How to survive hot pilates in your 50s

As years pass, lists have become an ever greater part of my life. Long lists, short lists, daily lists, weekly lists, year lists, life lists, shopping lists, what pills and potions I need to take lists, things to do before I die lists, work lists… The list goes on – but you get the idea. I keep lists on my phone, lists in my daily notebook, lists in a big leather-bound desk journal. That’s my serious list. If it goes in there it must be done, before I die. But I still haven’t

A trip to a Swedish yoga retreat provided a few surprises and some radical results A White-tailed Eagle swirls above the nearby tree-tops, a pair of Bitterns boom into the crisp morning air and I’m sure I spot a moose lumbering into woodland beyond a shimmering river. It’s 7.45am. The morning light is dazzling and I’m taking in this raw landscape while perched on all fours - or the cat position as it should be called - breathing air so pure I can taste it. At this time in the

If you think about it, as humans, homo-sapiens, apes with i-phones, evolution has predominantly, arguably, been focused on getting comfortable and safe. We invented fire to stay warm. We lived in caves then built homes with walls and roofs and central heating to stay sheltered, comfortable and safe. We invented farming, domesticated wild animals so we could have a constant supply of food to avoid hunger. We built supermarkets, invented takeaway, Deliveroo, drive-thru, microwa

The comeback has begun - slowly Forty eight minutes! That’s how long it took me to run my first 5k Park Run following heart surgery....

Decline is winning. I base that statement on the fact I’m currently recovering from major heart surgery. Didn’t see this coming! As i...

The more I break, suffer injuries, pull up lame and generally fail to achieve that much in these physical pursuits, the more I'm aware...

Two middle aged men make a pact. One of them has a heart condition, asthma, sciatic pain, ADHD, crap eyesight, mostly deaf in one ear and...

How my birth in 1970 marked the beginning of the end of the natural world It isn’t just my own decline and demise that I’m concerned...

An overnight journey on the Caledonian Sleeper train from Euston to Fort William was just the ticket tp break up a week in the office