Busy Weekend: Been Quiet But Plenty to Blog Later

On Friday afternoon :

- Drove down to Nottinghamshire and watched GPs squirming at how little they knew about musculo-skeletal injuries;
- Bit of a moment when talk of evolution sees Tarus shaking his head (despite some rather good LOL fruit fly explanations of evolution, which he understands, he is a nurtured gut creationist);
- Shocked that myself and Tarus are billeted in Tory household (parents of a rather free radical socialistic friend of mine);
- Discover that these "Tories" may be socialists taking the ninja route to success;

On Saturday morning :

- First road traffic accident for many years, minor damage to my volvo, their driver's side door mashed;
- Witness factual basis of Graham Fellowes' (aka Jilted John) track "Dancing Doctors", oh my god;
- Meet and greet Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP who starts healthy 10k for Principia-NHS Partnership but seems itchy to get away to have a long drag on a Cuban Cigar, but manages some excellent banter and soundbites in his withdrawal;
- Tarus "jogs" 10k race in record time, four minutes faster than the rest. 32:01 which is effectively a course record and ridiculously fast for a jog (the boy's best this year is 30:58, 3% better, so he may be on 97% effort, he has a proper race tomorrow, so I'm concerned);
- Guy with no legs and cheetah feet also does 10k as warm up for Comrades Marathon (56 Miles);
- Commonwealth 1500m Champ Lisa Dobriskey is here starting races and the like, then off to Poland to run for GB;
- LOL correspondent finishes tactically second to some 12-year-old in family fun run, supposed to be one mile which means I've just done a four-minute one;
- Between all this probably £10,000 at least raised for the Kenyan Orphan Project which brought us down here;
- Back to Tory house. Tour of fantastic smallholding in back garden and lots of hydroponic veg. Then lunch from the proceeds;
- Hog Roast and Ceilidh (more dancing doctors, arguably more suited to this medium);
- Back again to Tory house, still more evidence of socialism and good sense in discussions;

On Sunday:

- Escape gravitational pull of Ken "BAT" Clarke (the health run starter and tobacconist) and Patrick "Black Bastards" Mercer constituencies and head for Stoke;
- Root through bag for Tee Shirt most likely to turn heads in Stoke, choose one;
- Turn heads with tee shirt in Stoke at the "Great British Cafe" and all day actually;
- Word is that Simon Tanui, who beat Tarus at Sheffield Half, will run. And Bashir Hussein and Rob Deakin and others;
- Race started by Stoke Mayor Bagh Ali, a huge surprise considering how the chosen tee shirt is going;
- 70 minutes later Tarus wins, Rob second; Simon and Bashir did not attend;
- Very pleased with these results, best weekend ever for the Tarus/CP athlete/coach sensation;

Later the same day:

- Get home, my three dogs are overwhelmingly affectionate to see us back;
- Read Observer, their ridiculous Allergy Special could be fisked for a month, no science at all;
- Lovely walk with dogs, chat with partner about all sorts, including Diogenes (theatrical lightwieght), Deputy Leader choices (good one(s) I think), Dancing Doctors (competence wise) and of course Risk and Screening, as you do;
- Start to assemble 3-D jigsaw of my car bits crunched, collected by our hosts, looks promising;
- TV Gardening thing; marvellous shallots, cardies, marrows and minature gardens;
- Dr Who: Marvellous episode. About halfway through Tarus stops looking and pretends to read Guardian TV Guide instead, utterly scared at a rather good episode whose essenec is to not look away;
- Big Brother: obviously Lesley leaves. One of the boys they've put in may be sane but is 200% annoying former catholic, muslim convert, former het, gay convert, control freak throughout. Won't last long.

Clearly, even without any events whatsoever happening this week, LOL has some stuff to blog about. More anon, as they say.