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mascott514
mascott514
May 2019
7:52am, 16 May 2019
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I like the story.

I nice example of the draw of parkrun- essentially, he did it because its fun and he wanted to.

Hats off to him
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
May 2019
10:02am, 16 May 2019
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It's a fun story. BBC does "human interest" not just "serious news", remember. A pal of ours in our running club is a BBC reporter. She writes some hilarious stuff, esp about running. :-) G
Goofee
Goofee
May 2019
10:06am, 16 May 2019
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One of our core volunteers did set up at Prospect, cycled to Reading for Barcode Scanning and then onto Woodley for Token Sorting last week, just because he realised it could be done! :-)
DocMoye
DocMoye
May 2019
10:47am, 16 May 2019
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Love that
Nessie
Nessie
May 2019
3:27pm, 16 May 2019
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I think he might have been mentioned in the Free Weekly Timed podcast Goofee. Great that there are so many parkruns that that kind of thing is possible. I couldn't drive to my next closest parkrun in the time it would take for me to run it.
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
May 2019
5:39pm, 16 May 2019
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Goffee, can you berate the volunteer for not including Dinton please. ;-)
Goofee
Goofee
May 2019
5:50pm, 16 May 2019
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I'll have a quiet word cw.
larkim
larkim
May 2019
4:07pm, 17 May 2019
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Just in case anyone else is waiting for ProDirect to send on t-shirts which were in the most recent backlog, I got the following (after I emailed them) today:-

"I can confirm that the stock has arrived, however, we have encountered an issue whilst trying to capture the postage payments. Unfortunately we are finding payments have expired and unable to be captured, and as such this is holding up the tees. We are working on trying to find a way around this, and we do expect to be in touch with you in relation to this, very very soon. "

It sounds like they are sitting their twiddling their thumbs wondering when a solution will fly out of mid-air and land on their desk!
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
May 2019
4:50pm, 17 May 2019
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I had exactly this. I chased and then got told of the issue. I then hassled daily before getting a dispatch after about 5 days. I've got my 250 now <3
Nessie
Nessie
May 2019
4:52pm, 17 May 2019
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I got the same email today about my daughter's 10 shirt. If the just put that up on the website somewhere, they could save themselved a lot of time answering emails (even if it is just a cut and paste job).

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