Yesterday was the JLGB London Sports Day held at Lee Valley Athletics Centre. After last year, when it was rained off as it was outside, the decision was taken to hold it indoors. As it turned out, the weather was fine but it was nice to use a nearly brand new facility.
There were three track events, the 60m, 200m and 400m and three field events, the long jump, high jump and Shot put. Boys and girls competed seperately and they were three age categories - 11 &12 year olds, 13 & 14 Year olds and over 14s.
As a company taking under 10 children we did extremely well. The boys won or came second in nearly all their events and the girls did well with a few wins and high places (we had twice as many boys as girls attending).
Monday, 21 May 2007
Thursday, 17 May 2007
Television filming
Went to the Filming of Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon on Tuesday. This week it was Bullseye so as well as the "celebrities" - Andrea Catherwood, Michael Le Vell and Graeme Le Saux, it also featured - Raymond "Barney" von Barneveld, Martin "Wolfie" Adams and Phil "The Power" Taylor. As a fan of darts I enjoyed it.
However, I did find the warm-up act extremely amusing. I went with Danny and as he got there early we got in, just behind us the queue was sent home - standard for show filming (i.e. more tickets are given out than there are seats).
However, I did find the warm-up act extremely amusing. I went with Danny and as he got there early we got in, just behind us the queue was sent home - standard for show filming (i.e. more tickets are given out than there are seats).
Saturday, 12 May 2007
Photos
Photos from my weekend away can be viewed by clicking here. (NOW UPDATED)
All of the Photos are of Lincoln, mainly because we spent more time there and it's a far more interesting place than Newark.
I'm going to apologise that there's none of me, I'm a bit of a camera-phobe and much prefer to take pictures rather than have pictures taken of me.
All of the Photos are of Lincoln, mainly because we spent more time there and it's a far more interesting place than Newark.
I'm going to apologise that there's none of me, I'm a bit of a camera-phobe and much prefer to take pictures rather than have pictures taken of me.
Wednesday, 9 May 2007
Been away
Due to the long weekend I've just got back from a weekend trip.
Went to a village named Fiskerton near Newark, Nottinghamshire.
We stayed in a four bedroom residence named the Dovecote on the very edge of Fiskerton Village, based on Lodge farm there are three different residences, all of which are converted barns.
The group I went with are a group I've spent a long weekend with every year for the last six year (including this year). We try to go to a different place every year and in our first two years we went canal boating.
I know these people through Brigade as we are (or were) all involved at one point or another (five out of six of us are still involved).
I was picked up from Nottingham Station by the two people who were coming from Nottingham and we went straight to Fiskerton. We then decided to walk to the village shop, big mistake! Whilst it is possible to walk to the Village shop and it's not a long way, there's no walkway between the road we were on and into the Village, the road's fairly busy as well so it wasn't exactly a pleasant walk.
On the Saturday we went into Central Newark for the market, we returned to the Dovecote in the early afternoon and spent a fairly leisurely afternoon reading the papers and watching the Snooker. This was unusual, in previous years we've spent the whole day out only returning in the late afternoon or early evening.
On the Sunday we went in to Lincoln for the Cathedral and Castle, very interesting and took a walking guided tour of the city. Very old city, some remains of the Roman town and still some Norman houses remaining (and they're still in use).
I did take photos, but don't have the photos to hand, will add when I've downloaded them.
After going back to the Dovecote we later went out for a Pub Quiz at the local.
On Monday morning rather than going straight back as we normally do, we went to the local sports pavilion and fields as there was an event on which we'd read about earlier on the weekend. We ended up playing bowls and watching the dance display. I finally got back to my flat in London about 7.00 p.m.
Went to a village named Fiskerton near Newark, Nottinghamshire.
We stayed in a four bedroom residence named the Dovecote on the very edge of Fiskerton Village, based on Lodge farm there are three different residences, all of which are converted barns.
The group I went with are a group I've spent a long weekend with every year for the last six year (including this year). We try to go to a different place every year and in our first two years we went canal boating.
I know these people through Brigade as we are (or were) all involved at one point or another (five out of six of us are still involved).
I was picked up from Nottingham Station by the two people who were coming from Nottingham and we went straight to Fiskerton. We then decided to walk to the village shop, big mistake! Whilst it is possible to walk to the Village shop and it's not a long way, there's no walkway between the road we were on and into the Village, the road's fairly busy as well so it wasn't exactly a pleasant walk.
On the Saturday we went into Central Newark for the market, we returned to the Dovecote in the early afternoon and spent a fairly leisurely afternoon reading the papers and watching the Snooker. This was unusual, in previous years we've spent the whole day out only returning in the late afternoon or early evening.
On the Sunday we went in to Lincoln for the Cathedral and Castle, very interesting and took a walking guided tour of the city. Very old city, some remains of the Roman town and still some Norman houses remaining (and they're still in use).
I did take photos, but don't have the photos to hand, will add when I've downloaded them.
After going back to the Dovecote we later went out for a Pub Quiz at the local.
On Monday morning rather than going straight back as we normally do, we went to the local sports pavilion and fields as there was an event on which we'd read about earlier on the weekend. We ended up playing bowls and watching the dance display. I finally got back to my flat in London about 7.00 p.m.
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