Supporters: February 2007 Archives

Today, for the first time, running a half marathon at the end of March seems like a possibility.

I've signed up for the Reading Half Marathon, tempted by the offer to run for a good cause or two. I'm running to raise money for Reading Single Homeless Project, and hopefully a little for 24-7 on the side! If you'd like to sponsor me, links will be posted here soon on how to do that!

I'd like to be able to run the distance in under two hours, although I should have started training quite a while before I did for that to be a practical aim! Having said that, however, I ran 11km in 1hr 2mins today, so it may just be do-able.

Watch this space...

Last weekend Shirley and I spend a quiet afternoon up at Douai Abbey near Reading. We're trying to build more of a rhythm of quiet days into our routine, and the evidence that we're not quite there yet was displayed by the entry in her diary, conspicuously missing from mine! Thankfully I'd not managed to double book us, so we drove up to the Abbey on the beautifully crisp and sunny Saturday afternoon.

Its quite sad how happy this picture made me feel, accompanied by the following words:

"Your item with reference ZU12345GB was delivered from our LIVERPOOL Delivery Office on 30/01/07 .

We can confirm that this item was delivered before the guaranteed time."

I've spent the last month replying to a ridiculous (and I use that word deliberately!) number of e-mails about 24-7's accounts from our auditors, and despite my best attempts we only managed to get them in right before our companies house and charity commission deadlines. PHEW!