My work colleague Tiff was driving off on the Cannonball Run 8000 yesterday, a classic car race between London and Rome over 48 hours. Sarah and I, the only ones of the team who were in the office, went to wave her off. We made banners out of Directgov flipcharts. It took about half an hour to make them and they said: Fairydust and a fond farewell...to Peter Dan and Tiffabell. (Tiff and Dan were dressed as fairies in their promotional shots, so the Peter Pan thing was not completely random.)
Sadly, when we got to Earls Court the guy at the gate said: "The cars? They've just left - you've missed them." So we went shopping at Sloane Square instead. It is all the fault of the official website - it said the start was at 11.30 but it also had a clock that was counting down to midday, so we assumed that there would be what Tiff described as "poncing around the cars" at 11.30 but the actual flag waving would be at 12. We were wrong, obviously.
It's a glorious day today and we ARE going to Kew Gardens. I know I've said this before, but today it's really happening. Going to get on a boat at Westminster as we've never been down the river in that direction.
Jules thinks I have stolen his vote. Not sure what his logic is, except that I bothered to vote and he didn't get around to it. So that's two votes for the leftist pinkos, at least in his mind. It's a good thing we have Officer Wom to keep the peace.
In other news, Claire and Iain survived the 9-day, 207km stretch of the Pennine Way, but only just. At the end, they sat outside a pub with massive glasses of rehydrating fluids and Claire repeated: "Thank God that's over. I'm so glad that's over. Thank God we're at the end." So I will cross that one off my list of possible walks - that pair are pretty staunch walkers so it's not a good sign if they found it tough.
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