people are rude

How’s this for rude?
I was at the pool this morning, taking my 18 month old for a dip, and as we sauntered down the stairs, a man passed us and said to my boy:
“Be careful, he’s going to drown you like a kitten”
What a charming thing to say! Bastard, I’ll drown him like a kitten, [...]

why is my shoe endangered?

I panicked a bit yesterday afternoon, when I saw this on the interweb:
Buy Men’s Brooks Adrenaline GTS 7 at Road Runner Sports
Note the fine print:
Why is my shoe Endangered?The shoe manufacturer has discontinued your shoe, so there is a limited supply left. Stock up now at this great low price before they’re gone forever.
Eh, what? [...]

danni minogue

I had intended to launch today’s salvo by saying making humorous remarks at Danni Minogue’s expense was like shooting fish in a barrel.
On reflection, I’m not so sure about that. Shooting fish, I would imagine, would be quite difficult. They flap about a bit, you know, in preparation for kicking the bucket. (There are those [...]

new shoes

Don’t get excited. I don’t actually have new shoes, but I am in the market for some.
It occurred to me yesterday that my old shoes have about 1300k on them. That’s probably about 500k too much. What’s 500k between friends you ask? Not much, I agree, but they’re Brooks Adrenalines which don’t have the best [...]

new wheels

The new wheels arrived last night, wrapped in about 25 square metres of plastic of various sorts and three rolls of packing tape. Still, I’m grateful for those extra few seconds of delicious anticipation while I tried to tear it open with my hands, my fingernails, teeth, a pair of scissors and a small thermo-nuclear [...]

vale charlton

A quick post today, as I have to rush off to three days of what I anticipate to be oh-so-exciting training….
Running - last week was much improved. Solid efforts in the early morning have left me feeling more purposeful, and the LSD run on saturday morning hit the spot. Overall there was 64km last [...]