Today I was supposed to be running the Great North-West half marathon. However, with my dodgy inflamed tendon and random hip pains I decided it probably wasn’t sensible. In fact, yesterday, after doing 5k at Barrow Park Run and having…
Sunday Poem – Michael Conley
While a lot of the country has been covered in snow, Barrow has been basking in winter sunshine. We have had two days where the sky is that crisp kind of blue you only get when it is cold, which…
Sunday Poem – Roz Goddard
I am so relieved this week is over. It has been filled with the misery of the annual tax return. I think I’ve spent about three full days on it. Every year at this time I make a resolution to…
Sunday Poem – John Foggin
This week has been a strange one – in some ways it feels like the laziest Christmas/New Year period I’ve had for a long time. The husband has post-viral fatigue syndrome – which I had a couple of years ago…
Sunday Poem – Louise Karlsen
Evening all! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas, what ever you were doing. I spent the first half of this week finishing off shopping for Christmas presents. Normally I’m still buying them on Christmas Eve but this year…
Sunday Poem – Andrew Forster
This is the first blog post I am writing from my lovely new/old desk which I bought in a charity shop last week for £60. It apparently came from a school. I quite liked it when I bought it but…
Sunday Poem – Myra Schneider
Evening all – I’m writing this feeling very sorry for myself. I started writing it about 5.30 in a burst of enthusiasm and determination not to be up till all hours finishing it off, but I went upstairs to get…
Sunday Poem – Rebecca Gethin
Evening all – you may all be relieved to know that I’m in a much better mood than I was last Sunday and am predicting that there will be no moaning in this blog post, or hardly any moaning anyway! …
Sunday Poem – Liz Berry
Evening all. Yes, yet again, it’s not Sunday. I’ve been away all weekend at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival – it was amazing but there was no internet in the cottage where we were staying, and I got back to Barrow at…
Sunday Poem – Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Afternoon all! Seems strange to be starting writing this in daylight but I’m parked on the sofa for the rest of Sunday now. In fact I’m feeling so lazy I can’t even be bothered to go and get anything to…