Paddock Wood half-marathon

Jon entered the Paddock Wood half-marathon for the 2nd year hoping to get a PB as he ran last year with an injured leg.  After playing football Friday evening he ran this year - with an injured leg!

Also, the weather couldn't have been more different from 2014, it was wet and VERY windy.

Still, Jon ran the 13 miles in 2 hours and 15 minutes.  A PB - taking around 5 minutes off last year's time.  Well done :-)

And in other sporting news: Chris ran her 50th Park Run on Saturday. Whoop whoop.

Cameron's off to Greece

Cam left from school on Friday, 27th March to travel by coach to Heathrow, with a VERY big bag of snacks!   The flight was BA634 which departed at 19:00 arriving at Sparta airport at 00:30!

The itinerary is:-

Saturday - visit to Delphi followed by a trip to Olympia for the night
Sunday - site visit to Olympia and then travel to Tolo
Monday - excursion to Mycenae and Epidavros with an afternoon of leisure.
Tuesday - excursions to Tiryns, Corinth and AcroCorinth then onto Athens for the night
Wednesday - a day of leisure in Athens visiting Agora, Constitution Sqaure, Acropolis and Acropolis Museum.
Thursday - visit to Trireme and HMS Averof before travelling back to Sparta airport for the flight home.  BA 633 to Heathrow leaving at 19:30 and arriving back 21:15 local time.

Looking forward to picking Cam up from school and hearing all about the trip. Apparently he's taken lots of photos :-)

New kitchen

Our new kitchen has been fitted :-)

Auntie Pat's 60th birthday meal

Auntie Pat is 60 this year and is going to celebrate with Disney World as it's 60 years since it opened in California.  Today Grandad and Auntie Pat treated the whole family, us, Jo and Diccon, Lol and Emma and Gareth and Naomi, to a gorgeous meal at the Vineyard restaurant inWrotham Heath.  Really lovely food, great service from some waiters with a lovely sense of humour.  Jon " does the steak come with chips?" Waiter "it usually comes with sautee potatoes but there is a chippy nearby I can get you chips, they will want to know if you want salt and vinegar!"   Jon got chips with is steak!

Cameron and Clara had an evening of films with Dominoes pizza, chicken strips and garlic bread.

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary -13 years.  Traditional gift would be lace - or a nice cup of tea and breakfast in bed :-)

Junior takeover at Maidstone parkrun's 100th

Maidstone parkrun's 100th run today and all the volunteer roles were taken by juniors. What an amazing job they did. 

Cam did the run briefing and was then timing the finishers, Clara was giving out the finish tokens.

in all there were 293 runners, 39 first timers and 69 PB's, well done everyone. 

Centreparcs - skiing day

Skiing before our lesson, the lesson and skiing after the lesson. Dad, Cam and Clara left for a swim before lunch.  Met back at the apartment for lunch before more skiing, supper and a final,ski before bed.

Lots of aching legs and it felt like we still had the ski boots on when they weren't.  Great fun though and we are definitely getting good at this, we are really enjoying it too. Definitely want to go skiing proper for holiday next year.

Cam and dad were having a go at parallel skiing and stopping, Cam had a go at a few jumps - got some air-time.

Ended the day with live Eastenders to find out that Bobbie killed Lucy.

Last day tomorrow :-(

Centreparcs - day 3

More skiing, we're definitely getting better, turning and stopping almost when we wanted to!

Cam and Clara had a go at high ropes today. Cam thought it was better than he had imagined it would be, Clara didn't enjoy it but was glad she'd done it.

After high ropes we had a game of badminton which was tiring!


We had a 'takeaway' pizza for tea this evening - after Clara and Mum cycled to reception to find out how to order it and then ordered it from pizza and pasta restaurant we had cycled past! Dad met us with a bag to help carry it home. It tasted good. Nom nom.