A lovely day for us with family, presents and food (and a parkrun in my case).
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Tag: Christmas
Phone Box Thursday: Merry Christmas!
A few years ago, a fellow user on FetchEveryone (knowing I was a phone box fan) notified me of a phone box near her that is always specially decorated for Christmas. I realised I’ve never posted about it here, so here’s the BBC article about it.
I have actually featured this phone box before, but not in its Christmas state!
(Coordinates 52°41’70.6″N, 0°34’37.7″E.)
Anne also sent a Facebook link to this lovely one earlier today.
Hope to see some more Christmassy phone boxes out there!
Merry Christmas!
I’ve done my best to clear the decks for a good break this Christmas, so I’m trying to do as little as possible. Hope everyone reading has a lovely festive season!
Pleased to say I survived Whamageddon for the first time ever! This was largely due to a noble act by Geth at parkrun on Saturday morning – someone was playing the song on the start line, he recognised it and dragged me away before I could hear it (his hearing is a lot better than mine), sacrificing himself to Whamhalla in the process. In future years I’ll be taking myself out of the game by playing the song in the early hours of 1st December – the last few days have been a bit unexpectedly stressful! I did really enjoy playing the video on YouTube at 2am this morning though!
A lovely early run with my headtorch this morning to start the day, and soon we’ll be having breakfast and presents with the family.
parkrundays: Pendle #426 and Town Moor #604
A quick parkrunday catchup.
Last week I was at Pendle again while visiting the in-laws. The course was muddier than usual but I was pleased to improve on my September course PB, taking off another 54 seconds with a 28:42. Up until August 2023, 28:42 was my all-time parkrun PB, set in 2018 in much more amenable conditions at Town Moor, and so to equal that on the toughest parkrun course I do semi-regularly was pretty special. I was really pleased with that.
Today I returned to Town Moor, scene of my new all-time PB a fortnight ago. The conditions were not good at all – 45 mph winds on the Moor – and so I didn’t expect to get anywhere near that time. But somehow I managed 26:10 – so another 13 seconds off the PB! Can’t believe it!
Next week I’ll be visiting a parkrun I haven’t done for nearly four years! Looking forward to it…
Phone Box Thursday: Wells Road, Malvern Wells
Still in the Malvern area this week!
(Coordinates 52°07’79.3″N, 2°33’23.8″W.)
This one is an information point and book exchange. It looks very well stocked and used!
Anne also sent me a link to this lovely Christmassy phone box image (links to Facebook). Nice to have a Christmas phone box picture!
More from the Malvern area next week.
Merry Christmas!
I’ve had a nice few weeks prepping for Christmas and am now enjoying the celebrations with family. I hope you’re all having a lovely time too!
I’ve got some New Year’s Resolutions posts coming up next week, some additional festive parkrunning and some blog plans to share. In the meantime, I’ll be doing a lot of videogaming and sleeping. Enjoy the festivities everyone!
parkrunday: Town Moor #563
A great parkrun to start Christmas Eve this morning. I managed a faster time than I have been doing recently, which is not bad considering how much juggling of marathon training I needed to do this week!
Afterwards we joined the social run group at the café for sherry (Geth) and mince pies (both of us)! It was lovely to be able to say happy Christmas to everyone before we decamped for the break.
Not parkrunning tomorrow as we’re taking the time to enjoy Christmas morning – but there’ll be a couple for Hogmanay and New Year’s Day next week!
Evening mode
Bit of a sluggish day today – it’s been one of those grey and wet ‘lights on all day’ November days, which always puts my brain into evening mode before it’s evening – but despite the rain I am looking forward to getting out to my Pilates class later this afternoon. Gradually doing the last-ish of my Christmas shopping as well, which is always a cheering experience.