Updates

3 months into the new year, a few things crossed off the book, a few elcome additions and plenty more still to come. Pancake racing in Reading town centre on a damp day. Despite the MCs best efforts you could tell most of the crowd just weren't up for it and had found something only mildly more exciting than going into the Oracle. 4 people per team, 'walking' not running and 'flipping' not tossing the pancake. Time methinks that this once great country stops worrying about suing and upsetting itself and everyone else and gets back on track. Fingers crossed I can convince some guys and gals from Prosect to get a team together next year to give it a go :)
















Next onto York, home to the Yorvik Viking festival. The Yorvik centre was full booked, one year I may actually wake up and become organised but I can't see it happening anytime soon ;) What we did get to see though were the viking markets and the foreign markets selling food from a varitey of different countries. No chance of the Polish ever getting michelin stars methinks! Mine was OK but it was like something i'd knock up near the end of the month with wharever I could find. I couldn't walk away from a viking fait without buying something savage so luckily I found a funky sacrificial looking dagger. I felt a bit weird having the guy selling it to me in all the authentic looking viking gear using his phone as a credit card service. I think Erik the Red would be sickened up in Valhalla if he found out.






















Finally, all's ready for mine and dads semi epic race next Sunday. The Motor Neurone shirts are through and sponsorship is still coming. I thought 250 notes would be a good target but i've now raised this to 500 as several people have been fantastic in sponsoring and getting us to at least 220 pounds before any of the external or promised dosh comes in. Huge thanks to everyone who has and will end up sponsoring us, it's all going to the chairty who are helping out Al the Legend. Can't wait to do the run to see him there as that what's it all about. I may have no chance of running the whole thing or even half of it but i'll be crossing the line with the old git running with me no matter what i takes. I say 'semi' epic as it doesn't come close to what Al did a few months back. No idea what yet but i'm going to find something truly epic to try and match what he accomplished, away from anything else big when lots of people are after sponsors. In keeping with the spirit of the Purple Book i'm hoping whatever I come up with will be delightfully random and worthy of both an entry into the good book and the funds i'm hoping to raise for MNDA.

If you're going to be there at the race on Sunday look out for me, 10066, the tall skinny guy with his old man right at the back, cunningly power walking our way past the joggers ;) Wish us luck.

Rossifer x


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P.s. Yep that's Wales playing Ireland on the telly at Croke Park. Not your best game lads, pull your fingers out next week!