light switches are redundant We don’t need a working light switch in the house, because, as if by magic, the lights come on when you need them. Not only that, but the lounge blind makes a stately descent each evening as …

Blogging about our smart(ish) home. Someone is very clever (not me!)
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#Borage #boragoofficinalis and #herbrobert #geraniumrobertianum growing happily beside the bins in #Calverley #Leeds #urbanbotany

We love our #parkrun at #WoodhouseMoor, especially when it's wearing its #autumn coat. Thank you, #LeedsParks #loveparkrun

#OtleyChevin showing off its #autumn colours. #Leeds #Yorkshire

#Autumn in #CalverleyWoods #Leeds . Lots of #beech #lime and #oak with the odd #sweetchestnut

Bradford’s the winner Where better to host the UK’s famous Turner Prize, a celebration of contemporary art, than the birthplace of (in my humble opinion) the world’s greatest living artist? David Hockney was…

Blogging about the #TurnerPrize coming to #Bradford. It's rather ace. #CityofCulture
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A lovely run around #LightNight #Leeds. What a fantastic event, thank you #LeedsCityCouncil

#CalverleyWoods #Leeds. My run route this morning.

Therapy for feeling like sh1t…… Noel and I are shouting at each other. Proper shouting. Thank goodness we have super-thick Yorkshire store walls and double glazing so the neighbours and passers-by can’t hear the commotion. …

Blogging about dealing with my Mother of All Colds...
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It's very spidery in the garden today. Very spidery. #Leeds #Yorkshire #autumn

A happy (but soggy) parkrun birthday Singing Happy Birthday Woodhouse Moor parkrun! Photo: Lizzie Coombes Twelve hours to go and the wind’s whipping around the houses, ripping the leaves off the trees and sending the wheelie bin…

My blog about our birthday parkrun
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Singing #happybirthday to #WoodhouseMoor #parkrun #Leeds. We're 18 today, and we didn't let #StormAmy stop us....though it was a bit wet and breezy! #loveparkrun

DO NOT DISTURB! I'm reading #RichardOsmans new #ThursdayMurderClub book, hot off the press. And of course I bought it from my local independent bookshop #TrumanBooks #Farsley

The best art in Leeds? We have a lot of art in Leeds, we’re a very arty city. Blimey, we even have an Arts University. We have galleries in the city, galleries in the suburbs, sculptures in pavements and in car par…

Blogging about the BEST art in Leeds - IMHO
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What’s in a number? Celebrating 450 with George (161!) There’s an entire Facebook group devoted to parkrun statistics. I accidentally joined it once, I don’t know what came over me, maybe it was curiosity …

Blogging about my 450th #parkrun
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