Running Past

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

It was! Hope you are having a good weekend ☮️

That is a very low bar

Me in a blue tabard with Isabelle also in a blue pacing tabard.

Muddy cones of two different sizes and arrows waiting to be put out by me.

A large oak called Quercus in a parkland setting. It is grey and gloomy, it is beginning to bud up.

Trees leafing up in the gloom, grass around them.

It was pacing week at Catford #parkrun, I had a slightly bigger number than normal on my back - there were a couple two PBs as a result. Artistic arrow & cone flinging before (set up) & puddle jumping & fallen tree climbing like a 3 year old, with a 3 year old, afterwards. #JogDivision #GreenRunners

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

7 March 1925 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Lenczner, was born in Częstochowa.

In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23597
He did not survive.
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🎧/📖 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://bit.ly/46t6L5w

First timers welcome

Scanners in pink tabards

RD Jan before the start

The large oak near the start and finish

Catford #parkrun 339 saw 191 finishers in slippery conditions - there were 33 1st timers, with 3 doing their 1st parkrun. There were 24 PBs some helped by our brilliant team of pacers. As always, a massive thank you to the 31 volunteers who made it all happen!

www.parkrun.org.uk/catford/resu...

Well done! That’s brilliant!

A large building with floor to ceiling windows and ornate ceiling. There is a stuffed giraffe in a strange position dominating the room.

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Inside the Petit Palais in Paris complete with a taxidermy giraffe

That first sitting out in the garden of the year is psychologically so important.

Decorative panels painted in maroon, free and gold above an archway

A decorative panel mainly in maroon with pillars either side.

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Inside the being restored Crossness pumping station in SE London

Black signs downstream on the Thames towards Kingston and Teddington Lock to the right, towards the source of the Thames upstream to the left. Skies are blue above the sign.

Thames Path signage near Hampton Court #FingerpostFriday

Early stroll. Drizzle gently baptises my face. The horizon’s hesitant smile. A gathering of plant pots by a side door. Number plates as lyrics, engine sounds as music. A man crosses the road at the speed of hi-vis light.

Adult heron standing by a river

Adult heron standing on nest high up in a tree

Close up of a juvenile heron’s head

Adult heron standing on concrete wall behind it is wire fencing

At Home with the Gil Scotts, Deptford Heron Watch 2025/26 Season (8) On The Nest (Attempt 3) One of the adults is sitting on the nest, with 4/5 others in close proximity. There appears to be a ceasefire with the crows. #brookmillpark #herons #riverravensbourne #lewisham

Inside a Perspex cube with several multicoloured squares of glass. The sun is shining through. Outside is a quayside.

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Inside “El Cubo" at the Centre Pompidou, Málaga

Plumber wins by-election for Greens

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Early stroll. The made-to-measure sky. A possibility of loitering mist. Historic sites of former puddles. The bus passes slowly, like time sometimes does. A security light blink, blinks again, then stays awake.

It seems to have been a good year for them, everywhere in my neck of the woods at the moment.

A color photo of the interior of Palicio de Cristal, in Spain. The windows are covered with a film that casts rainbow colors in sunshine, embellished by mirrored floors, the interior is a sensort art exhibit. The windows surround all sides, even the ceiling is glass windows. 📷 Kim Joo Ja

Palacio de Cristal in Madrin, Spain. Film is applied to the glass windows to create the rainbow interior & the floors are covered w/a mirrored surface to reflect the light.

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A vaulted ceiling and lots of tall pillars with arches at the top, in the centre there is a mezzanine level with ornate spiral staircases going up to. Beyond is the altar and stained glass.

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The inside of the Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris, a Parisian church.

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

‘the gene pool of talent (in the Tory party) is no more than a puddle.’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We had about half an hour of sunshine today and I managed to be out in all of it!

Mike doing course set up

A guide to the steps of being a #parkrun marshal 1 Sign up 2 Turn up (around 8:30) 3 Wear hi viz - picture is yellow, although it will be pink 4 Stand at marshal point 5 Direct 6 High 5 7 Encourage 8 All done, feel satisfied

Dana at her hilltop directing

Barcode scanners

Can you pace other runners to a #parkrun time of 20 to 30 minutes? Can you marshal (a guide is attached)? Can you scan tokens or hand them out? If your answer is yes to any of them & can be in Catford on Saturday we’d love to hear from you! Apply via the link.
www.parkrun.org.uk/catford/futu...

I feel confident that the sort of people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax would say that those fleeing war in other countries are not our concern and they should seek refuge in a neighbouring country. In this case I’d suggest Iran, which they can reach by small boat.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Aged runner in red top and shades attempting, and failing, to merge into his surroundings by standing next to a tree with white blossom.

Trees with a hedge with white blossom to their right, daffodils underneath and a path to the left.

Close up of daffodils

Pond with several ducks backed by reeds

That a slow, struggle of a 10k was the second longest run of the year, is a sad indictment of my health and fitness in 2026. It’s a base to work from though, and further than I thought I’d manage when I left home for Sutcliffe Park. #GreenRunners #JogDivision #RunningPunks

Early stroll. String tied around a streetlight. A pile of twigs like a fascinator museum. The simple beauty of a bus shelter. A yellow and green toy supermarket trolley in a garden. That fence is wearing a discarded jacket.

I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

Two people walking through a large grassy gateway with mountains beyond

Hooray it's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Heading home after a day of digging, through the enormous collapsed gateway passage of Dinas Dinlle hillfort, in Gwynedd

Quite a view of the stunning mountains of central Eryri/Snowdonia for those leaving the fort - & the great Nantlle ridge😮⛰️

📷 My own, Aug 21

A simple English Victorian rural church, white walls, wooden walls and pews, arched windows. The altar is in the distance. It replaced a church which was lost to coastal erosion.

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St James Church, Dunwich, Suffolk

Hunstanton, Norfolk

#TidesOutTuesday

📷 28.02.2026