The show must go on, we won’t let howling winds and torrential rain stand in our way.
Runners have to run what ever the weather, Mr Uhdd is out on a big race today, it finishes in the Derbyshire village of Edale, this is what the weather was like the last time he ran that area, you can see a video of that race, ‘The Edale Skyline’ here if you need confirmation fell runners are barking mad
You can tell from the runners postures, just how unpleasant the conditions were, when he eventually got home his eyes were blood shot, and he couldn’t bend down to undo his running shoes, this is how I can tell he had a good time.
The weather here has been horrid for days,it has been raining stair rods, lashing and lashings of driving rain, most unpleasant, but the show must go on, a raft of Christmas fairs and charity fund raising events were scheduled for the magic date of ‘the first weekend in December’ (and I didn’t see a police person at any of them)
When Father Christmas arrived in the village he gave up on the sleigh and floated in, (well whatever the weather, he would have done any way, he always arrives by canal barge, it is a tradition in theses parts) the kids that had been waiting patiently, queuing in the rain, to see him; a long snake of a drenched and bedraggled children and parents that disappeared past the Co-op and round the corner as far as the paper shop, It may not be in the true spirit of Christmas, but I could see the need for two Santa’s to speed thing up a bit. The brass band did its best to lift the spirits a bit, and I was kicking myself for not having the camera with me, I missed a corker of a shot when the tuba player was tipping rain water out of his instrument.
So it is only December the second and I do not want to see another mince pie hear another carol till the 24th of December, OK, I am not the only one who feels like this.
