My silence has been honey-laden-recovery. The final hospital visit was last week and the GP visit on Wednesday. The dressing was removed. I had an extra Christmas! Nurse Mercy taking off the dressing was like unwrapping a present – I won’t show you photos because it is still not a great look. Thanking Mercy, I have donated to Cancer Research. The toe that she revealed, showed 6 weeks of recovery from frostbite and a lost toenail (it came off somewhere in the marshes between C

Short report: Liz Coates has reported here about the dramatic pictures showing the scale of erosion at Winterton, which I ran past last month in Stretch 2 and 3 (here and here). (image copyright: simon carter in EDP) I had written about the coastal erosion – I didn’t realise it was SO edgy. I have had two hospital visits in the last week, with the next tomorrow. I am back on a crutch and in pain when walking, but the antibiotics worked. My toe should survive, as recovery con

Good news! After the epic stretch 5, reported here. #CoastlineRunner mission resume! S6 – Stretch 6 – Snettisham to Kings Lynn Station I have been to the GP today and had my toe looked at and redressed – the antibiotics are working and recovery is ongoing and healthy. I have shed my crutch. Thank you A and E and Urgent Care Unit for prescribing me antibiotics for my “looking a bit necrotic toe” they are working their magic, and I am now firmly out of the dark place I was in a

Stretch 5 (S5) of The Coastline Runner’s (#coastlinerunner) mission - to run as much as possible of the British Isles’ coastline, from the 1st November 2021 until 9th October 2022- Link here ‘LH’. Monday’s 5th coastline run was the most epic of all so far; it involved running and swimming 31 km across sandbanks, shingle, marsh and mudflats. ● Previous stretch -S4- (link here 'LH') was 19 km ● Mission running total so far: 104 km Epic, but here was one big negat

Running on the edge of the shingle shoreline - S4. S4 was 19 km Previous stretch -S3- (link here 'LH') was 20 km Mission running total so far: 73 km reminder - the Coastline Runner’s (#coastlinerunner) mission is to run as much as he can (Footnote 1) of the British Isles’ coastline from the 1st November 2021 until 9th October 2022 LH Short thought, and then the short report: Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, said that post-COP 26 the aim is to “build a fina

( Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World) Short report of Stretch 3 of The Coastline Runner’s First Mission My mission is to run as much as I can [i footnote] of the British Isles’ coastline, collecting plastic trash, analysing local authorities’ waste schemes and calculating CO2e emissions. I will do this from the 1st November 2021 until 9th October 2022: The next Royal Parks Half Marathon in London. (link here 'LH') The Coastline Runner

1. Stretch 1 of the #CoastlineRunner’s First Mission ('S1M1' reminder: it is to run as much as he can [i] of the British Isles’ coastline) starting on the 1st November 2021 until 9th October, 2022: the next Royal Parks Half Marathon in London. a. start: Yarmouth b. finish: Hemsby c. distance: 13.94 km d. how arrived: