An interesting few days.
On Friday night we had our Achievement Wales business awards at Bangor University. It was a reet good do. Declan Curry (breakfast telly - business) was the compere and did a wonderful job, including ad libbing for several minutes about the global economy when we thought our guest speaker had got stuck in traffic.
He was a star performer - and so was our chief guest and speaker Sir Roger Jones, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, when he breathlessly arrived shortly after.
Back into costume on Sunday but this time all in red rather than black tie as I joined the 500 Santa fun runners on Llandudno Prom for the Hope House Santa Dash. It was a hoot - and not as tough as the hilly and longer Oswestry course last year. Just very glad that old friend Keith and I, who ran the course with me, had taken it steady the previous night (He introduced me to a good friend of his, a Mr Jack Daniels, some time ago and we were starting to renew our acquaintance when good sense prevailed).
News editor Debbie James has put together another cracking news list for tomorrow. I'm not going to reveal the splash (it's a good 'un) but we do have a great follow-up on the school chemical scare plus, of course, all the details of the Yorkshire police chief banned from driving for speeding in North Wales. You've got to smile, haven't you?
Keith Morrison wrote...
Old Friend Keith here who would just like to point that he nearly wasn't an old friend when greeted with a santa suit and a "Guess what you are doing in the morning" look in Rob's eye when I turned up on Saturday evening. It was ideed a hoot and for a truly worthwhile cause. To describe our performance though as a dash would be somewhat misleading, our tortoise approach did however pay dividends as we finished respectfully high up in the field. I put this down to the pre-dash meal (a bacon butty) provided by Rob's wife Julie. I am up for it next year and perhaps then Rob, we should take Mr Daniels with us!
Posted by: Keith Morrison | December 10, 2007 12:01 PM