Greenwich Park/Temple Walkie and the London Marathon

Well, the last few weekends we have seen some beautiful weather. Last Saturday we packed up a picnic, a few beers and a 99p footy ball and headed with a group of around 15 people to Greenwich park where we consumed large amounts of alcohol, which was aided by the fact that Liz that worked at raidoworks asked Anna to be her bridesmaid, so they thought it would be a suitable occasion to celebrate, and that they did . It was around 25 degrees and in typical Anna fashion she neglected to put sun block on and got slightly red. After soaking up the sun we headed to the walkabout at Temple to watch the cricket and get rotten on snake bites. We caught the night bus home with Hitcho who stayed the night which was lucky as both Anna and myself fell asleep on the bus. Sunday dawned another great day so we had a BBQ with a few mates in our wee courtyard.

This weekend was another great weekend weather wise. Saturday we went with Luke, Dan, Jody and Blair to a few markets then caught up with Phil and Kim for a cheeky beer on the Thames. I then spent the next hour trying to locate a rugby ball, while Anna, Phil and Kim went and got some drinks and nibbles. We sat outside again and had a pass of the rugby ball and yarned with the intentions of having a quite night due to an early start required this morning to get up and watch the marathon, but it ended up a rather messy affair.

Today we headed off around 730 to go and watch Luke in the marathon. In typical fashion the tube broke down and left lots of runners having to walk about 5 miles to the start line. We followed the race and watched from 4 places which was just awesome. The atmosphere was something I have not experienced in any sporting event, the entire 26 miles is lined several people deep with live bands, drums, bells and 36,000 runners. Luke was in fine form and did a 3:15 time which was very impressive given the heat. Afterwards we went out for lunch in Putney sat in the sun and enjoyed a few quites whilst Luke entertained us with a few stories.




We have a couple of bank holidays coming up shortly so are looking at heading to Europe for a couple of trips which we are both really looking forward too. Anna started her new job last week working at a law firm, she has got a pretty cruisy number and a fairly short commute so is happy enough.