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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 21h
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 8: Stinky
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 21h
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 7: Panic
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 22h
Just spent the last while listening to an old CD of Daniel Chorzempa playing Bach Organ works. Had it for about 35 years, so really familiar with his playing. Toccata & Fugue, Passacaglia & Fugue, and three Prelude & Fugues (BWV 532, 543, 552). It's amazing, like a taking a soundbath.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Boy, this makes me feel old! 🤣
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clever!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 6: Ogre
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 5: Smack
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 4: Cactus
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#inktober #inktober2026 Day 3: Miniature
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Inktober2026 Day 2: Relic
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zombies, but all bitten and turned while sat stroking a cat on their lap, so they can't move until the cat decides.
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Steve Lucas @steve-lucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Inktober 2026 is almost here. 🖤 We all know the drill: 31 days of drawing, sketching, #Inktober, #Inktober2026 Share your creations daily! starting Oct 1st! #ArtCommunity #Art #Sketch #Draw #Inktober, #Inktober2026
Inktober 2026 is almost here.

We all know the drill: 31 days of drawing, sketching, #Inktober, #Inktober2026

Share your creations daily! starting Oct 1st!

#ArtCommunity #Art #Sketch #Draw #Inktober, #Inktober2026
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's that time of year again! #inktober2026 #inktober Day 1: "Apple"
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And you!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aside from getting a PB I mean, that automatically makes a good run 🤣
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hehe yes that was me. Did you have a good run?
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yay! Good work
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah, get well soon! You clearly needed the rest, so probably for the best.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, I was like that today, barely managed to stay standing up in the funnel to get my token 😆
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cheers! HR maxed at 184, not too bad for a 50 year old. Tired legs now, got to keep moving.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Woohoo! Was going to do Bognor parkrun this morning, but chose Littlehampton instead. Was fate: they had one pacer, doing my target of 24 mins. So I went all in. New PB 24:27, and my first ever over 60% age grade! Delighted is an understatement 😁
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great speed session this morning: 5x 1km; aimed at 4:40/km with walked rests, and nailed it!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A pencil and a quill pen are useful items. So a completely shattered pencil, or a broken quill pen, perhaps.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Home from holidays, and a good 40 minute threshold run this morning to stretch the legs out. Felt great, lovely and cool, and Coros didn't change my fitness stats, so thats a plus!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last morning in Crete, fly hone this afternoon. Time for one last sunrise sea swim, and it was a beauty!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And by young I mean they are mid 20s to early 30s. Man I feel old 😆
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have had to change from asking the barber to take a couple of inches off to 5 centimetres, because they are now so young that they never learned imperial measures at school other than as a curiosity!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have been working 100% home based for more than 10 years. It was possible long before Covid, but companies were just not willing to admit it. Covid forced their hands, and now they are trying to back-pedal.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just went for a sunset dip after our trip to Spinalonga. Spent both sunrise and sunset in the sea today! Was lovely watching the earth's shadow creep up the mountainside as the sun set.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lovely sunrise 5km followed by a calm swim in the sea this morning. Already warm at 7:30!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is that all? 😉 I'd say it's a good deal!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got to love Greece. We're in Crete currently, and loving it.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 17/09/2026
wasting time should be mandatory
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The government should pull all UK funded services from the village, and put in all the red tape for them being a foreign country. Won't be too long before they want to seek asylum in the UK, once they can't get access to hospitals and it's £50 for a tin of beans on the black market.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Ee, wha's thee got in t'box, Nora?"
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I live in Wales, what are these mythical vowels of which you speak? We only have consonants here. My favourite place name to say is a short drive from here: Dwygyfylchi. (Doowuguh-vul-chi , where the 'ch' is like Scottish loch)
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That puts my VO2max at the top end of 'good' for my age, and almost into the 'excellent' bracket, which I'm happy with. It was 38 this time last year, very much 'average', so the training has worked.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That was hard work. 6x 800m at faster than race pace. Aiming at 4:40 mins/km. Ran the first rest, but had to walk the others. Last three intervals were into the wind. Coros docked some points and added a second back on my threshold time... but also increased my VO2max!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For Jazz, go for anything with Jack Teagarden or Tommy Dorsey playing and you won't be dissapointed. And don't forget Glenn Miller- he was an excellent trombonist.
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Quick and dirty sketch of Ambleside from the window of our airbnb
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You have to throw it a minimum distance then run and get it. If you throw short, you have to run and get it, then run back to where you were, and throw again. Bit of a health and safety nightmare if more than one runner at a time though. Nike would quickly develop some super light running armour.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rose Madder Dixons
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Crossing the finish line in reasonable form - the clock time is from when the train started, so take away the 6 minutes we were held back, and my official time is 25:04:46.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Was a brilliant event, great fun. Came in just behind the train, with a 25:26 5km. Got a lovely medal, and a ride on the train before going for dinner and a pint with the club. Great fun!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
St Asaph City Striders "Pace the Train" tonight: 5km (3 and a bit laps) of Marine lake, while a steam train did 3 laps. 3 groups: steadies started with the train, then 3 minutes later the mid group went, then another 3 minutes later the fast group went, all set off running by the mayor of St Asaph.
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just watch them for a while afterwards... our Smokey got very adept at pretending he'd swallowed it, only for his tongue to poke it out of the side of his mouth half an hour later! 😋
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Turns out I was actually 23rd position, but in terms of actual time I was 5th fastest with 11:56! Surprised myself there! Photographer Ben got some cracking airborne shots too- I told him before we started it's all a runner ever wants! 😆
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2.4km St Asaph City Striders handicap race this evening! Huge fun, steep uphill for 1 km, then round and zigzag back down to finish. All about the uphill pacing to leave room for the downhill sprint. I came 22nd out of about 50 of us. For the next one, our start times will be adjusted accordingly!
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ikjoyce @ikjoyce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lovely morning threshold / progression run!
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