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Official time from the Paris Marathon organisers…
My Garmin did a good job… 4:59:41, confirmed on the Paris Marathon website this evening. Just sneeked in under the 5:00 hour barrier, then. Which means I came 26245th out of 28844! There were an awful lot of people in front, but at least there were over two and a half thousand behind me!
A right Royal afternoon
It’s not often that you get visited by a member of the British Royal family. Today, however, we were visited by three. HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Earl of Wessex came to reopen Award House, home of The Duke Of Edinburgh’s International Award. And, apparently for the first time,…
Top ten sweets
I turned 50 this week. Inevitably, I got a bit mushy and nostalgic with a few friends and, as usual with a group of people of my age, the conversation led to discussions about children’s television (it was better in the seventies) and the sweets we used to eat, bought with the pocket money…
