STILL RUNNING - STILL CELEBRATING

This is the last day of April and my blogposts have been few and far between this month. So this evening I will endeavour to complete this post about my local circuit running that I have had planned since Saturday April 8 earlier this month when I ran the 3.5 mile circuit twice in 01:31:30. I calculated my10K time as 1 hour and 20.5 minutes. Here I am in a staged photo, arranged after I had finished, returned home, and asked Louise to come out to take the image:

Easter Saturday - 8 April 2023 - heading home down the Stennack, with the Fire Station in the distance and the Leach Pottery on the other side of the road. My time for the 7 miles of running was 1 hour 31 minutes and 30 seconds - two minutes slower than the year before, in April 2022.    

These double runs are a rare and beautiful thing. They don't happen that often - and when they do, it's tangible evidence that there is still stamina in my body, despite three years of side-effects from my anti-hormonal drug treatment that has helped me fight the battle, successfully so far, against prostate cancer. First Zoladex for a year, and then Decapeptyl for a further two years, wiped out my testosterone and so

PEACE AND JUSTICE - SUPPORTING THE FIVE DEMANDS PUT FORWARD BY JEREMY CORBYN IN APRIL 2023

 

Our economy, our society, our politics, our values - all would have been enhanced if this man, Jeremy Corbyn, had not been targeted by the richest and most powerful in the land 

Support the Five Demands

put forward by Jeremy Corbyn in response to the Chancellor's budget for the 1% in April 2023

• A REAL PAYRISE FOR ALL

After years of real-term wage cuts, workers up and down the country are choosing between feeding their children or heating their homes, from nurses and teachers to rail workers and posties, these past few months have seen record levels of industrial action in the UK. Everyone has a right to live and work with dignity. That means giving nurses, teachers and public sector workers an above-inflation pay rise, implementing a minimum wage of £15 per hour, banning zero-hours contracts and reversing cruel benefit sanctions.

The people of Britain demand pay rises

• DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

As millions struggle to pay their energy bills, fossil fuel giants are taking home record profits. Private profiteering is plunging people into poverty and destroying our planet. Alongside water, rail and mail,