Category: creative writing
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Don’t quit, learn how to rest
Someting I’ve always struggled with both in my professional life and my sporting life, is tactical rest, taking a round off. I’ve often cashed-in at times when it would’ve been wiser to ease-up, weigh my options and go all-in at the right moment. I’ve over-committed many times, not rationed my energy wisely and ran myself…
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A sense of adventure
On this blog I’ve often talked about the films and TV shows that had a lasting effect on me when I was young. But the one I haven’t told you about has easily had the biggest influence and that is the Lord of the Rings film adaptations directed by Peter Jackson. One of the standout…
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Connecting with the universe
When he get outdoors and we leave the comfortable confines of our home, street or town, we open ourselves up to those special moments. Moments where we witness nature in action; a rare glimpse of the wider universe like a shooting star, the microscopic world that turns beneath our feet as generations or the sun…
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In the lap of the gods
In recent years I’ve developed an interest in the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, and Greek Mythology. This has coincided with me taking on more fell runs and hiking more. There is something about being up there on a newly conquered summit, with a seemingly endless vista rolling out before you, that makes you feel like…
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Twin Peaks vibes
A piece of art can leave a lasting impression on you, if it gets you at the right age. It can create an everlasting world inside your head mind that you can return to any time you desire it’s solitude. It can even inform your attitudes and taste in other media. For me, one of…
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The runner’s high – folding space and time
To me, the much discussed ‘runner’s high’ feels like folding space and time in half as if it were a piece of paper. When you’re running hard, especially during a race, every metre feels like an eternity. But later you can barely remember running that part of the route, as if it passed in the…
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Forest havens
Just being in a forest is revitalising, the fresh, clean air cleanses your lungs, expells the fuzz of urban life from your head and helps you press the reset button. Here in Cumbria, and the United Kingdom as a whole, we are privileged to have such places….right on our doorstep. I paused there because that…
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Autumnal light rays
Following an unseasonably hot week, autumn has well and truly made its presence known. With its crisp nights, dewy mornings and dramatic light rays that try to seep into every pour of the house. Those rays seems to freeze time within their beam and you get a sense of mindfulness and the ancient, enduring stillness…
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Holidaying at home
We all want for things that we don’t have, material things, career moves….you may not be happy in your job, course or some other obligation that you have to fulfill through the week. It might be making you feel very downcast. What you must do is fill your time off to the brim with the…
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A taste of the city life
Living in the Lake District is amazing and I wouldn’t swap it for anything, but every now and then an excuse presents itself to stay in a big city for a weekend and I find it’s a welcome change of pace. We were in Sheffield this weekend for a family event and I’ve found, despite…
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