Mr R had pre-empted the fact that for the past two weeks there had been no little gem lettuces on the shelves at his local Tesco, by not putting them on this week's list - of course, when I got there the shelves were full of the little green lettuces...such are the joys of Monday afternoon shopping. I did though fill the basket with everything that he wanted, and we had a very good chat on the doorstep about Mr R gaining confidence to walk a little further each day.

It was somewhat atmospheric first thing at the Fields this morning as Rue and I laid out the cones for event #355, as a thin layer of mist hung in the air. We felt we might be short of volunteers but true to form as the clock clicked closer to 9, we welcomed Lucinda and Kareem for another week of high vizzing - with Rue directing the show once again and leading the warm up with the Hackney Haka, and Nick on barcode scanning we had decent GG representation - 6 other helpful volunteers stepped up, and we were able to get the show on the road for another week.

4 first timers took on the slightly muddy 2 laps today, and our first two finishers sprinted down the home straight to only finish a few seconds apart in an exciting finish. 44 keen runners took to the course, setting 4 pbs and everything seemed to go remarkably smoothly in spite of the slippery conditions underfoot!

...or in this case our hands, but Sam and I both commented when we met outside Ms V's front door on how today's welcome appearance by the sunshine improved our moods enormously. The ever cheery Ms V was also pleased to see us when she opened the front door, and we quickly had her mattress moved from the spare room onto the bed frame as requested. Smiles all round.