Parque de El Retiro
Following on from my last post with it's nature-inspired musical compositions, I thought i'd follow up with the blissful day we spent meandering through Parque de El Retiro in central Madrid last weekend.
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Pride & Joy: A Wizard of Earthsea
It won't have escaped your notice that i'm trying to breathe new life into my blog these days. I'm midway through a big clear out and reshuffle; fixing up the old teenage angst and - dare I say it - consigning the drivel to the trash. I'm trying to ensure my posts head in a clearer direction rather than rambling on like they did back in the day.
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London2Cambridge 100km Ultra Challenge
It's a distant, painful memory now but I completed the #London2Cambridge 100km Ultra Challenge over the weekend of Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th August. I'm fully recovered now so it's time I wrote it up on the blog, though I did post elsewhere on social media at the time.
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The Ruling Class - James McAvoy
If i'm honest, I hadn’t to date seen enough of James McAvoy’s work to fully appreciate his range as an actor.
I loved him in X-Men: First Class - but then the X-Men movies haven’t disappointed yet - and as the Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. That said, I haven’t yet seen The Last King of Scotland, which earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor, nor Atonement, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and his second BAFTA nomination for Best Leading Actor.
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Eyes Peeled
The latest addition to my teeny tiny comic collection is Eyes Peeled by Grace Wilson.
Eyes Peeled is a 2013-2014 series of observational comics and drawings which span two continents and three cities - Edinburgh, London and Stockholm - with a couple of other exotic excursions in between.
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