Chris

Free Beer! If you can find someone of a similar pace to you to chat to and help pull you round it'll definitely help. At my first half I caught up with a clubmate after two miles and we did the rest of the race side by side. She basically dragged me through the last mile as all I wanted to do was sit down for five minutes.

Good luck! Try and enjoy it as much as possible. Best tip I can give you is to slow down, especially in the first half. You will be amazed how good you feel and you will bomb off a lot faster than you intended and then wonder why you're fucked for the last 3 miles. I need to get some races entered for later in the summer. Really struggling to get back into a routine at the mo with family commitments.

I read that one a few weeks ago. It's pretty good. Bit lighter than some of his other books. It was basically my re-introduction to King after I read his biography/writing how to On Writing. Started it the same week I watched Adventureland so I had a really good visual cue for what the park in King's book looked like.

The only King book which has defeated me in the past was Dolores Claiborne. So boring.

I don't think so. I just went back to it as it was one I had heard of but never read before. I've got The Stand loaded on the kindle to go next and The Gunslinger is ready as well to start me on The Dark Tower series. The Guardian are doing a series at the moment where they re-read all of King's books chronologically. http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/rereading-stephen-king

Just finishing off Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Going back and reading a few of his books I missed during my teenage King phase. This is a good one. It's very hard to produce a story about vampires now with any real sense of fear or jeopardy in it as all the tropes are so well known. However throughout the book there's a sense that everything is up for grabs and anyone could die at any time (and they do). It's also got a few genuinely uncomfortable blood curdling sections which I found quite hard to get through, but a fair few of those involved very young children and I have a 4 month old daughter so I think we can put that down to my own projections and anxieties. But that's what a good horror writer should do I guess, build on those anxieties and fears that everyone has and construct an enjoyable scary narrative from them.

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There's a fight in a corridor in ep 2 which is pretty epic. I might watch ep 3 tonight, I'm really enjoying it. Light years ahead of the awful Gotham in terms of quality.

People liking my work anniversary on LinkedIn. Stop it. It's depressing.

Done!

I always got the impression it was mostly because he's not Rangers Newcastle minded.

Just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The story is epic, brutal and horrifying but it's also fucking hard to read. Someone needs to teach that guy about correct punctuation and grammar!

I actually had that one sent round a workplace by the fucking Occupational Health department once. Followed swiftly by an apology for sending out utter bollocks.

It's not underwhelming as such, just jarring. Over time I've come to hugely admire the ending. People are still talking and speculating about it years after (though for me it's a pretty clear ending if you look at the overall context of the last season). Basically you just need to get them watched.

I miss having a dishwasher

Google suggests the holes in your spray arms might be blocked or not turning correctly (any tall plates etc. which prevents them moving freely?). You should be able to remove them to give them a clean out.

We spent all day yesterday ripping up our back garden. Now instead of a wild overgrown garden we have 4 or 5 large piles of waste sitting in the middle of the grass. Burning it isn't an option and would probably need a couple of skips to get rid of everything. At the moment we're thinking of getting a big trailer and doing shuttle runs to the recycling centre. Aside from the recycling centre, what's the easiest way to get rid of it all?

My list is pretty packed, but what's it about? At the moment my wife fucks off to bed quite early to grab some sleep before the wee one gets hungry so I've been getting through a lot of stuff. Currently watching Sons of Anarchy (just finishing S1), Daredevil, Battlestar Galactica (just finishing S1), Community, Kimmy Schmidt, Better Call Saul and rewatching Farscape. Plus outside of Netflix there's Agents of Shield improving all the time. Was watching Gotham but gave up. It feels like pre-HBO TV. If the 90s did a superhero weekly. Doesn't stack up well against modern production values.

I've never watched two and a half men but come on, the ending to HIMYM was the epitome of gash.

Such a good series (though it does have a definite dip towards the end, picking up again for the last season). I bet you hate Mandy already. Everyone hates her.

The sad thing is there'll be bands that fall for this pish.

Some of those seem a bit harsh but I don't have a problem with McNamara's inclusion. Never had a good game or looked committed to the club. Rarely has the term wage thief been more appropriately applied to a player. Out of that list I think Jerel Ifil is probably the most hard done by. A limited defender I'd say, not a terrible one and certainly not one of the worst 11 of all time if you consider the absolute toss that's worn red in the last 20 years. Who was the big striker McInnes signed in his first season (having a mental blank just now)? He's certainly the least competent footballer I've ever seen play for Aberdeen