AlanGMarz @alangmarz@mastodon.online

Not all heartache is bad, with hindsight. https://alanmarsden.me/a-rainy-night-by-the-sea

To @chuckjordan and other appreciators of fluffy friends. This is Jules, one of my best friends.

I hope the five-star review I gave for Gluon helps @vincent and compensates for the unnecessary one-star someone else entered.

📚 I hope no one shoots the messenger. Some thoughts on a short book about a different kind of love.

No. 16 in #100DaysToOffload https://alanmarsden.me/a-new-kind-of-love

Maybe I should have kept this one anonymous. https://alanmarsden.me/j17vy9v3pnmmz6c8

Ironically I told a colleague today I rarely run 5K, and usually a lot more. 🏃🏃‍♀️

Well, I’ve got my comeuppance. I could only run 5K tonight. My legs felt like lead.

📷 Still, it was a beautiful sunset.

Online privacy needs to be more rigorous. Private firms have no right to track anyone.

I find it ironic that the BBC has become an activist on environmental issues, yet their listings magazine comes in a plastic bag with extra junk mail enclosed.

My wife will be disappointed. A friend sent me a box of what we thought was Portuguese wine, as an early birthday present. Which I’m sure would have been nice.

But never assume anything by its delivery packaging.

It was seven types of craft beer. 😁🍺

A drive through the Autumn countryside. We stopped to take the view at the Windy Gap, while we waited for Rita’s mini to get serviced.

Grand surroundings for brunch, before the semi-lockdown begins. French toast, bacon and maple syrup. I also had my first coffee outside home in seven months.

🏃🏃‍♀️📷 I took this photo of a nearby lough on yesterday’s lunchtime run. One reason I don’t join a running club is I don’t think they would appreciate the photo stops.

Seven months working from here. This is home, where I want to spend the rest of my life with Rita - nestled among the trees of an ancient ring fort.

#adayinthelife, 12:42 BST.

Blogging helps me think; microblog proves a social community can have a heart. https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/09/24/a-day-in.html

I love Autumn (or The Fall), and thanks to my iPhone, I received an On this day memory.

From late September to mid-October 2008 Rita and I travelled to the USA to enjoy New England in the Fall. We had a wonderful time. Oddly though, it has been our only visit to America, so far.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️I love my new running route, with miles more narrow country roads. Today’s lunchtime run was 7.8 miles, taking me by a spooky house and field upon field of maize.

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Today on my lunchtime run, I wondered why it had taken six years to discover more of my local countryside. I can only guess that my longer runs are encouraging me to explore new routes. Today offered beautiful Autumn colours and quiet roads.

A robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) has been banging his head on our patio doors for two days. I think he has confused his reflection with an intruder in his territory.

On a cold and sunny day in Dublin, a trip to see The Rolling Stones provided some valuable life lessons. Maybe some day we’ll enjoy similar days again. https://www.sayitwiththelighton.blog/life-lessons-the-rolling-stones/

Today I am grateful for everything. Just as I am every day. I’m grateful for my life, my family and love shared with my wife, and the health I enjoy.

I am grateful for the people I know, the income I have and freedom to go out running in the beautiful sunshine. 🏃🏃‍♀️

Today, I bought myself a new coat for winter. Best of all, I fitted a size medium, instead of large. Yay 😊