Good Friday Cross 2026
This year’s Good Friday was our first at Stonesthrow, due to last year’s vacating for the building work. This year has been all about cutting our own firewood for use next year, and as such, I have spent a lot…
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Good Friday Cross 2025
This year signifies a fairly significant building project at Stonesthrow. We’ve gutted the old bathroom and embarked on a complete overhaul of the whole areas, swapping the bathroom with the W.C. and utilising the space a bit better and installing…
new life : Life changing
Vicky and I welcomed into the world Donovan Patrick Flanagan Ingham this morning just after 11 o’clock. He’s healthy and happy and all that we could have hoped for. For those that know, you’ll know the journey we went on…
Good Friday Cross 2024
A bit of a shift in focus this year, using digital mediums and screen recording the process of creating artworks.
Good Friday Cross 2023
Here’s my created cross for this year. I’m going to building on this concept with my photography over the next year or so, once my creativity leads me down that path. I’ve got the concept, but now just the motivation…
Good Friday Cross 2022
This year, having begun to get back into painting, it seemed only fitting that the cross I created on Good Friday was such. Inspiration from Hotere’s Black Window series, the red cross coated in the blood of Christ, the black…
Good Friday Cross 2021
Each year since 2001 I have built, created, drawn, constructed, carved, photographed and even weaved a cross to remember Good Friday on.This is this year’s Good Friday Cross. It was a bit of a massive project. After coming up with…
The Fall to Reality: The struggles of going medication free
At the end of last year I announced, with much joy, that I was officially medication free. It is something I’ve been working towards and thought I had finally made it.Unfortunately, no matter how much I have tried this year,…
You Matter: Going Medication Free
This year has been a challenge for everyone, and I’m sure many are happy to see the back of it.For me, it has been a year where I haven’t stopped. It has been hard, unrelenting, and full of change.Over the…
Good Friday Cross 2020
Here is the Good Friday Cross for 2020. We are currently in the middle of a lockdown due to the Covid-19 virus. However, continuing with the theme for this year, running is becoming more and more important to me, both…
Wellington Round the Bays – 2020
In November I saw a small ad on Facebook for a purple shirt saying “I’m Sweating for Mental Health”. Given that I (quite literally sometimes) have been doing that since 2012, I wanted one. Raise $200 and enter into the…
Training Complete
A short 10 minute jaunt after paying a visit to Mitre 10 later, and I’ve completed my training plan for the 10km run that sets off tomorrow morning.Since November 17, I’ve run a total of 122.98km.That’s almost 3 marathons across…
Biggest Training Run Yet
It’s 8:40 on Sunday morning. This Sunday, I face my biggest challenge yet.The training run today is set for 60 minutes.One hour.This is a big deal for me, because this time last year, there was no conceivable way that I…
Injury
Hi all,A quick update on the training for you.Unfortunately it’s not good news.On Thursday, in unrelated physical activity (Indoor Cricket) my back gave out and I was rendered cripple for the weekend. This comes at a bad time, with this…
Woah! We’re Half-way there.
So today marked a pretty big milestone in my training.Centred around big runs on Sunday, I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while.It was a 35 minute run – something which has been more than a little daunting…
Longest Run
I’m back! I’ve still been running my training runs as per the plan, just that I haven’t had the time to write about each of them.Today however, I reached a personal milestone. It really put my struggle in perspective. Today…
Sunday Run
The rain set in for a good part of the afternoon, but seemed to clear a little after 5:30 which I took the opportunity to sneak my run in. 20minutes non stop jogging.Vicky came as well, but only walked, as…
Friday Evening Training Run
The first of what I suspect will be many evening training runs. Purely and simply, it was too hot during the day and I had an after-work function. So it was easier just to run later than I normally do.Seemed…
Training Run and Weight
So, I’ve decided to track a few things on my way to the goal.One of them is the pace I’m running at, and making sure that it is manageable for the long distance run of 10km.The second is my weight,…
Latest Training Run
My second Sunday run went well – a 15 minute session non-stop jogging where I have to be careful not to wear myself out early on!As I found out in the session’s split timings, I actually got faster over the…