The first week back at work wasn't as traumatic as I expected, everything was largely under control and, indeed, you could say I wasn't missed at all.  Which is fine by me!

To date I have been recognised by four separate people or groups of people following our appearance on Tonight's The Night.  It is great for the ego.  The first people to recognise us were when we were still on holiday.  A lady came up and said "did I see you on telly last night?"  It turns out they recognised the children!

Last Saturday there was some whispering and pointing when we finished our run at the Lock 27 pub on the Clyde Canal and this Saturday a gentleman on the train, who claimed he didn't watch the programme, said it might have been on and he might have spotted me.

The final "spot" was by the two ladies who run the local garage.  It turns out they have told all the customers I was on and they offered me a free car wash.  I politely declined as we had a shower in the house.  They didn't find it funny.

All things wobbly are going well.  We have reached the £50,000 mark this year with our biggest fundraising events still to come.  This weekend it is WobbleAid in Donegal (hopefully with enough beer this year) and then the walk, the Banquet and the Chicago Marathon in rapid succession. 

My speech to the World Parkinson Congress is finished.  I spent last Wednesday with the speechwriter Max Atkinson in Bristol.  We worked on my delivery and how I lay the speech out on the page.  It is amazing how simple things like displaying the text in a single column, like a newspaper, makes something more readible.  You then have space to make notes down the side reminding you to look suitably miserable at the appropriate points.

The next task is to write my speech for the banquet.  This is an altogether more tricky affair as we have advertised the banquet as having "no dull speeches".  Worse still, it probably has to be funny.  This will be more challenging.

I think I'm going to have to up my meds again, running is becoming more painful in my foot from Dystonia.  It is a trifle disconcerting.  We have signed up for the Polar half marathon in Tromso in January and are looking at the Barcelona and Paris marathons at the start of the year.  In Glasgow, we refer to cold weather as being "Baltic".  I was talking with Geo Kelly today and he was wondering do people in Tromso describe good weather as being Baltic?

Finally laugh of the week belongs to Mrs Hamill and her mastery of Engrish (see earlier Blog or brog).  When Tony informed her that the Hong Kong business man, Kenny Huang, had withdrawn from the running to be the new owner of Liverpool she said...

"That's a shame, we won't hear the Kop sing "You'll never wok arone!""