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This year’s fitness goal!

Last year around this time I was training hard for the Stockholm Marathon which was to be my first and so far only marathon. That was my fitness goal for last year and I was pretty chuffed to achieve it … Continue reading

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Easter at Tyresö Slott

8 of us got together for a Easter picnic at Tyresö Slott and Park on Saturday. Fantastic place, fantastic weather, fantastic day…

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Football

Just back from playing football in Farsta in south Stockholm tonight on an all weather pitch with floodlights etc. Been a while since I last played and although I never scored any goals or made any last second saving tackles, … Continue reading

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Spring

Even in this ice bound corner of the North, spring has finally sprung. Today I saw the first red squirrel of the year manhandling (should that be squirrelhandling?) a bird feeder to get at the nuts inside. I had to … Continue reading

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Neil comes to Stockholm, runs around and around…

Neil ran the Täby Extreme Challenge (161Km in 16 loops around a lake and some of Täby) and I paced him for 3 circuits during the hours of darkness. Was more of a long walk by that time because he … Continue reading

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Out of the cup…

Me and my Dad went to the Motherwell v Dundee United Scottish cup quarter final on Wednesday. Not exactly the result we were looking for. With us 3-0 down and 5 minutes to go, the Utd stand was nearly empty, … Continue reading

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The First Cast

After my first run of the year a few days ago, I managed to head out for my first spot of fishing, with my Dad on Loch Lomond. It was very nice conditions and we started a drift between the … Continue reading

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First run of the year!

I’m 8Kg fatter than the last time I went out running and it has been about 4 months since I done any training. Time to get started again!!! Over in Scotland at the moment, so got a lift into Bathgate … Continue reading

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New Mango Chunks Song!

At last, the moment the music world has been waiting for! A new release from Mango Chunks. Head on over to the Mango Chunks website and partake of a little Subway…

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Spring is on its way

In my last post, I was complaining about the -20 degree weather we have been having here, but maybe I was talking to soon. In fact we are seeing sure signs of spring in the air… Even the Roe Deer … Continue reading

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