Last Saturday we travelled up to Edinburgh to go to our Burns Supper, organised by us 5 runners to raise money towards our London Marathon fundraising. It'd taken a lot organising but with all tickets sold and some great prizes volunteered by friends, but it all came together on the night.
A lot better than our journey up after the alarm failed to go off. We didn't know it was possible to be inside security in the airport less than an hour after waking up, but it is... My parents were over and we were leaving them looking after the boys overnight - a very welcome break.
The evening started with a welcome and straight into addressing the haggis, delivered flawlessly by Jonny. The meal was great and then Ross, Graham and Jenni all did great in the toasts. After a bit of Scottish dancing and the raffle, came the highlight of the evening. We had some great stuff to put in the auction and Potters has found his true calling in life as an auctioneer. We had husbands and wives bidding against each other, guys who'd agreed to club together to buy the golf together bidding against each other, and one guy was even seen bidding against himself... Most amusing and in the process raising much more money than we'd expected with a total of about £9000 which we're splitting between The National Society for Epilepsy and The Childrens Trust.
The training's been on hold for a few days but managed to get out for a run today. I'm going to try and do a longer run over the weekend so we'll see how that goes.
Ross is down to 10% of the original dose of the steroids and should be off them completely by the end of February. Hopefully the seizures stay under control. I must get some recent photos on here so you can see how he's doing...
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