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mascott514 May 2019 7:52am, 16 May 2019 219 posts	Quote Pin mascott514 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) May 2019 10:02am, 16 May 2019 31,390 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) 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 May 2019 10:06am, 16 May 2019 2,698 posts	Quote Pin Goofee 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 May 2019 10:47am, 16 May 2019 28,110 posts	Quote Pin DocMoye Love that
Nessie May 2019 3:27pm, 16 May 2019 778 posts	Quote Pin Nessie 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 May 2019 5:39pm, 16 May 2019 6,521 posts	Quote Pin chunkywizard Goffee, can you berate the volunteer for not including Dinton please.
Goofee May 2019 5:50pm, 16 May 2019 2,700 posts	Quote Pin Goofee I'll have a quiet word cw.
larkim May 2019 4:07pm, 17 May 2019 7,535 posts	Quote Pin larkim 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 May 2019 4:50pm, 17 May 2019 6,525 posts	Quote Pin chunkywizard 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 May 2019 4:52pm, 17 May 2019 780 posts	Quote Pin Nessie 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).