If organisers turned up at park run this morning to find a herd of stampeding buffalo where the park runners normally ran they would almost certainly have to call it off. This would be the case even if there was just one buffalo aaaand it had registered for park run and had the appropriate bar code.
Just thinking out loud there. There are other reasons why a park run would be cancelled. Tornado warning for example. Or an aircraft landing on the track because it ran out of fuel. That would be freaky bad luck when you consider that RAF Waddington is just a couple of miles away. As long as those onboard are OK that’s all that really matters.
I daresay others could think of more reasons for cancelling a park run but my intention here is not to produce an exhaustive list. If I have at least managed to stimulate debate on this most important of subjects then I am happy. I won’t go so far as to say I’d die happy. I don’t want you to think this is something of particular importance to me personally cos it ain’t. It may have struck a chord for you but not me soz. Also I wouldn’t want to tempt fate re the die happy thing.
Now some may be thinking Tref’s lost the plot here. Huh what do they know? Get a life.
Apaz today is St Nicholas’s day. Fair play to him. heard it on the wireless when Thought For The Day came on. I think we should celebrate it. Party. People used to celebrate a lot more saints’ days. We should reintroduce these important old traditions. I’ve been reading someone’s PhD thesis on Land, people and power in early medieval Wales. It discusses traditional rural customs during the course of the year and how laws were in place that defined what was done on a farm as the seasons changed. The changing of the seasons also involved celebrations of multiple saints days. In the days when people went to bed when it got dark and there was bugger all on the telly (nothing changed there then) they looked forward to their saints day celebrations. A chance to let loose. They would brew a batch of beer specially.
Nowadays we have far too many calendar events for people to celebrate. Father’s Day for example. Designed to make you buy more greetings cards. I set no store by Father’s Day but I did once buy a job lot of Happy Father’s Day cards in a newsagents clearance sale. Somewhere in north London fwiw. Seven identical cards featuring the same sporty red car. Dad got the same card from me for the next seven years on the trot. Didn’t notice a thing 🙂 When the cards ran out I stopped sending them. As you know I don’t do Father’s Day. Doubt dad noticed that they’d stopped either.
Right, THG has gone to park run and I need to get on with the day. Beef stock to bag up and freeze.