Started reading: Status and Culture by W. David Marx 📚

Banh mi and a sunshine view of the castle

Getting the most out of our zoo pass with a wee fathers day trip. Highlight was some baby tamarins.

Currently reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚

📸 zoo day, and first bus trip for the boy! We had fun watching the crowds on their way to Taylor Swift, plus seeing this lovely blue frog.

Zoo day to see the penguin chicks 📸

New marathon pb: 4:31:07 - I had far fewer long runs to train this year. I think this helped, as I was much stricter with keeping to pace in the first 10km, rather than being swept along by the crowd. Legs cramped up in the last two km, but overall it was an enjoyable race.

Zoo day 🐧

Went to cheer on the EMF 10km runners this morning, including Allan doing his first ever run!

A lazy afternoon walking at the Botanic Gardens 📸

A hot and sunny day for ParkRun with the boy

Was out in Holyrood Park last night to see the Northern Lights. Pinks and patterns to the naked eye, and long exposures picked up a lot more greens too. What a treat!

30km training run on the roads and tracks around Kirkcudbright. Lots of bluebells out.

Making a habit of ParkRun with the boy. Beautiful sun today. Extended with a jog around the Meadows.

Tried out the new Mara’s Picklery in Marchmont. Cheese toastie with chili jam, sweet potato toastie, and a blood orange and anchovy salad. Service was a bit slow, but food was great! Worth a look.

A walk at Carstramon Wood 📸

New journal post: Balcary Bay

spring flowers 📸

Enjoyed this post: “Use your potions and scrolls”.

Resources, whether in games or in life, are meant to be utilized. Hoarding them out of fear of depletion prevents us from discovering new opportunities and connections. That’s a scarcity mindset that we don’t need to employ. Life thrives not on conservation but on strategic and bold usage of what we do have.

A wee bookshop treat for the boy who knows how to yell “Shark!” when he sees a Shark in the Park book.

Ran up Blackford Hill this morning, beautiful in the early light

11km to ParkRun and back. Ran into Joe for the first time in at least five years!

Just posted a Call for Speakers video for both GlasgowJS and EdinburghJS Community Showcase nights in May.

First time trying a slope like this

Evening at The Climbing Hanger with Daniel.