The blog of Steve Root

  • Mum and Dad fly to Oz

    Mum and Dad left for Australia this morning. That’s partly why I’m in so early on a Sunday. The other part is that Dave is driving them to the airport and he had some tilers starting in the shop early. All part of Dave’s big re-organisation of the upstairs showroom.

    Anyway, in typical Root fashion they left at about 8.15am. They were meant to leave around 7am (at least, that’s the time Mum said they were leaving last night). Almost everything was done before they left, though I’ve picked up a few jobs to do for mum that she didn’t get time to do.

    It doesn’t seem that long ago Mum was last back from Australia. This time they’re off to see our friend Karen get married. Karen is just a few months older than me and is the daughter of Mum and Dad’s friends Dave and Lydia. The met Dave and Lydia in Australia when they lived out there (around 1975). They’ve all managed to keep in touch despite the passing of time and the way life changes (Dave’s work takes him all over the world. He takes really good photos of the places he goes to. Many get uploaded to his own website, and I’ve seen them featured on other sites like this one.

    Hopefully, it won’t be too long before I get to go to Australia and see Sharon, Todd and Lily.

  • The Boughton 10k went well

    i-1f1b8e0d6573ad562c66830310bf7f58-b10k_small.pngThe Boughton 10K went very well. We had 355 people enter (312 turned up and completed) the 10K and 142 in the Fun Run.

    2 Years before, there were around 215 runners in the 10K, and last year there were over 400. The big leap came from the run being selected as a “Kent Championship” race. This year were weren’t, so as a new organising team would have settled for 215 entrants, with hopes to grow it to 250 thanks to the advertising we did. I most optomistic target was for 300 runners.

    I’ve written a report that will go out with the finalised results about how the day went. Like how Mid Kent Water saved the day when at 6pm the night before we realised we had far more runners than we expected and not enough drinking water for them all. The provisional results were posted at http://www.rootskitchens.co.uk/10k.

  • Have you ever noticed…

    Have you ever noticed how when you have the inclination to do something you can’t and when you are able to do that thing, you can’t remember exactly what you were going to do?

    There are lots of things I’ve been meaning to write about and just haven’t made any time to, but it’s around half past 9 on Sunday morning, I’m at work early (more on why later) and I’ve got a spare few minutes. Actually, they’re not really spare – but I decided to treat myself and do some typing instead of work.

    So, what’s been going on?
    I think, I’ll create a new entry for all the different things like: Mum and Dad going to Australia this morning, How the Boughton 10K went, and more.

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