faithful supporters
i was pleased to see some old friends had come to watch the marathon to spur me on
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gloves and stuff
i saw hundreds and hundreds of gloves whilst i was doing the london marathon, but i decided early on there was no point trying to get photos as i couldn’t keep up with them without stopping (and causing trouble for those behind me).
but if you ever want a new jumper, gloves, hat or even a bum bag, then it’s worth following a marathon course. it’s full of discarded cardies.
here is a typical glove
banana madness
bananas seem to be the fruit of choice for marathon runners. this bin near the start was bulging with old skins
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i did it !
i did it. official time was 6:12 which i was quite pleased with.
i think i had around 15 minutes of ‘stoppages’ including waiting 5 -10 minutes for a potty kid to get me a plaster in the first aid section, and having to leave the course to buy a bottle of water from a local shop when they ran out of the free stuff (because i was so far behind at the start). then there was the mid-marathon toilet queue which was a few more minutes …
my knees were fine (hoorah for the power of prayer) but my feet no longer look like they did this morning !
i took around 170 photos so expect plenty more marathon photos and stories over the next few days.
but for now, here’s a self portrait somewhere around the 18 mile mark (around the time of my medical pitstop – the grin hides the pain)
thanks everyone for your generous sponsoring – it really kept me going !
no parking please
just look at the amount of effort which has gone in to creating this sign !
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kings lynn busker
this chap was busking on the streets of kings lynn a few days back. his guitar didn’t have many strings and the ones it did weren’t in tune. luckily he wasn’t singing.
i can see myself taking this kind of role in years to come.
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pentecost
my brother=in-law kev works for a church in nottingham and often sends me pictures of gloves.
here he is (with baby sarah) showing his holy credentials in a pentecostal manner (despite being anglican).
christianity real is quite an amazing faith. God, who invented everything became an actual person for the sake of us humans. he was killed by us, to take the blame for the bad stuff we all do all the time. and after all that he even sent his holy spirit so we can experience him and be more like him before our time on earth is over.
how cool is that ?
tesco cola on railings and a bollard
it’s a double category – cola on railings and bollard. what is stranger is that the tesco cola is unopened.
the big day
i’m writing this at 5.30am on race day just before leaving to get my train to london. see you later !
jigsaw
the ‘holiday jiggy’ is a family tradition.
here are my wife, her sister and their mother doing a jigsaw on holiday.
the finished article:
a training walk
on holiday i did lots of training walks for today’s marathon. one morning it was so windy (and cold and rainy) i nearly got blown off this sea wall in to the slimey bog to the left.
whatever the weather does today i suspect it won’t be as bad as that morning !
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sorry ! pets must stay outside
look how upset this dog is. it really breaks my heart to look at him.
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king of the castle
this is one of my favourite pictures from our recent holiday.
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2 years of this
as the blog turns two it’s good to think of those who have to suffer so you can have a regular service. the main person who suffers is my lovely wife jane.
so, to thank her i’ve decided to use my This Is Pointless sign to introduce an interactive category and this is how it will work.
create and print off your own ‘this is pointless’ sign. cut it out and take a photo of someone holding it with a neutral facial expression in an appropriate location.
when you’ve got a nice one, email it to blog@funkypancake.com and if it’s fit for purpose i’ll plop it on the blog
here are a couple to get you going
my lovely wife thinking about the blog:
my brother-in-law doing the holiday washing up:
it’s a rag bag of blog readers
so what birthday greetings did you send the funkypancake blog (in the very short notice i gave you) ?
Rascale and unique eric, and a spider man burglar sent by clive and heather
princess carmen and maxx and brother edd
and cousin mike and catherine:
stuffed cats
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a dangerous parish
i was very frightened when i saw this sign. it tells us that shooting happens around here for the sake of ‘conservation’ (perhaps a reference to taxidermy).
but the thing that really worried me was the big black square by the words ‘affiliated to’. does that mean they got struck off by whoever they were affiliated to for reckless shootery ? or is ‘the black square’ some kind of fascist gun club ?
either way, things don’t look good.
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