Legendary

Saturday’s parkrun at Forest Rec is on an amended course due to the Goose Fair. They send us twice up the hill, which is nice of them. It’s more like the old course, which also had two ascents of the hill but via an easier route! We go to café afterwards where the coffee is very very slow to arrive and we also find out they no longer do breakfast cobs. 

While there we talk with a chap from Redhill club who is still running in his 80s. He fondly recalls some cracking times he was still running in his 60s which are faster than anything I’ve done ever.

Talking of oldies. It is also my Dad’s 96^th birthday. I go over to listen to the match on the radio with him and then bring him over for a night in the Plough. L fortifies us first with her legendary cottage pie.

The Plough has a beer called ‘Wot No Cheyz’, an oatcake stout from Front Row Brewery in Stoke, which is very nice.

My Dad stays over and then we take him to the Wollaton for breakfast and then up to a 1940s Military Day at Newstead Abbey. Sadly the fact we’ve had some heavy rain means there’s little on display but my Dad has a good time and a great weekend.

(Sunday 22^nd September)