Neither London nor Boston but internet solecisms.
Thursday 13 April 2006
Our continuing mission: to boldly drivel where no running publication has drivelled before.
Julian Baker won the Towpath 10k in Bristol, while Phil Cook decisively won the steeplechase at the Welsh Championships, and ran in the 5k the following day, and Richie Bullen was the first veteran in the 1500m, taking the Croups 40+ record in the process. He came last as well, but it was a very brave last. See the Results page.
Update and apologia: Richie broke his own record for the 1500m in the BVAF meet and came 2nd in that and the 5000m. Results as above.
Barry, Mick and Cookie (all of Mick's so-called 'A' team) scored invites to the BMC 3000m 'C' race at Leckwith. (Although Phil didn't run.) Their results can be found on the BMC site. (Not recommended if you're using Opera.)
Blood on the Tracks?Mona tried to tell me/ To stay away from the train line/ She said that all the railroad men/Just drink up your blood like wine.
You don't know how lucky you are, Headon.
Is this wistful picture of some founder member taking Stevenson's Rocket for a pilot drive? Or one of Colin Slocombe's snaps of our boys and girls Racing the Train?
Sadly no. This is Barry H Johnton at the controls of a steam train on his 50th birthday treat. Keith Velda survived the ride to bring back the pictures.
Dave Headon is a real train driver. Bob Dylan is 60.
A regular peek at the log files for this site shows an incredible concentration of hits late in the afternoon and on Mondays and Fridays. Not to mention a falling off over the weekends. Is work really that boring?
The Poole 10k trip went off reasonably successfully. We did lose a couple of people, but we got them back again. Andy Cleves finally ascended to the exalted place of being first finisher from the club in a race.
There's nothing like going abroad (in my case, to the States) to make you proud of your homeland. So why not celebrate Britishness by helping to make Nora Batty the most downloaded woman on the web?
As the index page seems to keep getting longer, I'm retiring the more frivilous parts to here. Now the Foot and Mouth thing has largely passed from the collective consciousness, Margaret Hilda, the Les Croupiers pig (below), is just a shining artefact of the past. I know that coping without her will be very hard for some. She still makes guest appearances on the BBC site (where I stole her from), and her cheery face peeks out from behind Angus Deayton on Have I got News for You.
If anyone thinks it's unnecessarily sexist to assume that a pig is a woman, I promise to call the next one Hilary after Clare Short's new deputy at International Development, who might well object to being labelled a 'Blair babe'. (Shame if you thought I'd say 'William', or 'Michael'.)
U burn if you want to: this piggy's not for burning.
Contact with this web page will not affect the spread of Foot and Mouth. This site is guaranteed 100% Foot and Mouth virus free.
We are also safe from accusations of inflating our viewing figures: we don't publish 'em. And with good reason: nobody reads this anyway.
Digital images are very welcome. If you haven't got a digital camera, ask for one next Christmas or buy one. If you can't afford to, you could always rob a bank. (Legal disclaimer.)
I've nearly given up playing with the appearance of this site: if anyone's noticed that moving a mouseover a link has resulted in a new behaviour almost every week, believe me, I'm done with that. The orangey color you get, may break with my intended four color scheme, but I think that went some time ago. I'd quite like to make paragraphs narrower, especially on wider monitors, as the lines are very long at present. (I could of course use a vertical navigation bar, like everyone else, and narrow the page, but I'd like to think that pages ARE READ TO THE END, however naïve that may be.) Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the most common browser at present, gets standards for page element width totally wrong, and I still haven't sorted out a hack which sorts this without affecting standards compliant browsers (like Opera and Mozilla/Netscape 6) adversely.
Speaking of which, I am gradually making this site safe again for Netscape 4. My fault, I forgot when I bought a new 'puter, that I had a disk with the old NN4 on it, and the appearance of this whole site has deteriorated to unreadable for some users. Fixes are coming. Some pages are fixed already; pages updated from the 4th of August will at least be accessible in NN4, if not pretty.
Last updated 13 April 2006
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