{"id":230,"date":"2018-06-15T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:25:26","slug":"factum-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/2018\/06\/15\/factum-est\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTUM EST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Jonathan looking clapped-out but smug at the end point, at 7.40pm on Friday\u00a0– too late to visit the museum, but roughly on schedule.<\/p>\n

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I’ll post more about the final 24 hours later, but I can’t cross the finish line without mentioning two lovely people I met this evening.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Lynn and Rick from the Tyne and Wear Active Persons’ Group of Parkinson’s UK had somehow got wind of what I was doing, and planned to ambush me (in a nice way!) at the end. I knew nothing of this, and unwittingly spoiled their plan by stopping for a 2-hour rest in my hotel in Newcastle before doing the last\u00a04\u00bd miles to Segedunum. Nevertheless, people wearing Parkinson’s tops can spot one another at 200 paces, so we caught up with each other on the quayside. I don’t think I let on, but I was close to tears at their kindness and encouragement.<\/p>\n

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With Lynn and Rick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An unexpected souvenir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And so it ends. Feet are really quite sore, but that’s nothing a long hot bath won’t fix. Home tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Thanks, everyone, for your overwhelming generosity and encouragement. I hope I haven’t let you down – no short-cuts were taken, but I had to abandon a couple of planned side trips because I was too tired, or arrived somewhere too late. Watch this space for a cleaned-up blog and a proper picture gallery in the next day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s Jonathan looking clapped-out but smug at the end point, at 7.40pm on Friday\u00a0– too late to visit the museum, but roughly on schedule. I’ll post more about the final 24 hours later, but I can’t cross the finish line without mentioning two lovely people I met this evening. Lynn and Rick from the Tyne … Continue reading “FACTUM EST”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordparkinsons.org.uk\/hadrian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}