...not quite as planned

...today started exactly as planned and ended differently. i picked up tony at 9 to drive down to loftus for the annual christmas "poultry" run an 8 mile cross country extravaganza that is a regular feature of mine and tony's calendar. now you are imagining due to the name that chicken's may run about... just for the record this is not the case... there is often the odd runner dressed as santa claus but generally just regularly garbed runners... as we got to hutton henry we started to question the weather conditions and by the time we got to middlesbro we thought the fact there was only one passable lane was going to give us problems getting to loftus never mind running around its countryside!!
...we got christine to check the web, which we should have done before we left, and the run had been cancelled at 7 that morning!! so we turned back and ran around the beautiful finchale abbey instead.
...and it is now very much christmas.... well... when else do you watch three films in a day... national lampoon's christmas vacation, the mummy, and whichever harry potter film it is that's now on.... christmas starts here!