I’m going to try this to see what traction I get here. Well into its fifth year, here’s the latest edition of Flanagan’s Running Club. Introduction The first rule of Flanagan’s Running Club is everyone should be telling everyone they know about Flanagan’s Running Club! After all, sharing is caring. …

I know my enemy I’ve seen them before I know my enemy I’ve had them on the floor My enemy knows me Better than most My enemy knows me They want me to be toast We have fought for years Over any trivial thing We have fought for years Wanting…

Touch the mirror Reach into that void Feel the ripple As your hand disappears Take a deep breath And submerge your face Take the gamble That there’s something else Open up your eyes And with them your mind Open up your mouth And breathe it all in A new world…

The typewriter sits on the table silent A virgin sheet of crisp white paper inserted But the keys do not move My fingers hover My mind is as blank as the paper The first seventeen pages had flown So fast the paper was scorched from the speed Now page eighteen…

I was at a loose end on a Saturday for a change, so it was time for another Crawley wander. I was heading (nominally) for St Peter’s Church for their book sale. It was a bright morning when I set out, and as I turned onto the path at the…

It’s been a while since I’ve done a piece on Medium. After the barrage of posts following the trip to Budapest and then Bodiam and Brightling straight after, there has been nothing. And it has been six weeks. It isn’t as if we haven’t been doing things or going to…

Having been to Bodiam Castle earlier in the afternoon, we visited the church of St Thomas A Becket in the village of Brightling in East Sussex in the evening of the 23rd of March 2022.

No sooner had we got back from Budapest than we were looking for somewhere to go for the day and continuing our theme for March for the last half dozen years or so decided it needed to be somewhere beginning with a B (Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, Boston, Budapest, Brighton, etc.)…

I love to look around churches. Wherever we go. Whether it is the grand masterpieces such as La Sagrada Familia, or St Paul’s Cathedral, or the little medieval village churches such as St Thomas A Becket at Brightling. …