2008 - May

[El Gordo]

I see ergonomics, Koi and lusty fruit compot on the horizon. Warm?
I do hope so.

Well, you see right-ish but there's no reason to expect you to guess the trifling tales attached to these items. (Is that a koi? It was supposed to be a shubunkin...)

Beware the urge to post 'little and often'. Although I confess to cursing and hurling a pen or pencil at my screen when there's no main page update the quality still far outweighs - and outscores - the quantity in this hallowed corner of the site. My case rests comfortably on the flabby pile of regular dull posts festering in my own diary. I once wrote (at the start of, ironically, a rather more interesting piece) 'lazy running, lazy writing'. Whilst I'd offer a robust defence of the first charge I fear I stand head-hung, shoe-scuffing guilty of the second.

I should revisit my own running mantra from time to time; less most certainly can be more

As usual you are too kind to me, and too hard on yourself. I look as enviously on your stuff as you claim to look on mine. I think a lot of it is just a difference in style -- we get used to our own, and familiarity breeds contempt... Everyone else seems more interesting than ourselves sometimes. Moyleman for instance, I know doesn't regard himself as a particularly literary type but he gives me an insight into what it is to be (by my standards) a 'good runner', and I find his stuff strangely compelling as a result. It would be unfair to go through people in turn, but suffice to say, I enjoy all of it.

And as for 'good writing', I hope people follow your example and make the occasional visit to http://roadsofstone.com/ where all sorts of fascinating writing can be had, not least of all from the Swede himself who plays an excellent supporting role to the much-missed Man With No Permissible Name.