It was a cool morning of good running weather, damp but with no rain, as Sophie, Dike, Amina, Dan, Leo and I joined the crowd gathered at the start line of Prince's parkrun. We all made good time on our two and a half loops around the park, waving at Lucien on our way past as he fed the ducks and cheered us on. At the beginning of the year Sallyann had the brilliant idea to encourage people to join for our monthly social by giving us all special custom loyalty cards and bribing us to turn up to parkrun and/or breakfast with the promise of adding a star sticker each time. Part of the grand vision of her plan was that each month we would also choose a new cafe to try that we hadn't been to before, and so get to decide the best local breakfast. At September's session, Sallyann upped the stakes even further by handing out GOLD star stickers instead of the already very exciting silver we were used to. This month she was away, thinking that she was safe to pass sticker duty into Lucien's trustworthy hands, but without her we descended into sticker chaos! We are already into month ten of the year in parkrun, and running out of ideas for new cafes. We decided it would be acceptable to return to our previous regular The Third Cafe, since we hadn't been there this year. Sophie and Amina headed home while the rest of us went for breakfast, hoping that this would not jeopardise our star! Luckily Sallyann confirmed that she only needed the group photo as proof of who had made up the group that morning... but this led to subterfuge and deception as a certain member made such a convincing fake version of the group photo including her that we were suddenly certain we remembered a strange stick figure with a big smile jogging in our midst! Given that she missed parkrun because she was doing a different and longer run, I think at least half a star is owed to Bekah for that, and at least another half for creativity and nerve! This is why I'm not allowed to make the rules....