2pm 7.8 miles in 1hr 2 mins 13 secs.
Year to date mileage 967
Month to date 16 miles
Average miles per month 107
Average weekly rate 24.6
Weather: Sunny blue skies nice breeze
Course: Ran out on the road to Horsecroft, returned over fields to Nowton Park and the returned home via Town Centre.
In the grave yard of the Abbey in Bury St Edmunds are many unusual memorial stones. The photo above is in memory of a Mr Henry Cockton (1807-1853).
He was an English humorous novelist who was born in London. He published a number of volumes, but is best known as the author of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (1840) and Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist (1844). He died at Bury St Edmunds in 1853.
I have never read anything by the author but the 1st line from Valentine Vox reads 'In one of the most ancient and populous boroughs in the county of Suffolk, there resided a genius named Valentine Vox, who, in order to make a fortune with rapidity, tried everything, but failed to succeed in anything, because he could stick long to nothing.'
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