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  • Running,  Running Writing,  Writing

    The Outside Round

    It was a dark and stormy night, and, shambling through the peak district hills came a band of runners.  Denizens of Alpkit and Outside, ambassadors from kit and clothing makers.  From the doors of the shop, for many an hour…

    By Si Brown July 6, 2022
  • Running,  Running Writing,  Writing

    Run your shoe size, not your age … (pt 2)

    A work in progress.  Well, more play than work, and in several parts … This being part two, part one is here.  A Prologue  “I was quite badly injured the last half of 2016 and a good chunk of 2017,…

    By Si Brown November 17, 2021
  • Running,  Running Writing,  Writing

    Race Day

    Summer’s here, and with it comes fell racing season. All over the north bunches of enthusiasts scamper updownroundacross rough ground.  Very often on a midweek evening after work, then both days at the weekend. None of these events can work…

    By Si Brown August 19, 2021
  • Landscape Writing,  Notes Made Whilst,  Writing

    Notes Made Whilst… sauntering: 1 July 2020

    Notes made whilst sauntering: 1 July 2020. ~ a long familiar place, unvisited for decade or so ~ wind, carrying drizzle, in branches ~ grass snake swimming amidst horsetails ~ the great sickness, for a while, far away ~ half…

    By Si Brown July 29, 2021
  • Mountain Writing,  Notes Made Whilst,  Running Writing,  Writing

    Notes Made Whilst… away in memory: 11 August 2020

    Notes made whilst away in memory: 11 August 2020. ~ an old photo, January on Kinder ~ the quietness of cold fog ~ alone ~ an isolation not imposed but freely chosen ~ running easily within a moving twenty metre…

    By Si Brown July 29, 2021
  • Nature Writing,  Photography,  Writing

    After the closure

    A picture can paint a thousand words, or so the phrase says.  Perhaps so.  On a long office day, editing my back catalogue, a 5×4 slide starts talking about memories.   In 2001 my world, like many other people’s, was…

    By Si Brown November 5, 2020
  • Running,  Running Writing,  Writing

    Run your shoe size, not your age … (pt 1)

    A work in progress.  Well, more play than work, and in several parts … … this being part one.  An old piece found lurking on my Mac, an idea, … “As it’s ‘that’ time of year(surely the new year really…

    By Si Brown October 19, 2020
  • Climbing Writing,  Writing

    Playtime

    The bus has stopstarted out from Sheffield to Fox House.  The stopstarting shlep from Fox House, sweatily burdened under bouldering pads and bag full of shoes and food is finished.   Time to climb.   But maybe coffee and a teacake in this…

    By Si Brown August 18, 2020
  • Climbing Writing,  Writing

    The Grit

    “Millstone Grit; coarse-grained carboniferous sandstones – gritstone specifically refers to such rocks in the Pennine areas of Northern England – the gritstone edges and boulders of the Peak District provide one of the world’s classic climbing areas.” Yes, yes they…

    By Si Brown August 18, 2020
  • Running,  Running Writing,  Travel Writing,  Writing

    Spring: run

    A prologue, of sorts. In these interesting times, a vignette of memory from a couple of years ago. It would be wonderful to be as full of love and laughter as those two ladies who shared a good few years…

    By Si Brown April 2, 2020
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