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The Worst Week of the Year (For the Self Employed)
This year, I conquered one of my biggest challenges ever. Oh here he goes….rattling on about the bloody Spine race again! Ha! Well, no actually. It’s not. It’s the end of a very tough week for a certain group of people. Namely – The Self-employed. Why? Because it’s Self-Assessment time. Tax return week! Some people […] More
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in Exercise, Nature, Running, Short Stories
The Spine Challenger North 2026 – Part One : Just Get to Alston!!
Saturday night and my race drop bag and zip locked bags of varying sizes covering every single eventuality and stage of the race are scattered across the spare room. Some things, you simply MUST be prepared for and you can’t just wing it or hope for the best. I spend three hours of mass panic […] More
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in Cycling, Exercise, Nature, Running, Short Stories
2025 – Part 2. I found “The Way”
My last blog described how I’d struggled through last year and from the end of 2024 in all honesty. (Read Here) I started 2025 ‘blocked’ and wondering what the hell was wrong with me. A last minute plan for Hogmanay 2024 saw me fleeing up the M74 to spend New Years Eve in Lower Largo […] More
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2025 – Part 1 : I Lost my way!
A lot of time has passed since I last did a blog post. TOO much time. I keep getting asked and encouraged to get back to it. There’s no real singular reason for my absence. My reasons/excuses and justifications are plentiful. But, the longer you leave something the worse it gets, the harder it is […] More
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in RoutinesLent – The Annual Reset & Clear Out
Today is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. Many families all over the world will be making successful (and calamitous) attempts to toss pancakes in the air, hoping for a perfect landing in the frying pan. Out will come the nutella, sugar, honey, syrup and everything else. But what’s it all about? Media and commercialism has […] More
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When You Just Really CAN’T be Bothered
Last week I posted on my Facebook page for Micky Pizza with my intentions on three locations for this coming week. Dufton – Monday. My own village of Kirkby Thore on Wednesday and lastly, what always seems to me as being a slightly scary and bold effort, Ambleside on Saturday. This year has started a […] More
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Exercise – CBA or JDI?
Hello again. I hope everyone reading this, had a great time with their loved ones, or found their peace in solitude or enjoyed helping others if they had to work that day! Christmastime this year has been a bit of a funny one for me. This year I decided to NOT run away and actually […] More
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in Coaching, Journalling, Mentoring
2025…How Would You LIKE it to Go? If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes!
Something I have been putting off for a while now, is digging up the horrible truths of how my December of 2022 went…. It wasn’t great. I was very VERY low. No motivation, no ambition, lonely, unproductive and I was constantly late. Late for work, pizza commitments, friends, bedtimes. The works. December isn’t usually a […] More
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in Exercise, Nature, Routines, Uncategorized
White Space is Write Space
For the past two years I’ve been using a habit tracker. It consists of 20 individual items rated at half a point each to achieve a utopian maximum score of 10. To start with, I was very very strict with it and really paid close attention to getting as high a score as possible. Why? […] More
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A Lesson from Ronaldo : Do the Opposite or at Least do Something!
A couple of lessons learnt from this weekend. One – a repeated lesson that I know well to be true, but I’d like to share them with you all again today. After my unscheduled trip to America for my daughters wedding in Washington State, I got back late on Thursday night after over a full […] More
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in Exercise, Nature, Short Stories
19 Hours of Solitude and I Saw the Light!
What do you do when you decide you just want to switch off, cop out, drop off (from society) and just get away from having to ‘do things’ and all the rest. Plus just have some time to yourself? Well for most normal people that probably constitutes any number of things. Maybe going for a […] More
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These 12 Things Have Made a Huge Difference in My Last 2-5 Years
The last 3 years since 2022 have been a complete and utter blast. I really couldn’t have hoped for better. But its a far cry to how the Micky of 2014-2019 was. Only a small number of people know the full story of what I endured. The end of 2013 saw a marriage break up […] More