Your mum, you’re a mum, their mum, they’re a mum, got a mum, not a mum, no mum, non-mum, gone mum… whichever, all the love to you on this day.

Here’s to the wonderful mothers in my life, with eternal gratitude; Julia and Barbara. One of each of their children pictured for reference.

A spectacularly sunny morning at #riversideparkrunchesterlestreet! I’ve made it look like I was there on my own, but there was a great crowd; thank you marshals, well done fellow parkrunners and -walkers.

When I was young, my so-called 'friends' would always throw their take-away food at me. I've still got a chip on my shoulder.

Anyone thinking of sponsoring my Cambridge Half for @parkinsons.org.uk but not got round to it yet? Now’s the time…

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

Some people were willing to accept a lower living standard for 'sovereignity'. I would accept a lower standard of living for decency. Bring on all the tariffs. Visa restrictions. It's worth it to not be complicit in killing children and civilians

Seriously though, how about we get to £500 for @parkinsonsuk today?

TWO DAYS OUT! Sponsor me today for @parkinsons.org.uk.

Hot dog. Jumping frog. Albuquerque.

Oh alright - I’ll present House of Games.

‘Sponsor my close showbiz pal Rob Deering in Sunday’s #CambridgeHalf for @parkinsons.org.uk’ - Michael J Fox. I’m paraphrasing a little bit… shorturl.at/EQ1Nr

Queen Elizabeth Park’s daffodil display is something to behold. #spring #daffodils #wordsworth

Do I get near you this month? Come and seem me if so!

148. "Trump's gamble". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The racist dialogue around Hannah Spencer is so surreal and distant from reality that it’s borderline incomprehensible. As a remainer til I die, let me hand this back: you lost, get over it.

Pinch, punch first day of… a week of me asking you for money…

As if bigotry in contemporary dialogue weren’t irritating enough, it is ALWAYS built on bullshit. I for one am not interested in listening to racism OR lies, let alone both at once, all the frickin’ time.

Please sponsor me for @parkinsons.org.uk; let’s get this ball rolling - and this man a-runnin’!

Telegraph on the SEND reforms here, playing its allotted role like a pantomime dame. I'd like them to find someone with an EHCP who fits this description. Go on.

Our wonderful @buddyraydeering is 21 today! What a thing; Bud, you’re beautiful inside and out and we love you so. Glad to know you - Happy Birthday - can’t wait to see what you do next. Game of Fives soon? (No chess - you’re too good for us) xx

I went for a run with my friend @deeringrob.bsky.social, and you can join us! Podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r... Or on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/2oVz...

Hamnet’s first award followed by who died this year? Oh my goodness, the tears; @juliadeering is still mopping up after my heartbreak. #Baftas

sexting you one handed because, you know (my cybertronic hand was damaged during blaster fire as I rescued my rebel friends from jabba the hutt’s barge)

A beautiful start to the day @ypromenad_llandrilloynrhos parkrun. Nice to see some friends there - thank you marshals - well done, fellow parkrunners and -walkers. Happy Saturday! Dydd Sadwrn Hapus!

Great Saturday so far; sun at parkrun - must fix my sunglasses - then classic movie romance at the BFI with my beloved. Happy Valentines Day to all who celebrate.

This is my favourite view of London.

Wow, Jim Ratcliffe. What’s with the billionaires and their bigotry? It just goes to show you have to be a sociopath to take that much for yourself. And then Farage is all ‘he’s got a point…’ He hasn’t. He’s got racism bolstered by lies. Despicable men.

Run for the ages yesterday: Clissold Park, Canonbury, Barnsbury, Kings Cross, Camden, Regents Park, Primrose Hill. In other words, lots and lots of lovely London (North). Here I’ve just been up the hill several times - but look how happy I am!

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

There he is:

Lovely @highburyfieldsparkrun despite the condish. Well - it stopped raining during it, so not so bad. Thank you marshals, Leftfield, Metric and Chemical Brothers. Well done fellow parkrunners and walkers. Happy Saturday!

Why does Farage get a pass? Seriously, why aren’t the press all over him for everything? He’s in the Epstein Files, he broke the ministerial code, the stuff he got up to at school would have brought anyone else down… Why does this honking, frog-faced arse get a pass?

Trump should be in prison.

when the rich Do Crimes

SNOWDROPS! I couldn’t believe it when I saw them, but there they were. Spring is on the way…

*Sings* ‘I closed my eyes / drew back the curtain / to see a curtain / it's a curtain shop’

I WISH Nigel Farage would have to resign over this, but he won’t, eh. The Farages, Trumps, Johnsons etc. of the world just don’t have to meet the same standards as most people, even most politicians. So obvious. So tiresome.

Sad to learn yesterday that Susan Vale, an unassuming, daft, extremely likeable comedian, equally at home doing a surprise end-of-set tap dance or a killer pun, died yesterday. I’d not seen her for a while but she played @xsmalarkey.com regularly back in the day. She was a very nice, kind woman.

TW: running. Let’s call it an organic progression run. (Yes, not quite, but I took time crossing two big roads in mile four)

Happy Birthday to wonderful Geena Davis - 70 today apparently!

I’d like to bend time so that a) the Trump era is long over and b) Shakespeare’s written a play about it, summing it up nicely and neatly critiquing human folly along the way.

Like running? Got Spotify? January wearing you down? My classic Running Tracks Radio Hour can help… open.spotify.com/episode/7zQd...

It’s a cold and frosty morning, but it feels like there’s a hint of spring in the air. From the sound of things, the birds agree.

'Hold me closer tiny dancer' 'I can't I'm afraid - my arms are proportionate to the rest of my tiny self' 'Fair dos'

I don’t believe Trump gets what tariffs are and how they work.

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