After writing a review of the Tewkesbury parkrun I went to last weekend, it seemed only right that I write something about my “home” parkrun, which is Cheltenham. Cheltenham parkrun has two variations – in the winter it’s a 4-lap course ran entirely on tarmac paths around the large lake in Pittville Park, which is…
parkrun tourism: Tewkesbury
One of my goals this year is to go and check out more different parkrun courses. There are over 1,000 in the UK, and plenty within an hour’s drive of where I live – anything more than an hour feels like a bit much for a 5k run, though I could probably be persuaded to…
A tour of the allotment
I’ve started this blog with the idea that much of the content will be about what I’m up to on my allotment – so I thought I’d do a bit of an overview of it right now, to introduce it a bit. I’ve got a very simple rectangular plot in the middle of lots of…
Batsford Blooms
Last year, in a raffle, we won a family pass to Batsford Arboretum, a beautiful tree-filled garden about half an hour away from our house. We’ve been before, in Autumn, and loved the beautiful colours of the leaves, but we knew that there were a lot of flowering trees, so decided we would use the…
The Actual Purple Shed
Why did I call this blog “the purple shed”? I was struggling to think of a name for this new project – a name that I liked and didn’t sound ridiculous, but that was also unique, and that I could register a domain for, and, when I’m finished tweaking the layout, change my social media…
Hello world!
Well, hello! I’ve started a blog. This feels a very un-2024 thing to do – I can’t remember the last time I heard about someone having a blog. I think everyone is making tiktok videos these days. But I would rather write things down! I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while; I’m getting…