Month: November 2012

King’s Lynn #parkrun

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An early start this morning to attend, for the first time, King's Lynn parkrun. It was a very cold and misty morning at The Walks in King's Lynn.

Today's route was changed slightly from the normal one due to a bit of flooding across the main path, although it was still around the 5km, apparently about 60 yards shorter than the normal route. The course is roughly made up of three mile laps, all run on Tarmac, so a reasonably fast course, despite the couple of 180 deg turns. As is normal for parkruns, it was well organised, with plenty of friendly marshals and regulars.

I would love to have a closer parkrun that I could attend regularly, they are a great idea, not only do you get a good free timed 5km race, but the chance to chat to fellow runners over a coffee at the end. And as well as emailing you with your finishing details, they text you your position and time within 30 mins of finishing….

 

Origami #23 & #24

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November's Challenge keeps trundling on like a big lorry with the handbrake off on a gentle decline doing lots of trundling.

Again, two pieces of origami today. First up an owl….

Closely followed by a walrus….

If only Edward Lear had been doing origami….

The Owl and the Walrus went to sea,

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

Wrapped up in a five pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

“Oh Walrus, Walrus, get off the boat,

You're a fat f***er, take the car!”

 

 

Origami #21 & #22

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Again, due to a busy night of meeting parents at school, the amazing gift of two pieces of origami at once.

#21 is a lovely swallow…

And for contrast and just to show that origami is not just all lovely pretty stuff, #22 is a badass ninja throwing star…

Also, running in conjunction with November's Challenge of origami is, of course, Movember. Cue the slightly worrying looking fella with a dodgy moustache…..

 

Origami or Kirigami….you decide!

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Today's piece of traditional Japanese paper folding, #19, a horse, required cutting *shocked face*. I was slightly perturbed by this, to the point where I nearly scrapped the horse idea. That was until I found out, thanks to Twitter, that origami with cutting is actually called Kirigami. So I thought, what the eck, let's give it a go….

The result was a rather funky looking horse….

 

Dragon Running

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Today….#18 in the origami challenge….and one of my favourites of the month so far. A rather 'difficult' but impressive looking dragon…

This came after another very muddy run round the woods on a lovely bright, if somewhat, cold and frosty morning.

And it was very muddy….

Also, a visit to Lincoln this afternoon means I have some new socks, as I think these ones have just about had it….