HELLO Saturday morning, HELLO Colne Radio Crowd Funder success.
Hurrah!
Reminder: WE MADE IT! We got to £3k target! Now trying to raise a little more before Monday https://t.co/OYJFlTqSoZ pic.twitter.com/0Kz3HTK6S8
— Colne Radio (@ColneRadio) July 2, 2016
Blimey.
Where did that come from?
I actually *do* know where the very kind £500 pledge came from early on Saturday morning that tipped the crowd funder over our £3,000 target.
Thank you, Sir!
Timing is everything.
And my bloody timing was way out of synch for early on Saturday morning.
I wasn’t expecting to reach the target until possibly late in the day tomorrow.
It all meant that I had some frantic activity in bashing out a thank you post for the Colne Radio website, doing the social media tart thing, and generally thanking folk.
But I had to be out of the house by 8:30am for ParkRun.
I should probably write a more considered piece about the crowd funder and what worked, and what didn’t.
Basically: don’t hold your crowd funder when the country is in lockdown and disunity over a bloody referendum.
We had a two day period of ZERO action. I actually cried.
We knew that this would be a busy period with the referendum, Euro 2016, Wimbledon and Glasto. But the station simply couldn’t wait until the school holidays.
And what worked?
Well - we got there.
And then some…
I’ve already been approached by another local sort, asking about crowd funding a similar project.
It’s too soon to run and manage it. But I have the ideas and desire.
And so it was out of the house at 8:30am, a mad cycle along a very green Trail, and then Colchester Park Run.
I’m learning to absolutely LOVE this event.
I was a little low on resources though. I skipped breakfast with the crowd funding nonsense, and so was running on empty.
My fuel was the curry from last night. I made the right decision in snaffling Anna’s last remaining bhaji.
It was a decent run, with a final race time of 22″09′ - about 40 seconds off a Colchester PB. I finished 4th in my vets category.
Happy with that.
I then went to the Sunny Colch opticians in a slightly sweaty state after ParkRun.
Apologies.
The new bins that I picked up in Brixton last Saturday weren’t fitted correctly.
No worries - I’d go to Sepcsavers in Sunny Colch and get them sorted.
Except I ended up in Vision Express and somehow managed to get them to adjust my fitting, only before realising that I was in the wrong bloody shop.
Whoops.
Should have gone to Specsavers, etc.
Arf.
I managed to squeeze in a brief viewing of the new Martin Parr exhibition at firstsite.
For the opening day of an exhibition on a Saturday mid-morning, it was… empty 🙁
And so Parr @firstsite… pic.twitter.com/u0sG77ExJD
— Colchester Chronicle (@ColchChronic) July 2, 2016
Parr is my favourite snapper. The scope of the firstsite exhibition was vast - probably too vast.
A second and third return will no doubt follow.
I cycled on to the pool for a brief splash about and a clean up.
West Ham Wanker was holding court.
Oh dear.
West Ham Wanker on a "poolside date." Repeat: WEST HAM WANKER ON A "POOLSIDE DATE." Oh Lordy.
— Jason_Cobb (@Jason_Cobb) July 2, 2016
Straight outta the pool, and straight into the barber’s chair.
A number one all over, and something for the weekend please.
It was an OK haircut, but as ever, I was the perfectionist back at base, attempting to clean up any loose strands of what remains of what I am optimistically calling ‘my hair.’
I got my clippers out and WOH.
I forgot to put the bloody No. 1 guard on.
Whoops.
I now have a clump of hair missing from the front of my head - the only area where it is really still actively growing.
I look like a reject from A Flock of Seagulls.
That’s not a good look, Jase.
I went undercover with a cap, and walked of to the Wivenhoe Fete on the Field.
I didn’t have long - only an hour ahead of a run of afternoon work shifts. It was lovely catching up with some folk I’ve not spoken with in a while.
I ran around doing the photo thing before the rain started.
And then work back at base.
The Dexy’s album kept me company and put a HUGE smile on my face.
That's @DexysOfficial album: repeated plays and it is joyous, camp and bloody funny in places. "Yep, that's me as well…" #KeepTheFaith
— Jason_Cobb (@Jason_Cobb) July 2, 2016
Kev is camp.
YEAH.
Saturday came to a close with Le Tour, ODI Cricket and BOOZE.
Chin chin.