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Beeblebears' Picnic
Went to the beeblebears picnic in London yesterday and had one of the most wonderfully relaxing days I've had in quite some time.
I'd been in two minds about going as I've been having a lot of problems with back and shoulder trouble recently, but the bombers pretty well made up my mind for me. If they want to scare me off the underground, they'll have to try harder than that.
I left home at nine and actually arrived about an hour and a half early. I'd left a good safety margin in case there were any transport delays. So, having nothing to do in the interim, I wandered in the direction of the park and spotted a banner with the words "Royal college of Physicians - open day"
It was a bit hard to tell what kind of open day it was - when I glanced through the door, it looked more like a conferece than anything else. However, I decided the worst thing they could tell me could be to go away, so I ventured further and ended up attending two very interesting half-hour lectures. One was on extreme sports and the nutritional demands they make on the body (given by a doctor who had a hobby of marathon running - he once did 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 different continents) and the health benefits of exercise (if you're obese, but fit, then your health may be better than that of a thin person who does not exercise).
The second lecture was on nutrition, a subject I've had an interest in for many years. I came out clutching a bag of dried pasta, my prize for correctly answering some of the questions.
If the editor of Mostly Harmless is reading this, here's one for 'Towel Corner'. "A male with a Body Mass Index over 35 is 42 times more likely to develop diabetes."
By now, it was time to meet up with the rest of the group, so I headed back to Regent's Park tube station. We had a good size group, the largest ZZ9 event I've yet been too. In the end, there were 20+ people at the picnic.
Regent's Park was lovely. We settled down on the grass and introduced our beeblebears to one another. Phill (see icon) was glad to make lots of new friends. (I virtuously refrained from telling people what I thought of the nutritional value of their lunches.)
It was a lovely sunny day, not too hot and just a trace of a gentle breeze. At any given time, there were usually a couple of people playing with poi, maybe a few kicking a beachball around, a group with a frisbee, someone playing a penny whistle and maybe a card game going on.
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dougs was asleep most of the time, which is a damn good thing as he really shouldn't have been there at all. He was looking pretty under the weather and if it hadn't been for the bombings I think he'd have stayed at home and curled up in bed. I hope he's feeling a bit better today.
I had a lovely day. I chatted to friends old and new, spent a lot of time playing frisbee, learnt a new poi trick offalexmc and taught one myself to a young fan.
I'm already looking forward to whatever the next ZZ9 event may be. It's a trek from Dorset to London, but sometimes, it's definitely worth it.
I'd been in two minds about going as I've been having a lot of problems with back and shoulder trouble recently, but the bombers pretty well made up my mind for me. If they want to scare me off the underground, they'll have to try harder than that.
I left home at nine and actually arrived about an hour and a half early. I'd left a good safety margin in case there were any transport delays. So, having nothing to do in the interim, I wandered in the direction of the park and spotted a banner with the words "Royal college of Physicians - open day"
It was a bit hard to tell what kind of open day it was - when I glanced through the door, it looked more like a conferece than anything else. However, I decided the worst thing they could tell me could be to go away, so I ventured further and ended up attending two very interesting half-hour lectures. One was on extreme sports and the nutritional demands they make on the body (given by a doctor who had a hobby of marathon running - he once did 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 different continents) and the health benefits of exercise (if you're obese, but fit, then your health may be better than that of a thin person who does not exercise).
The second lecture was on nutrition, a subject I've had an interest in for many years. I came out clutching a bag of dried pasta, my prize for correctly answering some of the questions.
If the editor of Mostly Harmless is reading this, here's one for 'Towel Corner'. "A male with a Body Mass Index over 35 is 42 times more likely to develop diabetes."
By now, it was time to meet up with the rest of the group, so I headed back to Regent's Park tube station. We had a good size group, the largest ZZ9 event I've yet been too. In the end, there were 20+ people at the picnic.
Regent's Park was lovely. We settled down on the grass and introduced our beeblebears to one another. Phill (see icon) was glad to make lots of new friends. (I virtuously refrained from telling people what I thought of the nutritional value of their lunches.)
It was a lovely sunny day, not too hot and just a trace of a gentle breeze. At any given time, there were usually a couple of people playing with poi, maybe a few kicking a beachball around, a group with a frisbee, someone playing a penny whistle and maybe a card game going on.
dougs was asleep most of the time, which is a damn good thing as he really shouldn't have been there at all. He was looking pretty under the weather and if it hadn't been for the bombings I think he'd have stayed at home and curled up in bed. I hope he's feeling a bit better today.I had a lovely day. I chatted to friends old and new, spent a lot of time playing frisbee, learnt a new poi trick off
alexmc and taught one myself to a young fan.I'm already looking forward to whatever the next ZZ9 event may be. It's a trek from Dorset to London, but sometimes, it's definitely worth it.
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I should re-acquire a PDA to go "bingly bongely beep" and remind me to do things I meant to do. In defense, was day after returning from holiday and had a cold, so...
Will be there for next years picnic. And the water fight sometime soon ;)