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ILPC Glasgow (11-17 April 2023)
I finally got up to Glasgow, it’s been on the list for decades but there’s fierce competition for time and resources. Over the course of life though, the right moment and reason eventually emerges and this was the case: the International Labour Process Conference was hosted by Strathclyde University in 2023. I therefore spent a…
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Getting about Spring 2023
I’ve never really had much of a fixed pattern, I go through phases where I rarely leave the house and others where I’m rarely there. Spring 2023 has been a period of getting around for various reasons. Here’s pics from a few of my stops including King’s Lynn, Oxford, Bedford and Bewdley (also Glasgow and…
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Christmas weather (in March)
Always better late than never. Proper snow has been rare in central England in the last few years. Here’s a few pics from the only exception of the 22-23 winter season. It only lasted 24 hours sadly, if even that. Gave me one beautiful arrival at work though.
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Hats
Never something I’ve been especially interested in but I have always appreciated a good hat, albeit from afar. As is typically of me, I tend not to like the popular varieties (eg., baseball caps and beanies), preferring fedoras, cow boy hats, trilbies and panamas. I’ve received two additions to my fledgling collection and have two…
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Long in the works
Over the course of a month (which speaks to how slow moving and bureaucratic my life is) I have purchased, picked up, figured out and attached roof bars and a bike rack to my car. I love active breaks: biking, trekking, kayaking (note: I have owned my own kayak for 2 years and have not…
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Sibelius, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and a world premier of a contemporary composer
One of the best things about classical music concerts is that the star attraction is often upstaged by someone that you’re less familiar with. I attended to see Sibelius symphony 5 performed live. It was astonishing, and yet it was given a run for it’s money by two other performances on the schedule: the world…
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WORKOUT #10 (2023)
It took until the second month of the year to get 10 workouts in. It was cut a little short, I only got in 7 sets due to time constraints. Form was inconsistent, I was strong on press-ups and weak on pec flies. The road to greatness is no straight line. Clips as ever:
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Birthday number forty something: a treat or two
It’s good to look back on a solid year of progress between birthdays. In 2020 I took a big step backwards, my health and quality of life declining greatly. The situation was bad in itself and the time and effort required to escape it only made things worse. I’m now in better shape than I…
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WORKOUT #9 (2023)
I’m on a late surge to make it to ten workouts in January. I was crippled with back pain last week so I’ve stalled at eight. Ten workouts in January means squeezing one in tomorrow, which isn’t looking easy or likely. Oh well, there’s been plenty of months where I have not managed a single…
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WORKOUT #8 (2023)
I paid a high price for this workout, my back spasmed (at least 9 out of 10 on the pain spectrum) on the very first set. Squat thrusts are meant to be my calorie burning warm up not the exercise that breaks the camel’s (well, man’s) back before he even gets going! It was freezing…
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Dr Martin James 