Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ Just about made the day work yesterday
Rain stopped play for quite a lot of it. Parkrun was OK. I might have already written here somewhere, T1 had a week off and I was not needed to volunteer so we didn't get there early. T1 thinks he has done enough for his DofE and has now quit parkrun but we'll see. I was so relaxed about not getting there early that I was a bit late, started right at the back just after it had started, so my time looks quite poor:
Folkestone parkrun results for event #393. Your time was 00:25:31.
Congratulations on completing your 131st parkrun and your 119th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 109th place and were the 92nd Male out of a field of 397 parkrunners and you came 12th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:23:24.
The nephew was still volunteering so I had a coffee and waited at the end for him to finish to give him a lift. Then picked up my boys again and took them all round to grandpa's for the day. Then took Clare to an appointment and I was free for the day!
I walked into Folkestone, still not actually raining at this point. Sandgate was looking very popular, the cafes all full. Lots of lycra-clad cyclists clogging up Orchard Lane, and lots of people from parkrun across the road at Loaf. Docker was just opening and I looked in Chris Canning as I was thinking of getting my hair cut, but really needed to do it after lunch.
Walked through town and into Marke Square to buy some treats, some different alcohol free beers that you don't see other places ready for those not drinking days, and then some interesting wine for gifts, and some quirky snacks. Some locally made chilli crisps and some hot sauce and some pickeld walnuts. I've never had them before, this was a bit of a whim. I went a bit pay day crazy.
To Dr Legumes where I met Clare for lunch, and while something went wrong and service was slow (we think they had to go out and buy and ingredient) the food and drinks were good. I had a black mint tea kombucha with my vegan "rubens" sandwich, fake pastrami and things. Clare had the southern fried seitan and a raspberry lemonade. Unusual choice for her was she a bit hungover from her big night out at Rock Salt the night before?
She went home and I carried on walking round, but now the rain started. I got my hair cut at "Cushty Cuts", an Only Fools And Horses themed barber shop that I'd seen many times. Lucky was not busy so quick, lovely jubbly. Then the rain ahd cleared the streets, everyone piled into the cafes and pubs. I was planning a coffee and then a pint but everywhere I looked in was a bit too crowded for the quiet sit I had planned. In the end I jumped on a bus to Hythe and spent the afternoon in The Potting Shed. Did not get that coffee.
Today, that coffee, and then some washing and ironing.
Twenty-five years ago today some proper indie, Tiger at Camden Falcon. I'm sure I went here a lot, but did they not do real tickets? I have very little record apart from this night. Then thirty years ago and I do have the ticket (or I did when I scanned it) for Suicidal Tendencies at Brixton Academy.
Guessing 1156 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 probably comes to £1.26 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 but not the 'leccy).
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