Most of the athletics is over for another year and the IAAF Awards have been given out. Not much competition for the Male athlete of the year – Usain Bolt - and well deserved too.
The female award was another thing altogether!
Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot was overlooked in favour of Ozzie Sally Person. I have interviewed / chatted to both in the past year and found them both very nice people and very good at what they do. But I, and a lot of others, find it difficult to understand how Sally got the vote over Vivian. Have a look at the link and it may explain more if you don’t follow athletics.
It is Children in Need time again and local BBC pitched up in Durham City to sell the calendar – normally a nice success. All in all more than 300 calendars were sold and the team were ‘over the moon’ and will come back again.
It was also nice to catch up with Julie Smith – a VJ for the BBC based in Newcastle. It was nice to chat ‘in a happy time’ as our last meetings have been sad.
ALSO, had time to make final arrangements for the Durham City Christmas Festival this year. It is a magical event for young and old as the City lends itself to this sort of occasion. There will be a number of brass bands adding to the atmosphere on both Saturday and Sunday (3 &4 DEC) as well as a lantern parade by youngsters up to the Cathedral where there will be a ‘Christmas sing song’ for all.
More on that later, but for now Keep Smilin’
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