Well what a £$%^&* mix up. His Excellency thought that I was still in France and made a rare appearance on Tuesday with a time of 22.38 - only a mere 4 minutes and 51 seconds slower than his all time best. I did not dare run in such exalted company because even with a damaged knee I would not have fancied His chances. However some 70 other runners decided to run in the race and 29 of them recorded their fastest times of the series - including yet again Angelic who retains the Race Leadership.

What can one say about Angelic - well if she were not of the non human species I could say quite a lot. To date we have had 6 GPs and Angelic has finished 37, 62, 2,4,1 and 6 with times of 54.29, 31.13, 29.39, 28.33, 28.05, and on Tuesday last 26.55.What make things worse is that Koventry saw me at South Shields a couple of weeks ago and said " Phil, would you kare to meet a kouple of the Klaremont non humans. One of them is Angelik - you cnow, the one who is extracting the $%^& from you at eakh Grand Prix" Before I could think of a reply Angelic smiled sweetly and said "Hello". How can one reply aggressively to a sweetly smiling non human - even if you know that the smile means "Andy Capper - I've got you beaten!!"So the leader board now reads as the aforementioned Angelic on 50 points followed by Ambitious with 109 points, Judging the First with 133 points, Horrendous  with 139 points, Tearaway Trevor (5th on the night in a season's best of 24.32) also on 139 points and Plodding Paul (2nd on the night in a season's best of 21.22) on 141 points.

The Team result saw Don,s Dreamers win on the night followed by Flowers' Flyers and Ron's Rollers.Flying Flowers still lead in the team race some 10 points clear of The Caterers  and 12 points clear of Woodies Washouts..

The fastest on the night was once again Newcomer in 18.33 - yet another best of the season followed by Wise (after Leeds) in 19.10, Magnificent in 19.33 and Bruiser in 19.56 Chez the other species Karefree (the other smiling non human with Koventry at South Shields) was fastest with 21.39 ( Karefree was in fact 11th on the night!!) followed by Overseas in 22.30, Lesley the Lady (another seasons best) in 24.41 and Katherine in 25.45.

To conclude I have to inform all that I cnow that Koventry is learning/has mastered Exkel and I am arranging for investigations to be karried out to see if Koventry has broken into my ordinateur (that is my frenkh komputer) bekause I have had to kall a kease fire with His Exkellenky to try to worc out why Klaremont are dominating this series.All we kould dekide was "Kongratulations - but watkh you bakcs at GP8  
 
To end- as opposed to conclude - Alan, Dave Carr, Ian Holland and I are looking for a new venue for the presentation after GP8. The Delaval Arms is in the frame . Does any one have any views on this subject please.

The Peasant