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I offered the idea that we could meet up on Wed eves during the Commonword recess. Martin also was up for it. Hopefully loads more.
We thought Weds 12th at the Corner House on Oxford St would be nice. How's about it guys and girls?

Corner House August 12th Weds. Great it'll be.

I'm going on here about it's good to keep in reasonable nick, then there's a high-profile case of one individual getting into body-difficulties though he's fitter than a fiddle.

'You don't know who/what to believe. So as well to do nothing, drift with the crowd'.

Or you'll be saying possibly: "Great One , what is the truth? Lay it on us; tell us". My own answer is that one can without the greatest difficulty see through the APPARENT contradictions. It takes, per my own experience, a lot of study. If I could think of a quicker way I'd say it.

For much of my life I've been aware there was this culturally bang-on, near erudite piece of Theatre, Porgy and Bess. I'd better tune up my sensibilities, be on-the-button and sharp: see this, and drink from it as much as I'm able to understand.

Well I've long nurtured the idea that I'd get hold of all the big Hollywood and Broadway musicals and the like and have just a beano. Several weeks ago I bought a 20 CD set of such fare. Amongst them were the two shows headlined above.

One of the main problems with running is possibly that it's too darned simple. And it's profound what it does. And we can't do it in that we, unwittingly I suppose, make it complex complex, really complicated. I was wondering at my qualification for doing this.

It's that I want to be plain simple about it. And I've failed at it lots of times. And I see those errors being made repeatedly...

Did the indoor bit - a little of it; 5 min worth. A Start/re-start. Present job needs fitness. And talking about the difficulty of keeping up this or that aspect helps. Helps me anyway. Rekindles personal interest/ activity level

The comment about attempting too much too soon was of course bang-on. With proper guidance one doesn't do it; or is less likely to do it anyway. Ken Cooper is brilliant on that aspect of things

Did run today. Skipped the previous one. Been cycling more than normally. Around last October time I thought I didn't have as much time for this (running) so took to on-the-spot running indoors.

The boredom factor works against it. For me, saving time on this is very much false economy

Obviously I got some key essentials wrong on MJ. Should know better than to take newspapers too seriously. Word is that he's on this Relaxant and that something else.

With running one natural spinoff is an improvement to one's psychological health. Less need of medicating. Seems to be universally true.

I went out today and usually do so about every other day.

A disheartening thing for me - I've kept this up for over a year and a half now - is I see so many drop out after one go or two. They look so good as well many of them

When I decided to get blogging again, I thought to do it on Fitness rather than on writing. So I was getting some writing matters out of the way...

But megastar Jackson forced my hand. Today, the MEN front page, as with other media, is given over to his passing.

Precisely two weeks ago (June 12th) I pick up the MEN. Larger than life, a former acquaintance beams out at me. He went the identical same way as Jacko

My understanding is that someone can suffer a massive heart attack

In a review of DK's posthumously published poetry, I said that as he looked at you he did so with deeper insight than other folk. Thinking on something Pete Kalu said last evening, I realised that was a necessity for him arising out of his then situation.

Specifically what I was referring to was the style of communication from him which said: we've only just met but we're friends lets get going. There isn't (to my eyes) any reason why one can't make a snap correct decision on any new acquaintance and be right much more often than one is wrong.

Hey, Pete Kalu urged some more blog postings
I just stopped myself saying Peter. Maybe that would come across the same way as when someone who knows me by my first name insists on calling me Sir. I pull them up on pretty quickish though

So Pete said some nice things.

At a meeting tonight in Commonword a couple of writers there taked about why they write. I've been for much of my life a 'writer that didn't write' and I bragged aboout it to myself.