La bella, spaghetti, azzuri!!!!

I'm of to Naples in May, having just booked my tickets.... J was already going on a uni field trip and I am going out to join her for a few days before she starts. Can't honestly say it's somewhere I ever had a particular desire to visit, but now I'm going I'm very excited. We're going to climb up to the crater of Vesuvius, visit Pompeii and hang out in the city for a day as well. My impression of Naples is of a teeming city perched precariously between the bay and the mountains with loads of bustle and shady dealings in the back streets. Can't wait to find out if it's true.

Training: Day One

Today is the first day of my intensive training schedule to get back in shape for the 10K. I thought for ages about going out for a jog this evening when I got home, and it made me feel quite tired afterwards. Over the next few days, I hope to get as far as not having my afternoon cigarette, and perhaps even leaving work early with the express intention of definitely pulling on my trainers.

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Ever wondered what 6 months worth of washing machine and dish water looks like?

Notice the inch thick coating of grey sludge. Mmm. Nice.

The race route

The British 10K

I've now signed up for the Asics British 10K on 6 July - See! That Tattie Run's again!!!!

Well, obviously not right now - it's a bank holiday weekend and as usual I'm sitting in my pants smoking fags, but soon I'll start back into training. I'm wondering what two years will have done in terms of affecting my time, especially given that I'm now on the wrong side of 30 - which seems to be widely ...

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'mon the daylight....

I left work just after 5 this evening, having survived the day on a diet of caffeine and water - J went back to Poland for a visit last night, and - having escorted her to the bus in Brixton at 2.30 - I only got about 4 hours sleep. Not enough for a lazy bastard like me.

Anyway, my point being..... I go the whole way home before it got dark! Woohoo! Bring on the summer.....

My new run

awful website, terrible name but get registering and join me!

British 10K London Run 2008

oh, and err, I haven't signed up yet cos I can't til pay day, so don't all go rushing at once or else there'll be no room left for me....

I'm in shock

I've just watched an episode of the Simpsons on Channel 4 that I hadn't seen before. Wonders will never cease.

I think the Tattie gutties might be back out again

I seem to have inadvertently signed up for another 10K - about time some might say, given the fact that the run that inspired this little wedge of the web is now 18 months in the past.

J is running/walking in a charity 10K round Hyde Park in the summer as part of her company's team - a noble endeavour and one that I intended to fully support her in. However, my plans to only be a spectator were ...

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The world's 50 most powerful blogs

The Observer had a piece in their magazine yesterday on the world's 50 most powerful blogs. I was caught a little by surprise, as I had not been contacted by the editorial team prior to them compiling the article. As you know, whilst I am without doubt blazing a trail for irrelevant, dull, non-story diary blogging, I am very protective of my privacy and take great steps to ensure the secret ...

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Kwality proof reading

After trying to watch Celtic lose in Barcelona tonight on the STV website (it kept crashing), I had a quick browse at Rangers' section to see if I can watch the game on Thursday in the UEFA Cup. This story caught my eye:

"Kris Boyd says having fellow striker Daniel Cousin at Ibrox at least until the end of the season can give Rangers the impotace to compete for trophies on four fronts."

Impotace?

It's so badly spelled that it took me a while to work out what they meant - it doesn't even look like a word.

Best not to let the work experience kid write your copy, guys..... You're emplieing us Huns are all illiterate idiots.....

posting for the sake of it

I'm in a total creative vacuum at the moment. Can think of nothing exciting to say and have no enthusiasm for saying it anyway. Not helped by the fact that I noticed in the Londonpaper today that the nondescript guy who wrote a couple of columns about Soho now has his own, regular column in the paper. There but for the grace of God, eh? Only difference is, he obviously has stuff to write about, whereas I am as dry as a 90 year old granny.