I have found a friend to run with, similar pace, great enthusiasm...I think I'm going to fly this year!
MRC application in...hopefully today if all admin peeps do their bit. Keep fingers crossed for  a few months now.

Happy New Year! 2013 - Our fourth year in Nottingham. We returned to the US over the Christmas break, a few days in Colorado and then a road trip back to Seattle. We drove through ice and snow, we were attacked by a bull on the Interstate...it was an adventure, even I was scared at times.
Seattle was great. Good friends, old places, Cascade concrete on Crystal Mountain, happy times. We all miss the Pacific North West.
No grant application for the 9th, jet-lag and an inability to crystalise our thoughts...soon though.

The River Trent just about to burst it's banks at Beeston Lock. Fantastic 16 mile LSD run yesterday, getting ready for the Keyworth Turkey Trot. I love running out by the river - magic! soggy right foot in the last couple of miles. The river had seeped across the path in the time it had taken me to run out and back. Battled my way past through the brambles. Speaking of soggy feet, here is my (same) foot during a hike in the Derbyshire Peak District last month.

eeewww!

when does MY future begin?

Just waiting for a decision from the BBSRC, will they fund our project to model intracellular organelle dynamics. It's such a very cool project. I know in my heart that it won't get funded, it seems I am not 'favoured' in those circles.Another idea given away, allowed to fester for the best part of a year. No matter, pick myself up, dust it off and continue.

Keith Campbell - creator of Dolly

Food

Hmmm...too late for a photo, all eaten up. Barley risotto with onions and garlic, thin slices of top rump steak and some steamed curly kale. Tasted very good, steak was from Harker's farm shop at Blackberry farm, Clipston on the Wolds. All the beef they sell is reared there and looked after extremely well. I can't buy meat from anywhere else these days.

Robin Hood Half Marathon last Sunday. I PB'd by two minutes without training as much as I have in the past. The race was flat but I wonder if that was it? Maybe I am now going to get faster until I am in the qualification zone for the geriatric Olympics at the ripe old age of ninety. The new course started at the War Memorial. I love this race, it's less than a ten minute walk from the house and the new date late in September is just perfect (in case training went awry in the summer holidays).