tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60907139229769439682024-03-13T05:34:25.133+00:00The Blog After 909Former Home Of <b><a href="http://beatlessongwriting.blogspot.com/">Beatles Songwriting Academy</a></b> Now Random Notes From Matt BlickMatt Blickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07532287235128200046noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090713922976943968.post-85198347945476039022022-01-01T00:39:00.007+00:002022-01-01T00:39:40.897+00:00Best of 2021
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>FICTION BOOK </u></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><b>Piranesi – Susanna
Clarke
</b><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Wolf of the Plains -
Conn Iggulden
</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Bones of the Hill -
Conn Iggulden
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Sisters Brothers -
Patrick deWitt (far superior to the film)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The World of Jeeves -
P.G. Wodehouse</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Honourable mention:
</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Arrival – Ted Chiang</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Lord of the Bow - Conn
Iggulden
</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i>
</p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>POETRY</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Taking Off Emily
Dickinson's Clothes – Billy Collins</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>NON FICTION (MUSIC)</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Never Met A Story I
Didn't Like – Todd Snider</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Beatles and the
Historians – Erin Torkelson Weber
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">A Dream About Lightning
Bugs – Ben Folds</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfaithful Music and
Disappearing Ink – Elvis Costello</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Honourable mention:
</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>The Record Men: The
Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock Roll – Rich Cohen</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>NON FICTION (OTHER)</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p><b>Born a Crime – Trevor
Noah
</b><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Fathers, Sons, Blood -
Harry Crews (essay in Classic Crews: A Reader)</b></p><b>
</b><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>FILM
</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Doctor Sleep
(Director's Cut)</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Free Guy (Disney +)
</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Dune (pt.1)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The French Dispatch</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spiderman: No Way Home</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Honourable mention:
</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Ghostbusters: Afterlife</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>King Richard</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i>
</p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>BEST BAD FILM</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Airport '79: The
Concorde </b>(Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DT8BST4FY)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>TV</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Ted Lasso (season 1)
(Apple TV)</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Honourable mentions:
</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Ted Lasso (season 2)
(Apple TV)
</i></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Call My Agent (seasons
1-3) (Netflix)</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>We Are Lady Parts (E4)</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i>
</p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>COMEDY SPECIAL</u></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Cold Lasagne Hate
Myself 1999 – James Acaster (Vimeo)
</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Rory Scovel: Live
Without Fear (Youtube)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p><i>Honourable mentions:
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>All James Acaster's
specials (Netflix)</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Trevor Noah: Son of
Patricia (Netflix)</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i>
</p><i></i>DOCUMENTARY
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Dawn Wall (Netflix)
</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Black Godfather
(Netflix)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Todd Snider: The
Storyteller (Youtube)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Get Back (especially
ep. 1) (Disney +)</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Honourable mention:
</i></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>The Movies That Made Us
(Netflix)</i></p><i>
</i><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p><u>ALBUM
</u><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>War and Peace – Edwin
Starr
</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Spike – Elvis
Costello</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="productTitle"></a><a name="title"></a>
The Complete Duets – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Billion Dollar Babies –
Alice Cooper</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>SIX THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD
WATCH/READ/LISTEN TO</b> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Piranesi – Susanna
Clarke – utterly beguiling. Like nothing you've ever read before.
</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Airport '79: The
Concorde (Youtube) – absolutely hilarious, defying all laws of
physics, aerodynamics and character development.
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cold Lasagne Hate
Myself 1999 – James Acaster (Vimeo) – hilarious and structurally
ingenious.
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Ted Lasso (season 1)
(Apple TV) – heart warming, funny, great characters. I would say
“if you don't love it you're dead inside”, but this show will
resurrect you anyway.
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Dawn Wall (Netflix)
– An incredible life affirming story, of friendship amputation,
terrorism, murder and rock climbing.
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Get Back (ep. 1)
(Disney +) - like watching Picasso at work (on his worst canvas). A
privilege. And funny too.</p>
Matt Blickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07532287235128200046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090713922976943968.post-10099466034183910412021-10-26T17:45:00.006+01:002022-01-30T01:58:17.971+00:00Every Single Street - Nottingham #12<div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj95QT09534P_SkJIcYlnOc-Haht_dF5LWPSkDc7W9LRXdo-W0ikk37AcqnDno03QEdW7PsPE8aVfE9OXdiEd7b5GS0vKUQxUMToj5XBqiH8nk2wifSlVWnkNE0UeSh-VWogLBag16F-omiW-ciFv9NTG4Qt9TcVnPb67psNjf6D_s4igUsI-gMQfnV=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj95QT09534P_SkJIcYlnOc-Haht_dF5LWPSkDc7W9LRXdo-W0ikk37AcqnDno03QEdW7PsPE8aVfE9OXdiEd7b5GS0vKUQxUMToj5XBqiH8nk2wifSlVWnkNE0UeSh-VWogLBag16F-omiW-ciFv9NTG4Qt9TcVnPb67psNjf6D_s4igUsI-gMQfnV=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><p></p><p>Nottingham Uni (above) Nottingham Canal below</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHuAKTflTCfqEDZ8l-Q9DlXnCp2-6tanEOZp7HoVyuRUDmKy2j2lUJSPVDqLFTmKt6K4lKQtRVTXqaL50Xaa3QIbM8_iVpFELlhvPxq95gCEF1C61cTOtIIQBcq9XaySOWkop_CkGi2WKIVhm4TR9E8lJvYoSF3BnnzQTxSvYVBPQ2-ZttHd06Jr4y=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast)
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <u>Favourite
books I read in 2020</u></p>
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<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The
Colour Purple (Alice Walker)</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>In
Search of Al Howie</b></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>
(Jared Beasley) </b></span>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Educated</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;">
(Tara Westover) </span></b>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Bad
Blood</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;">: Secrets and Lies
in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou) </span></b>
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<p class="western" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>An
American Marriage (Tayari Jones)</b></p>
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</p>(Honourable mention -
Riding So High (Joe Goodden). I also reread the
Dragon Tattoo trilogy and No Country for Old Men (twice! - hey
remember lockdown?).
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Four of my top five
were recommended by my daughter
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Films I watched in 2020
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Gentlemen</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>State of Play</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Easy A</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">(watched them all
twice!). Honourable mentions:
Two Popes (netflix), Good Boys, Parasite, How to Build a Girl
(prime), Mulan (disney+). Also watched The Big
Lebowski (four times!) and The Nice Guys and Hot Fuzz (three times)
never get old, man.
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</p><p><u>Favourite TV
I watched in 2020</u></p><p> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Broadchurch (all
three seasons)</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Tick (prime)
(season 2 is best) </b>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Douglas - Hannah
Gadsby (netflix)</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Scott Bennett Live
in Nottingham (youtube)</b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Honourable mention: The
Umbrella Academy season 2 (netflix) and True Detective season 1 (for
the fourth times!)</p>
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If you want to know if Lockdown is still happening as of June 2020 - this is the centre of Nottingham at midday on Sunday.</div>
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But the cool thing is it makes you explore your city - I've lived here for 21 years and barely scratched the surface. Quite by chance I discovered a secret tunnel IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY which accessed underneath a high rise building on one end and the cul-de-sac on The Park estate on the other. There's a long staircase in what looks like a fenced off churchyard in the middle. </div>
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<li>Is he a goodie?</li>
<li>Is his brother a goodie?</li>
<li>Do they fight?</li>
<li>Why does he have a police car?</li>
<li>Is he taking him to his house?</li>
<li>What does “traded it” mean?</li>
<li>Why is it going down?</li>
<li>What's that wheel doing?</li>
<li>Is that the house?</li>
<li>Is it the house?</li>
<li>Who's that?</li>
<li>What does “redeem yourself” mean?</li>
<li>Why did she go backwards?</li>
<li>Who is that?</li>
<li>Where are they going?</li>
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Too hard? Later he commented, “Dad, that's not like our church. We don't do backflips in our church”.Matt Blickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07532287235128200046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090713922976943968.post-21648170746567735372019-11-17T23:44:00.000+00:002019-11-29T23:45:14.375+00:00Matthew Walker Pudding Run 10k - 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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Just missed a sub 50m squelching round in the pouring rain. Got a nice T-shirt, a giant pudding and a tree - plus water, mulled wine and a mince pie at the finish.</div>
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2014 in fact when I did my first Park Run. Completed a handful, tore my calf muscle, got gastroenteritis and the rest is physiology. In 2017 I started my "Marathon or bust/slow carb" adventure and FINALLY I have 100 parkruns under my belt (where all that stomach used to be). </div>
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The plan was to power hike up and down Snowdon using the poles and then 'race' after that. I didn't want to burn myself out so early in the race and I knew from watching videos that a descent down Watkin path wasn't runable at all. Just get up and down in one piece with some quads left. </div>
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I've come to the sad realisation that if I'm going to beat cut offs I don't have time to take a single selfie (which doubles as a <i>'hey family, I'm still alive and on course'</i> message) or stop to enjoy the view or smell the roses (<i>there are no roses on Snowdon</i>). Which is a real shame cos on a clear day like today you can see the sea.</div>
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Descending Watkin was OK because I was extremely cautious, until I started getting overtaken by the elites who'd started <i>running</i> the LONG <i>at the proper time</i> and were overtaking me like gazelles with death wishes. You can't help speeding up and it's a recipe for disaster. Forcing myself to slow down and run my own race meant I still fell flat on my back onto razor sharp slate but at least I did it at a leisurely pace. </div>
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Finally made it off the mountain onto a gloriously flat tarmac road ... and twisted my ankle. Almost in shock at my own stupid clumsiness I started running the last few yards to the aid station. They informed me I was officially on the LONG route now as I'd missed the first cutoff (no problem) but in my mind I was doing everything to get out of the aid station before they noticed me limping and pulled me completely. </div>
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Running up to this point had been bearable but a few minutes of standing still had made it painfully seize up. I entertained thoughts of dropping, or being forced to drop but after a few minutes of jogging along the road I settled on a policy of 'relentless forward motion' to see what that would bring.<br />
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<li>don't stop for anything unless I have to</li>
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Problem #2 - Water. Trying to beat the cutoffs at the second aid station meant I skimped on water and ran out before the third. <b>Thank God for trail angels! </b>A family that lived in the middle of nowhere were outside their house with buckets of fresh water and a hosepipe waiting for idiots like me to come along. </div>
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Problem #3 was the 'other' two 'hills'. On paper they were dwarfed by Snowdon. Sadly I wasn't running on paper. They were terrible. This kind of terrible - </div>
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Problem #4 - Water (revisited). While I was having problems putting enough water <i>into me,</i> I was having no problem putting<i> me into water</i>. Fording rivers - ugh! Boggy marshland meant I was constantly getting up to my ankles and once <i>up to</i> <i>my knee</i> in peat. Wet feet and dragging half of the Welsh countryside along for the ride with me. A winning combo.</div>
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I covered <b>26 miles in 9:40</b>, sprained my ankle, scraped my elbow, fell down five times, I also tripped over my own poles once, took a mouthful of dirt and waded through bogs. On the plus side I got a nice medal, a very nice T-shirt and spent some quality time with my son. </div>
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<i>UPDATE - Typing this up a few months later, the disappointment at being so slow has faded. I think I did all right - 26 miles anywhere is still a big achievement, let alone on Snowdon, and I shouldn't discount the mental resilience needed to finish with a sprained ankle.</i></div>
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I like the Maverick races, but the cutoffs are extremely challenging. <i>UPDATE The 2020 races that have been announced have more generous cutoffs and (to my mind) easier routes. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[Good photos by Phil Hill and Jake Baggaley. Other photos by me.]</span></div>
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Staying in Snowdonia. Finished <b>Jonathan Strange Vol. 1</b> leaving me with nothing to read for 2 days. Decided to just read it again. Got me thinking, constant overload of new content robs you of savouring what is truly great/enjoyable. Also thought about revisiting old biographies and DVDs.</div>
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KonMari-ing* my CDs. Some thoughts.</div>
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It's OK to love one thing by an artist and not all. I don't need to keep every Tom Waits, Arctic Monkeys, Joe Satriani CD. I often 'binge' on an artist I 'discover' but not all albums are created equal.</div>
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It's OK to move on. I used to love Out Of The Grey (and Motley Crue and Ratt for that matter!). I'm no longer that person. There's no shame in that.</div>
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If I've had an album for a while and don't love it or even know it very well, it's probably cos it never resonated with me. Keeping it and going over it again and again probably isn't going to change that. So...</div>
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Stop TRYING to like stuff. Enjoy what you enjoy. Everything else you fish out of the river – throw it back. The universe will send it back to you one day if you need it*.</div>
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*I'm saying this as a 50 year old man. If you're 0-30 years of age you need to keep experiencing new things and training your palate. </div>
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I feel like have to cut off the 'new supply' – music, films, books, podcasts – to enjoy more of the classics but I'm worried that the impulse is coming from a hoarder-like instinct – to sort everything. Do I really need to go back through those albums that I didn't love to see if I love them now? Second guessing my past?</div>
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There are things I love NOW. Keep! Enjoy! Feast without apology or guilt. Use with thankfulness.</div>
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Spent ages choosing my next book to read, finally decided on (rereading) <b>Gilead </b>by Mailynne Robinson but finding it hard to be stick with my choice. Shouldn't I watch <b>Cabin In The Woods</b>? NO, rewatch <b>The Big Sleep</b>. Or listen, really listen to <b>Saltbreakers</b>. Maybe sort CDs or listen to <b>Nighthawks At The Diner</b>. </div>
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I don't have time to even listen/read/watch the stuff I already have and love and want to keep. Oh the riches! To have SO MUCH to enjoy - even now, that I do not have enough hours in the day to luxuriate in it all. Ah, but the the art of picking ONE thing to enjoy rather than be paralysed by the multitude.</div>
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Maybe 2019 should be about NO new input. Just for the hell of it.</div>
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No new podcasts? No new books? No new music? No new films? Wow!</div>
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Also, will I get bored, especially by running out of fiction? If I do – read something else, watch something else, listen to music.</div>
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Noticed I'm scouring the charity shops again for books. The old scarcity panic/programming kicking in as I approach my 'year long fast'. Oh no! I will RUN OUT OF THINGS TO READ!!! Then what? SO WHAT!? That's kind of the point. What will I find out about myself and beloved books if I do? Feel on the verge of a discovery.</div>
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No new books, films, TV shows or podcasts in 2019. Only reread, watch, listen to what I already have.</div>
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Deleting my 'watchlist' and 'book wishlists' on Amazon and Netflix. Wandering around town feeling the urge to browse shops and realising 'what's the point? I can't buy anything.' Hopefully that hurts in a good way and: </div>
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Listening to bits of <b>Fred Astaire </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span><b> Le Mystere Vol 3 and 4 </b>felt transcendent. </div>
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I need to allow myself to get bored and let the boredom reveal what's underneath. What my issues or problems are that I'm medicating myself with endless 'content'.</div>
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NB. This is not a fast. It's a FEAST. </div>
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Fear of missing out (FOMO) – there might be something great out there I'm haven't heard, watched or read. Keeps me reading reviews, trawling charity shops and surfing Amazon, Netflix and Prime. </div>
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Fear of scarcity (FOS) – I might run out of new things to watch or read and then I'll be BORED! A relative of the cliché lady looking into her overflowing wardrobe sighing “I haven't got a THING to wear!”</div>
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Fear of waste (FOW) now I've got it, it would be a shame to throw it away, even if it's useless. Happens when I have something I don't like but feel I must find someone who will love it before I let it go.</div>
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Bought The T-Shirt syndrome (BTTSS) – expressing my love for a thing by buying everything else associated with the thing, rather than enjoying the thing itself.</div>
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Being a completist. KM-ing my books make me realise that though I love <b>Cormac McCarthy</b>, I don't love <b>The Stonemason</b>, never have and will never read it again. So why did I keep it? Because I have all his books. But that's crazy. Not as crazy as having kept the third <b>Matrix</b> DVD (which I loathe) for the same reason – I'm a completist.</div>
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Feel more relaxed on my commute - think it's due to not wading through a massive list of podcasts. Spent the entire journey reading <b>Anna Karenina</b>. Finished Vol. 1 but decided to quit there. Never got into it, no gripping characters, no action. <b>War and Peace</b> had action to balance the romance, plus spiritual crises, philosophy and bits of sparkling prose. AK just has farming.</div>
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I would have quit earlier but for FOS – it's one of my few new books left and I have to make them last the year! And I cut the hefty paperback up and rebound it as two volumes so I felt obliged to keep it (FOW). Result – I was <i>trying</i> to enjoy it.</div>
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Dropped clothes off at charity shop and saw <b>Free Fire</b> DVD for £1. Very tempted, but managed to let it go. I'm 'allowed' to buy it – I've already seen it so it doesn't 'count'. But it's still streaming. I don't 'need' it. It may be years till I want to watch it again. So why buy a copy? FOS. What if I want to watch it when it's no longer streaming? Get thee behind me FOS!</div>
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Last night I was really listening to/savouring <b>Laura Veirs: Saltbreakers</b> and today I'm really enjoying <b>Just Kids (Patti Smith)</b>. She writes in a way that you feel the love/joy that she feels in art books. Like McCarthy does with horses in All The Pretty Horses.</div>
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New stuff (<b>Quincy Jones autobiography, Just Kids</b>) seems more special – not a just chore or backlog to be worked through. </div>
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My paralysis of choice/overwhelm had previously gotten so bad I'd downloaded a random letter/number generator apps to help me pick what to read/watch next. Now books/music are becoming special again.</div>
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Obviously I'm not wasting as much time trawling the 'net or charity shops hunting for the next thing to buy/watch – though I am still succumbing occasionally. </div>
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Read a post by Garry Robbins – he's quit soc med for 3 months and experienced 'boredom' as a good thing! I've felt some of that mental freedom – the gaps in between the next book or the next album or film rather than the gap being stressful cos it's full of 'the paralysis of choice' picking the next thing. A breathing space. </div>
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Rewatched an episode of Firefly during lunch today. Initially consigned it to the 'ageing badly' pile, but enjoying it by the end. Shiny. </div>
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Experiencing the longer term hunger for something I really want to watch is sifting the wheat from the chaff. Instant gratification means I end up consuming things on a whim – snacking as opposed to planning a meal, preparing it and then enjoying it.</div>
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James Baldwin. Currently wanting to read something of his or watch the I Am Not Your Negro documentary. So I'm sitting with it. Will the urge go away or increase? The desire to read the second Marie Kondo book has faded but deferring Baldwin has made me want to reread Maya Angelou.</div>
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Though it's not part of my 'fast' I've even cleared my Youtube watch list. Bailed on stagecraft performance seminar by opinionated blowhard, Paul McCartney carpool karaoke (bland emotional clickbait) making of Songs In The Key Of Life (seen it before – BTTSS: why watch 'bonus features' when you can enjoy the album instead?). </div>
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Whatever else it's achieving this 'fast' is meaning I spend a lot less time browsing on Amazon and trawling charity shops. So there's that.</div>
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Started reading the wife's copy of <b>The Redbreast </b>(my first Harry Hole book) on the bus. Felt I needed to have a 'treat' stored up as I'm working long hours. Surprised to see I'd read over 100 pages by the evening. Now each new book/film is an 'event'.</div>
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Couldn't work up enthusiasm for listening to <b>Southeastern (Jason Isbell)</b> yesterday – felt I was 'trying' to like it. So I listened to the last track 'Relatively Easy', connected with the message and listening to it a second time. Then listened to the penultimate track 'Yvette' twice and back to the last track once. Today I went back another track but felt I'd got everything 'Super 8' had to give in one listen, so went back another track 'New South Wales'. Still kind of savouring though I doubt this album will become the long term favourite that <b>The Nashville Sound</b> is.</div>
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New film. Watched <b>Rumble In The Bronx</b> with the kids. </div>
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Rereading <b>All The Pretty Horses</b>. (third time in six years) Love it. </div>
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After work took Zeppo to see <b>Captain Marvel</b> again as a 'well done on you school report' reward.</div>
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Family Film Night. Rewatched <b>Penguins Of Madagascar</b>. Hilarious and quotable.</div>
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After being read to as a child and reading it to Groucho when she was about 10 years old, I'm finally reading <b>Lord Of The Rings</b> for my own enjoyment. And I am.</div>
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Very busy day today but reading LotR outside in the sunshine was a blessed respite. </div>
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Not in a hurry today so stopped in at a charity shop. Saw two Robicheaux novels I haven't read. Tempted. Maybe would have been more so if they'd been next in the series but I'm not desperate to read them YET (or ever...?) and I haven't run out of books yet. And there's always the library when I do...</div>
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Was planning to watch The Dirt (Motley Crue) 'with' Mark but when our schedules didn't sync up and he showed no enthusiasm I was thinking of watching it on my own. But then I thought 'why?' I don't even WANT to watch it.</div>
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29/04/19</div>
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I'm still not really enjoying my previously watched/read stuff because I'm focused on the few new items I still have left. Maybe I should try to burn through all of those quickly?</div>
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30/03/19</div>
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Bought a book! The out of print <b>Meditations From The Breakdown Lane</b> about trans-America running goes for £80 on eBay was on Amazon for £8. </div>
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Feel tempted by <b>John Wick 2 </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and </span><b>Disobedience</b> that are free on Amazon Prime. </div>
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04/04/19</div>
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Rewatched <b>Telstar</b> with kids – Good Lord, it gets dark after the hilarious opening 20 minutes! It joins <b>Matrix Reloaded </b>in the charity shop pile. Like Wagner the latter has some wonderful moments and some terrible quarter of an hours. </div>
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06/04/19</div>
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<b>Back To The Future</b> for Family Film Night.</div>
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07/04/19</div>
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10/04/19</div>
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Johnny English Strikes Again (again). The kids love it. </div>
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LotR book 4 is a bit of a slog – just like that portion of the films. </div>
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11/04/19</div>
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Listening to <b>Tom Waits' Rain Dogs</b> while running in the sunshine. Freedom!</div>
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12/04/19</div>
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Rewatched <b>The Pelican Brief</b> for Family Film Night. Kids enjoyed it. First saw it at the Mansfield Odeon on a date followed bolognese pizza. </div>
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16/04/19</div>
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Realised most recommendations are half-hearted “you ought to watch/read this” but when pressed it's rarely that that the person LOVES it or thinks YOU'LL love it. It seems like we're so keen to find things to fill each others lives up with. </div>
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I've started a 'Captain America List' (see Winter Soldier) where I add things to watch/read after this fast ends. But I'm only adding things people REALLY recommend. </div>
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16/04/19</div>
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New films. Watched <b>First Man</b> with the kids and <b>The Children's Act</b> with the Mrs. Both merely OK. </div>
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1/5/19</div>
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Dug out a <i><u><b>cassette</b></u></i> of <b>The Goon Show</b> episodes to listen to while I washed the pots. Haven't listened to those in decades (Goons or cassettes).</div>
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4/5/19</div>
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There's an old jazz record shop in Nottingham. They also sell used DVDs – but they're not labelled 'used' or 'second-hand', they're 'previously enjoyed'. </div>
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Started <b>David Copperfield</b>. This is the last unread fiction book I possess. After this it really is all 'previously enjoyed.'</div>
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5/5/19</div>
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Finished <b>Beastie Boys Book</b>. Down to my last seven non-fiction. </div>
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12/5/19</div>
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Introduced my two youngest to <b>Hot Fuzz</b> a few weeks ago and tonight we all watched it again to their (and my) great delight.</div>
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14/5/19</div>
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Found an abandoned copy of <b>Edgar Allen Poe </b>at work and contemplated taking it home. Not sure I want to read it, but it's the fear of scarcity (FOS) kicking in again. It'll still be there in a couple of months if I get desperate.</div>
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16/5/19</div>
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Forced myself to sit down and watch my copy of <b>The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner</b> that I've had knocking about for ages. I think Marie Kondo's right when she talks about missing your chance to read a book “<i>you may have wanted to read it when you bought it, but if you haven't read it by now, the book's purpose was to teach you that you didn't need it” </i>(p.106-7). When I picked up the DVD (on sale) last year I was on an Alan Sillitoe kick - wanted to read the book as well and watch Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The enthusiasm wore off months ago leaving me with a DVD I no longer wanted to watch. But today I did and, unsurprisingly, I didn't enjoy it at all. Onto the charity shop pile.</div>
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24/05/19</div>
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Saw an <b>Incredibles</b> T-shirt today. I wanted to buy it, because I love that film so much. Got me thinking about the irrational excitement I feel when I see a cheap copy of a film or book I love, which I already own. I feel like I buying it again will somehow increase my enjoyment of the thing INSTEAD OF GOING HOME AND MAKING THE TIME TO WATCH THE FILM ITSELF AGAIN! It's the same impulse that drives me to buy different editions of favourites (eg an album of instrumental mixes of Jellyfish albums) and watch endless bonus features and 'making of' featurettes and of course become a completist. </div>
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When you love something you're tempted to buy everything by that author, artist, director. This can be great but not everything will be worth keeping and it's OK to stop if you start to get diminishing returns and it's definitely OK to only keep the ones you love. I'm finding this with Dickens. I've enjoyed everything I've read but I've only LOVED <b>Great Expectations </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span><b> A Tale Of Two Cities</b>. So after a bit of research maybe I only love later-Dickens. After eight books I definitely no longer need to read EVERYTHING he wrote.</div>
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27/05/19</div>
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My only unwatched DVDs are 3 volumes of <b>Laurel and Hardy</b>. I love L&H so why haven't I watched them? Because every DVD is a mix of the good and the classic, alongside the 'OK' to very poor silents (and even some where L&H are bit part players in someone else's film) and 'past their best' long features. It's a completists wet dream. And indeed I have these 3 DVDs because they complete the 21 CD box set I've been collecting for several years. So FOMO is telling me to watch them all just to check there aren't some hidden classics there but I'm struggling to work up the enthusiasm. And don't get me even started on getting rid of unloved DVDs to make my complete set incomplete again! What a dilemma. The best I can come up with at the moment is to put a tick or a cross next to the titles to 'sort' them. </div>
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10/06/19</div>
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<b>Big Lebowski.</b> Never gets old.</div>
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15/06/19</div>
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Finally moved my cassette deck and record deck within easy reach. Since then I've dug out cassettes and vinyl <b>David Lindley (Win This Album), Debussy, Shostakovitch, Charlie Parker</b>. WONDERFUL. Having things in different formats just makes the artefacts themselves feel special and distinctive. I know that's romantic nonsense. </div>
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16/06/19</div>
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Father's Day. Got four new books and a DVD, <b>A Perfect Day</b> (Del Toro film), and watched it immediately with the kids. Must have watched it 5 or 6 times already. Started reading one them (<b>Black Cherry Blues</b>) too.</div>
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25/06/19</div>
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Today I picked up <b>The Code of the Woosters</b> from the library. I have read it before (twice) - even owned it – but I KonMari-ed the giant omnibus edition it was in as holding it did NOT spark joy in my wrists. The novel itself is a hoot.</div>
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26/06/19</div>
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Groucho (and the whole internet) have been telling me to watch <b>Chernobyl</b>. Today I noticed it only has 11 days left on NOWTV. My chimp brain says MUST BINGE NOW! FOMO alert! </div>
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I COULD ask my wife (or kids) if they want to watch it and exploit that loophole but I'll trust the universe to 'bring it back to me' if I NEED to watch it. Having made the decision I felt a lot better. At some point I'll look through the recommended box sets on my Captain America List and ask the family if they genuinely want to watch any. If not, those shows can wait. </div>
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At the moment me and the Mrs are thoroughly enjoying revisiting <b>My Name Is Earl</b> season 2.</div>
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29/06/19</div>
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Shared my theory about everyone recommending filler rather than 'must see' with my friend Andy. After some reflection he said “You know what is must see? Chernobyl”. Don't give in to FOMO! It'll be out on DVD or streaming next January.</div>
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01/07/19</div>
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Sherlock Holmes was my favourite character when I was 8-10 years old. Various film and TV adaptations have taken the shine of him a little. So I took a trip back via my son's copy of <b>The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes</b> to get reacquainted. I enjoyed it, for it's failures as much as it's successes. But I've no desire to go through the whole collection. </div>
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Next up. <b>The Great Gatsby</b>. I HATED it when I read it in my early twenties, it was full of spoilt rich people doing nasty things. Now I suspect that was kind of the point. Picked it up from the library. </div>
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Really enjoying my <b>David Lindley</b> cassette. Googling it/him read the consensus that his debut is even better. Saw a bootleg cassette! of it on eBay for £1. (Why am I surfing eBay?!?!?) Tempting. Very tempting. The OBJECT is part of the experience. But I listened to my own cassette a few more times. Do I need another? I don't.</div>
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02/07/19</div>
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Took the kids to see<b> Spiderman: Far From Home. </b>Just OK. </div>
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09/07/19</div>
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Digging out a <b>John Scofield</b> bootleg from my iTunes I found a single song that I have no idea of where I got it from – it's an absolute banger called <b>Hottentot</b> – I can't believe I haven't heard it or played it to death. I will now.</div>
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11/07/19</div>
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Rereading <b>The Stand (Stephen King)</b> 300 pages in, 1100 to go. It's good, but I'm not <i><b>loving</b></i> it and it's not going to be a keeper.</div>
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I'm very low on fiction. I have music and films to suit all moods, but 90% of my fiction is heavy, dark, long or all three. More than that most of it is stuff I've read or reread in the last 10 years. I started reading fiction again when I turned 40. In the 20 years previously (my christian phase) I read almost exclusively non-fiction, christian books. I would estimate I read no more than 40 secular or fiction books in the entire 2 decades. No wonder I have such a shallow well to draw from. That's sad. </div>
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14/07/19</div>
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Saw <b>The Martian</b> in The Works today for £2. Wanted to reread it, but didn't like the cover, so didn't buy it. I can always go to the library.</div>
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Got me thinking about the books I regret KonMari-ing, or at least want to reread.</div>
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Out of maybe 500 books this is the complete list so far.</div>
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19/07/19</div>
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Decided to reread and then immediately re-re-read <b>A Tale of Two Cities. </b> </div>
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21/07/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The downside of 'exception 1' is that you genuinely end up watching things you don't want to. We're on season 2 of </span><b>Big Little Lies</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> now and I'm hating almost every minute. But my GLW* is keen to watch </span><b>Chernobyl</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> too (now on NowTV boxset) so swings and roundabouts.</span></div>
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24/07/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Took my daughter Groucho to see </span><b>The Dead Don't Die</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> at Broadway. Not as much fun as promised.</span></div>
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27/07/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Rewatched </span><b>Koyaanisqatsi</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> with kids, and watched </span><b>Chernobyl</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> with mrs.</span></div>
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01/08/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Rewatched </span><b>The Whole Nine Yards</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and enjoyed it. Even with one box of DVDs it's still hard to just pick something to watch. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Immediate reread of </span><b>A Tale of Two Cities - </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm appreciating the writing more and picking up a few plot points and hints that I missed. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Reading </span><b>Here I Stand, Bainton</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">'s Martin Luther biography a chapter per day and enjoying that too.</span></div>
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02/08/19</div>
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13/08/19</div>
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Went to see <b>Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut</b> at IMAX mainly because it would make me sit down for the 3+ hours needed to watch it uninterrupted. I really enjoyed it when I watched it (in 2 sittings) a few years ago but, though I acknowledge it's greatness, I didn't love it, so when I got in I put the DVD in the charity shop pile. </div>
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15/08/19</div>
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Finished Two Cities (again). The second reading really brought out the depth and beauty of the prose. Honestly, I could go for a third time. But I might experiment next with watching a film multiple times in a row. </div>
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The Luther bio got bogged down when it became more theology than biography. May try the 'chapter a day' thing again with a different book.</div>
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17/08/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Watched </span><b>The Big Lebowski</b> again with my daughter - we both had a great time.</div>
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19/08/19</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Finished 73 hours of </span><b>Mark Lewisohn's Tune In</b> audiobook. What am I going to listen to while I work out? <b>Three Men In A Boat</b>. Which I've previously read and listened too. Finished the Emil Zatopek bio I got for Father's Day. Down to my last unread non-fiction book. </div>
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20/08/19</div>
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<b>Mindhunter</b> Season 2. Enjoyed S1, immediately hooked back in.<br />
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Rereading <b>Dracula</b>. Enjoying it so much. This is my 3rd time. Rewatched <b>12 Monkeys</b> and <b>Soylent Green</b>. Neither really held up. 12 Monkeys was another film we saw when a date at the cinema cost £1 each & Soylent I watched when at school. All I could remember was the delight in the dinner scene. In 2019 Brad Pitt is doing Johnny Depp levels of overacting & Charlton Heston is a mysogynistic jerk playing a mysogynistic jerk in a time when films were made by mysogynistic jerks.<br />
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Took my eldest to see <b>Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.</b> Good. Slow and oddly sweet for Tarantino.<br />
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27/08/19<br />
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The family are now watching <b>Agents of Shield Season 6</b> en masse now. Even though everyone agrees the quality has been steadily going down for years. Oh Coulson, I wish I knew how to quit you!<br />
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05/10/19<br />
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I've kept a list of everything I've watched, read etc for years. When I started this 'thing' I expected I reread and rewatch a lot more old, beloved stuff. But looking at the figures so far, that might not be the case. While new stuff is WAY down, the old stuff is just UP. Not WAY UP. At least not as much as I thought it would be.<br />
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There's some explanations for that.<br />
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<li>I will always read and watch more new stuff because I'll try stuff and then abandon it if it's not ringing my bells - '100 pages less my age' is how long I've always given a book to grab me. If it doesn't - then I bail. Even more so with TV shows. Whereas starting a much loved TV show or book and then ditching it early would be rare. </li>
<li>Also many of the books I love are longer. </li>
<li>And I read<b> Tale of Two Cities</b> twice.</li>
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All that being said, this year I am reading, watching and listening to LESS. That's a surprise. But it still feels positive. I'm more intentional, less stressed and savouring things more.<br />
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10/10/19<br />
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Rereading <b>No Compromise (Keith Green biography)</b> and relistening to <b>No Compromise (Keith Green album</b> - on cassette!). Both were very important to me once upon a time but I've held onto them for sentimental value and though they were enjoyable to revisit I'm not that person anymore. Charity shop.<br />
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14/10/19<br />
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Robert Forster died recently. Rewatched <b>Jackie Brown</b> in his memory. It is a hugely enjoyable film and he's great in it.<br />
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17/10/19<br />
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My daughter left her <b>Millennium trilogy (Dragon Tattoo)</b> here with her recommendation and I've just finished the last one. Well-written page turners.<br />
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23/10/19<br />
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Finally watched one of my <b>Laurel and Hardy</b> DVDs and finished <b>Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone</b>. My unread/unwatched list now consists of ONE Laurel and Hardy DVD and a pdf of a dissertation on Bulgarian Choir Music.<br />
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Rewatching season 2 of <b>The Good Place </b>and<b> The Thick of It. </b>Both great.<br />
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31/10/19<br />
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Had a Halloween/Sigourney Weaver double bill for FFN*. <b>Alien</b> followed by <b>Ghostbusters.</b> Both great films, but if I'm honest I have no desire to watch <b>Alien</b> again in the foreseeable future. Thank you and let you go. <b>Ghostbusters </b>on the other hand I could watch every week...<br />
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Rereading <b>War and Peace</b>. I'm a little sad that this will probably be my last book of the year (as it runs to 1400 pages) but there you go.<br />
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7/11/19<br />
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Found a copy of <b>2112 </b>by<b> Rush</b> on the mac and rewatched <b>Enter The Dragon</b>. I can appreciate the artistry of both but in the cold light of 2019 they are total cheesefests. I wish Bruce Lee had made a film that adequately showcased his talents but he never did and trying to like them more is not going to change that now. Charity shop.<br />
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12/11/19<br />
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Enjoying digging out various albums from my hard drive. <b>The Temptations - At Their Best, Tom Waits - Alice, Trio Bulgarka - The Forest Is Crying, Pedro The Lion - Control...</b><br />
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14/11/19<br />
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Went on a cinema date with my GLW - <b>The Good Liar</b>. Was good, bit slow, guessed the 'twist' from watching the trailer...<br />
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08/12/19<br />
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Been really ill for a week. On book 2 of <b>War and Peace</b> but it's a hard to pick up. Rewatched a bunch of stuff<br />
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<b>Assault on Precinct 13</b><br />
<b>All The President's Men</b><br />
<b>Bad Words</b><br />
<b>Children of Men </b><br />
<b>Die Hard</b><br />
<b>The Martian</b><br />
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also got an unexpected final freebie from Rakuten which I spent on <b>Band Aid</b> (indie comedy, not the charity concert).<br />
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10/12/19<br />
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Been pulling old rock stuff out of my iTunes. Kind of disturbed at how casual and commonplace male violence against women is - it's almost it's own sub genre.<br />
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<i>Now you might think I'm messing</i><br />
<i>Or he don't exist</i><br />
<i>But honey I'm confessing</i><br />
<i>I'm a mad sexual rapist</i><br />
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<i>There's a killer on the loose again</i><br />
<i>A killer on the loose</i><br />
<i>There's a killer on the loose again</i><br />
<i>A lady killer on the loose</i><br />
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Thin Lizzy: Killer on the Loose<br />
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<i>As you lie there naked like a body in a tomb</i><br />
<i>Suspended animation as I slip into your room</i><br />
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<i>I'm your night prowler, break down your door</i><br />
<i>I'm your night prowler, crawling across your floor</i><br />
<i>I'm the night prowler, make a mess of you, yes I will</i><br />
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AC/DC: Night Prowler<br />
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15/12/19<br />
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Watched<b> Knives Out </b>(great) and<b> 6 Underground </b>(terrible) with the kids. Rewatched <b>Fight Club, Heat</b> and<b> Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. </b>First two are still classics. <b>Heat</b> is almost Tolstoyian in it's multitude of characters and side plots. <b>Ghost Dog</b> manages to be cool and annoying at the same time. I'll donate that one to the charity shop.<br />
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18/12/19<br />
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Christmas shopping means I'm inadvertently picking up books/DVDs for myself that I see on sale. I don't want to slip back into this. Buying stuff that I don't REALLY want, just cos it's cheap. Bargains are good, but if I wouldn't pay full price for it then it's not something I really NEED in my life.<br />
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2020<br />
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Found the following in an old diary. It's a reminder of the overwhelm I used to live in (in this case as a book hoarding would-be preacher).<br />
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72 books on my 'to read' list when I started! So many that I had to divide them into subgroups! Oy Ve!</div>
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No new books, films, TV shows or podcasts in 2019. Only reread, rewatch and relisten.</div>
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Films/TV I watch with the children or wife.</div>
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Films/books I watch/read with book club.</div>
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Unread/watched books/films I already own.</div>
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Books/films I receive as gifts. </div>
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New episodes of shows I've already started.</div>
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My monthly free film on Rakuten TV.</div>
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Songs I have to learn for work.</div>
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<b>KonMari-ing/KMing</b> - reducing clutter and possessions by the 'Kon Mari' method as popularised in The Life Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo.<br />
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<b>soc med</b> - social media<br />
<b>FFN</b> - Family Film Night</div>
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<b>FOMO</b> - Fear of missing out</div>
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<b>FOS</b> - Fear of scarcity</div>
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<b>FOW</b> - Fear of waste</div>
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<b>BTTSS</b> - Bought The T-Shirt syndrome - loving something so much you have to watch all the bonus features, making of documentaries, collect merch, alternative versions instead of just enjoying the thing itself.<br />
<b>GTW</b> - Good Lady Wife.<br />
<b>GBBO</b> - Great British Bake-Off</div>
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<b>Captain America List</b> - a list of things you should check out that you might have missed (while you've been frozen in the ice for 70 years) from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hna58-rdauo">Captain America: The Winter Soldier</a>.</div>
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A crazy ultra where everyone starts at different times with the intention of all finishing at the same time? I'm in! Especially when I heard it was organised (and I mean that in the very loosest sense of the word) by James Adams who featured in the Barkley Marathons film <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80076413"><b>The Race That Eats It's Young</b></a> (now showing on Netflix) as Woefully Unprepared English Man.</div>
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I suspect this was a combination of self effacing English humour and Hollywood editing as anyone who completes even one loop of the Barkley is a <b><i>stone cold freaking legend of ultrarunning</i></b>.<br />
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I started off in the 9:30 wave, leaving me 6 1/2 hours to 'get to the pub' having been warned that the 50k was actually 32.7 miles. We were giving detailed instructions such as 'TL, TR', 'Mind your head' and 'stop to read a lovely poem'. Needless to say I was getting mildly but repeatedly lost in the first 4 miles (as I was constantly being reminded by a lady with a Garmin who informed me I was "having a really bad day". Ah the camaraderie of the trails!).<br />
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Around that time I remembered I had attempted to load the gpx file into an app I'd downloaded on my phone. Hallelujah! There it was! Remarkably I still continued getting lost after opening the app, but at least now I was confidently lost.<br />
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Making better time I made a few new friends, Carl, an heroic ex-army guy who's run the London Marathon in 45lbs of kit and done Race To The Stone TWICE, and Barrie who races in sandals and has run the Copper Canyon Ultra in Mexico with the Tarahumara Indians. </div>
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Pounding away in the sun, we headed through an aid station in someone's front yard (with runners popping in to use the loo) and off onto a section we had been warned bore no relation to the GPX whatsoever, thrusting us back onto the vague and cryptic directions. As 3pm came up I found Radio5Live and listened to Liverpool beat Southampton. 4pm came and went and it was closer to 5pm when I finally got back to Box End Park. The park was full of people doing water things and those big banners things that usually mark the end of a race. I headed for some only to realise they lead straight into the lake. I ran over a bridge asking bystanders for direction to the finish line. I ran between 2 small traffic cones, one of which was knocked over. "Is that the finish line?" I asked. "Yes". "Oh. OK."<br />
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After lying down, soaking my feet in the lake and getting changed I finally 'got to the pub' - on my own as people were still waiting on other runners to come in, and had an ice cold coke - as I was driving straight to London afterwards. </div>
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It was a mad race, but a good one. Feet swollen, one tiny blister and very tired of course, but I haven't destroyed myself and should be back training by the end of next week which was the goal. </div>
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Matt Blickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07532287235128200046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6090713922976943968.post-24224772226583354862019-08-02T19:47:00.000+01:002019-08-20T20:05:09.935+01:00Nottingham Castle Rock 10k 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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Nothing too crazy before my next big race - a nice evening 51:01 and rocked in at 156th place. A T-shirt and lots of free food!!!<br />
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So I dropped to the 46k option with the goal of completing without breaking myself. Secondary goal was beating the cutoff followed by a PB compared to my two closest races. </div>
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Well I totally underestimated the terrain. It wasn't just the vert but the fact that the majority of the course was so technical. Sharp stones and roots, (literally) crazy paving, really narrow heather-lined paths that made me keep kicking myself in the ankle. And so much of it on the downhills.<br />
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We started 15 minutes late, due to an evil farmer locking the gates and parking his lethal tractor in the way, but I still missed every cut off point by 5 or 10 minutes even after I engaged on a suicidal downhill duel with a reject from Wonka's chocolate factory (seriously dude, your running club's colours must have looked way better on paper) but the race organisers were chilled and I still bagged a medal even though I finished 1 min 47 secs over the cut off. </div>
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Unlike <a href="http://blogafter909.blogspot.com/2019/05/dukeries-40.html">my last race</a> I kept eating - whenever I felt grumpy I ate. Good strategy. And rather than deciding that I fancied a certain food and then eating it, I ate a little of something and then decided based on how it felt AFTER eating it. This worked really well. </div>
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My size 11 trail shoes meant only 1 blister - big toe as usual - but no bruises (apart from where I'd repeatedly kicked my left ankle) and no tendonitis. Maybe the kicking was down to my massive boats, but it could have just been lack of overall fitness/form and the stupid narrow trails. My ankles were destroyed by the technical trails. </div>
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I topped up the hydration pack at every opportunity - good move. And relubed after 35k (meant to do 25k but forgot). Still got SOME chafing but that was not applying it in the right spots. </div>
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