Mad dash

Saturday was the RUH Mad Dash.  We entered Oscar into the 200m toddle, he didn't seem to sure of why we were there in the field by Bath Spa Campus (which is really pleasant by the way).  But when everyone lined up and started running he got the idea.  Unfortunately a little tumble near the start put his off so Nicky had to pick him up and run all the way.

He got a goody bag and both Oscar and Nicky got a nice medal for taking part although Oscar really wasn't impressed with the teddy bear in the goody bag.

We think we'll go again next year when one of us can run the 10k or 2k race too.

Oscar and Nicky rearing to get running!

Looking at this shot Oscar actually managed to run some distance!

I ran all that way for this?

We suffered an epic fail using Google Maps as a search for a nearby country park offered us all sorts of results but unfortunately Google doesn't seem to know what a country park is.  It took us to Iford house, which does look very pleasant but wasn't what we were after; fortunately we did find Barton Farm Country Park using trusty paper map 'and a little bit of Googling'.  Oscar really enjoyed paddling in the stream, we only stayed for a short while as the lack of hard cash and hunger took us on our way in search of either a cash point or somewhere that we could pay by card...

Oscar really enjoyed finding fish in the water.

Sunday was eventful, but not in a good way.  When walking the dogs with Oscar in his backpack carrier George, in his rabbit chasing frenzy, disturbed a wasp nest and they went for us.  Toby got stung in his back leg, George in his mouth (although his adrenalin seemed to stop the effects until he got home), and I got stung on my hand, arm, chin and head; fortunately Oscar escaped unscathed.  Predictably I ran off screaming like a pansy and Oscar thought this was hilarious.