We didn’t know it before we arrived, however, this was the very first Canadian parkrun so we have now made two national pilgrimages in 3 weeks. With a sensible 09:00 start we didn’t leave home until 07:45 and went with Deirdre so that she could experience her first parkrun. Upon arrival we were met by…

Whilst we are visiting Canada we are staying with our friends who were absolutely determined we would be staying with them. Not always the easiest thing to do when you are a wheelchair user and there are 2 steps to navigate to get into the house However, this doesn’t prove to be a problem when…

The International date line is a bit strange! On Wednesday morning 21st of May at 10:00am we departed Australia to fly to Canada. Flight time was just over 16.5 hours plus we had a 2 hour gap between flights. On Wednesday morning 21st of May at 09:05am we arrived in Canada! So we essentially arrived…

The Australia parkrun journey has come to a finish. Here are our stats:- 18 out of 24 possible parkruns participated at – 11 5km and 7 juniors. 4 Cancelled due to weather (Tropical Cyclone Alfred and rain) 1 unable to attend due to not having a Victoria Working with Children blue card. 1 junior event…

Unknown at the time, this was going to end up as our final parkrun of our Australia adventure. It was another 05:00 alarm setting, although Rory awoke at 04:20. Darren was joining us for he trip. The weather wasn’t great with a lot of rain on the 40 minute journey. As usual one of the…

This was supposed to be an activity for both of us as the Bridge Climb people had recently launched a wheelchair climb. However, due to lots of issues they are unable to go ahead with chair climbs just yet. We did get to see the special chair. So this was something I had to do…

Had to be done! When you have two grandchildren who love Bluey, then it was absolutely right we popped along to Bluey’s World in Brisbane. The venue is set up as a tour of Bluey’s house, with a story line of having to find Bluey and Bingo. Guided by a (human) Gnome we made our…

As we decided to stay at Surfers Paradise on Saturday night we made a second trip to this event. There was much rain over night and more expected which reduced numbers as well as it being Mothering Sunday. Hilary was funnel manager and Rory was barcode scanning. 29 children participated and got ultra muddy. Another…

Last week we said “It’s not often that a review of Saturday parkrun starts with Friday activities” however, that is precisely what is needed for our parkrun Australia pilgrimage. It was a few weeks into our trip that Rory realised that his parkrun anniversary fell on the same day as parkrun Australia as both had…

We were back for what is our penultimate stint of volunteering at Des Connor juniors. We discovered from one of the regular volunteers that we had been highlighted on the parkrun Australia Facebook page the previous day. (Clicking on any picture will open it/them in an easy to navigate album but larger in size)  Both…