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We've been without TV in our household since 2013. Good for our family life. TV license here in Germany still compulsory I'm afraid.

All Creatures Great and Small is back on...BBC4 on thursday night. They all look so young. I didn't realise Tristan Farnan was such a cock.

38m loop on the bike today. I shortened down from 44 due to an increase in plica soreness. Kex Gill makes me very angry. The flow sessions are...

Perfect running weather for todays solitary outing. A foray into the easterly Staffordshire Moorlands. Starting at The Butchers Arms at Reaps Moor...

It's probably already a slow motion car crash, Stolly, you just don't know it yet. I can see you making all the same mistakes that brought me to my...

Our monthly takeaway Sunday lunch from the Lathkil Hotel today. Roast pork with perfect crackling. Delicious. However there was a bonus. When I...

13 miles/800ft cross-country this morning, and a gentle 3.5 miles this evening. Brings weekly total to 68 miles, which is fairly pleasing given i had...

I watched the entire 50km cross-country skiing this afternoon, was absolutely superb.

Excellent work getting 6 Fs in there :) Well done to all involved, it made me laugh

ITV4 18:00 Paris-Nice cycle race highlights. Coverage starting today and then, by the looks of it, all week at the slightly later time of 19:00

Sorry Mark yes Imean the LDWA 3 rings of Staveley 50 miler is cancelled I know nothg of the other commercial trail race 50 miler:rolleyes: TBH I...

I startled half a dozen curlew on todays run in the marshy fields near Reaps Moor this morning and they made a right racket which was music to my...

More signs of spring with woodpeckers hammering away in Great Farley wood on this morning's run.

A veritable feast of wildlife on my cross-country run in the area between Coventry and Birmngham. Spotted a Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, also what i...

John - do you mean the actual Lakeland 50, or the Spring in to Lakeland 50? I'm told the latter is cancelled (I had an entry but withdrew when they...

17 hill reps, 51km, 1009m, 2:43 Looking at next 4th July. I'm due to be in the dolomites for 138km 4230m. Not sure how I can prepare here in...

12.15 miles, 3,282 feet, 3 hours 22 minutes: Fairfield c/w. Overcast at first, but the cloud thinned out later, and its base was always above the...

Lakeland 50 cancelled final details still being worked out but it seems that it may become a virtual event, and if you provide proof of completion...

Had a beautifully lit run around the Pipers Loop this morning, some amazing crepuscular rays spotlighting the high point of Hen Cloud as I was...

Fantastic. We have a race. Fellbeast's Fearsome Fountains Fell Furlongs and Fathoms. When shall we have it. First of February ;)

I could RO :) If you know where to look there’s a couple of bogs on Fountains Fell that could easily be measured in fathoms. And the straight up...

Just got one. Fountains Fell Furlongs and Fathoms. Just need a RO now!

Your ideas, Noel and Moley, could be the basis and name of a new fell race. All we need is a suitable hill or village beginning with the letter F.

I like the idea, for all bike races held on British soil, ascent/descent measured in fathoms? That should sort Jonny foreigner out, never know where...

Furlongs is the way to go.

Don't scrap the BBC. All is forgiven. I have just watched Top of the Pops - The Story of 1978. A scary and brilliant watch at the same time. ...

South-eastwards to South Croxton, then south-west to Leicester, where a nice lady at the Peepul Centre stuck a needle into my arm. Then back home by...

The allotments are on the north side of the village with a few houses a couple of hundred yards to the east so as long as the wind is in the arc from...

I had a surprise visit from my brother and my nephews, who came for a quick chat outside the house. They had been to a local country park and fed...