I finished the British 10K!

I ran the British 10K run last Sunday for Rainbow Trust who are a charity that provides practical and emotional support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. See Rainbow Trust

I raised £660 :) See my sponsorship page

I decided I would do it about 6 weeks previous and thought with plenty of training that it would be ok once I did maybe 3 runs a week. I only ever managed at most 2 runs a week, which were long enough, but didn't think I was fully prepared. A run with Dad while I was home gave me some confidence and I managed to cross the finish line in 1 hour 10 minutes! Delighted with it but also delighted that it is now over! :) It was very tough.



Some photos of the run and my supporters - Jim, Angela and Nell!

"I've cut myself quite badly!"

On a lovely summer's Sunday afternoon, Laura invited both of us over for an hour or two to have a drink and chat. Very civilised! She insisted on making us something to eat which we told her not to bother but she did insist!

We made our way to Fulham Palace road to get the bus down to Earlsfield. As we waited in the bus shelter, we got a phone call from a slightly frazzled Laura... "I've cut myself quite badly!" We told her we would be there ASAP!

We were greeted by a now-composed Laura with her fingers wrapped in a tea towel. We went in to the scene of the crime where two more blood drenched tea towels were on the counter and the culprit device - the hand blender!


You see Laura was trying to make lamb burgers and stuck her fingers in the double-action blade to clean it out and accidently turned it on!! I left James to the diagnosis of the injury and with the help of the NHS nurse on the phone we decided to wait and see would it stop bleeding by applying pressure. 20 minutes later it was not stopping so we decided to make the trip to the St. George's Hostpital A&E in Tooting.

Turned out not as bad an experience as expected and I actually became Laura's next of kin - very honoured! Laura went in about 10 minutes after we got there and after a local anesthetic and 4 stitches and a lot of weirdos in the waiting area, we were out and all after an hour and a half.

We decided to get some dinner after and to keep Laura out of the kitchen! James even got a lamb burger to mark the occasion! :)

Laura knew after all the panic had died down that she would definitely get a mention on the blog. Some might say she did it deliberately! I'm not pointing any fingers... pardon the pun :)

Visit to Wimbledon

We managed to get a spot of tennis in after work on a beautiful sunny afternoon. It was great to get a chance to visit Wimbledon, especially with no queue! We breezed in with no worries and paid our £12 for entry to the grounds.

As it was the second week, there weren't too many matches still on when we got there, other than some juniors, veterans, and some doubles on the show courts. We wandered around soaking up the atmosphere and eventually spotted Pat Cash on Court 3.

He was playing with local 'favourite' Chris Wilkinson against Richard Krajicek and Jacob Eltingh. Krajicek isn't that long retired and is a former singles champion here, and still has the boom-boom serve. Still though, despite it being 20 odd years since Cash won, he was comfortably the classiest player on show. It wasn't enough however and despite Pat's attempts to convince Krajicek to let them take it to a deciding set, a humourless Krajicek served out to win. And that was that!

It was still great to sample the atmosphere, and see Henman Hill, and all that jazz. We resolved to definitely make the effort to get there next year in the first week, even if it involves the overnight queueing!

Here are a few photos from the evening...