I would walk 500 miles….

Posted on December 20, 2007 by JH

… and I would walk 500 more. Actually, as of this morning, I’ve run slightly over 2000 miles in the last year. See my 2007 training log.

So does that make me the man who walks 2000 miles to fall down at your door?

Very possibly. Falling down at a door sounds quite attractive at the moment.

Running
Yes: as I hinted above, I went out for a sticky, sweaty, humid lap of the tan this morning. What with one thing and another, it ended up being 9k all up.

Storm
No sooner had I made it back to work from that run, than a great big storm - it must have been practically snapping at my heels - took a bit of a crack at my office building. The lightning stupidly missed my boss, but did manage to hit whatever drives the ‘lectricity for the place, so the combined workforce was left twiddling various thumbs and making stilted conversation.

Apparently the same storm beat up on a couple of defenceless trams shortly afterwards. Temper, temper!

Marriage
Robert Wiblin of Malvern SA has achieved the hitherto thought impossible feat of smuggling some good sense into the letters page of the Australian newspaper. I’m so astonished by this, that I thought I should reprint his letter in full:

Both opposition to and support for civil unions makes me wonder why we need our government to judge and regulate private relationships at all.

There is no compelling reason to have any laws regarding marriage nor even keep public records of marital status. Insofar as marriage is formed for financial purposes it should be a private legal contract. Insofar as it is a symbolic action, it is best left as a private covenant, overseen by a church or other institution at a couple’s discretion.

By fiddling with our tax and welfare payments depending on our relationship status, the government is engaging in unnecessary social engineering. In a liberal society, we must all be free to form, recognise and ignore human relationships as we see fit. The government should have no more role administering marriage than administering friendships.
The Australia, 20 December 2007

What do you think?

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4 Responses to “I would walk 500 miles….”

  1. Steve's Stuff, on December 20th, 2007 at 4:53 am Said:

    2000 miles, that’s some mileage and if converted to km would appear to be heaps more.

    I got a run in between storms this afternoon and now it’s bucketing down, a good excuse not to do any gardening.

  2. jojo, on December 20th, 2007 at 9:02 am Said:

    that storm certainly caught me unawares today

  3. Em, on December 20th, 2007 at 10:40 pm Said:

    Wow, go Robert, could not have said it better myself. While having no desire to get married myself I could care less what anyone else wants to do. Old Howard’s “its a union between a man and a woman” garbage used to fill me enough ire for at least one good “it makes me mad” diatribe.

  4. Andrew(ajh), on December 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am Said:

    I agree with Robert, and also love the Proclaimers song!

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