Wednesday 30 December 2009

8 more entries

Only need another three to reach 100:


Amanda Butler
Charlotte Williamson
Dudley Butt
Mark Haynes
Richard Butt
Roisin Cummins
Rose Dugdale
Vivien Fathy

Monday 28 December 2009

5 latest entries

Carla Pierce

Gary Williams

Jon Mercer

Martin Crellin

Tiffany Bell

Friday 25 December 2009

Merry Christmas

Four new entries to announce on Christmas Day:

Craig Morgan
Mr Sean Beattie
Mrs Mandy Beattie
Terry Kelly

Wednesday 23 December 2009

11 entries in past week

I had become a bit bored checking the list only to find that nobody had bothered to enter so it was good to find a few new names had been added at last:

Chris Radcliffe
Clive Williamson
Darren Gorry
Fred Baker
Ian Lewandowskyj
Juliet Oates
Mark Sanderson
Matthew Williamson
Michael Oates
Robbie Breadner
Robert Faragher

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Facebook group

I'm not a Facebook user, but I am told a group has been formed for people thinking of entering the Parish Walk.

Entries resume again

Ellen Millichap

Gill Senogles

Nick Bradley

Sarah Bassett

Saturday 12 December 2009

65 entries to Friday

Charlene McGarry

Haydn Kenna

Thursday 10 December 2009

Only one entry yesterday

Oliver Browne


There are 62 now.

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Links to stats corrected

I was horrified to find out earlier today (when I checked to see if someone had ever been in the Parish Walk) to discover that all the links on the Statistics Page were broken.

I moved all the PDF files I created the week after the 2009 event to a folder called "2009" last week and changed all the links on the 2009 race site. But I forgot to change them on this year's site.

Fixed now.

I've also lost the StatCounter software - that's a job for tonight to reinstate.

3 entries on Tuesday

Ben Woodiwiss

Robert Rigby

Simon Barber

Tuesday 8 December 2009

Three more entries

Angie Aire

Jane Edwards

Suzanne Beardsmore

Monday 7 December 2009

3 entries on Sunday

Lee Bass

Peter Lovekin

Trish Lovekin

Sunday 6 December 2009

2 entries yesterday

David Payne

Paul Paterson

Saturday 5 December 2009

Entries reach 50

Abbie Corkish

Alan Gosschalk

Ali Mazzone

Chris Moore

Karen Inston

Mark Mcgrath

Yvonne Kelly

Friday 4 December 2009

As boring as it gets

After the panic to get the new site designed and published I have been continuing to tidy up.

In theory I should have started up with a completely new folder files containing all of the new site but in practice I cheat by copying the old folder and then adding in new files as and when required. But then I end with all sorts of files for which I can't remember their purpose.

So tonight I re-named all of the photos within the new site and republished them. Tedious stuff but it will help with the service I provide on the site in the long term.

It was almost as interesting as moving all of the pdf files with the stats after last years race to a different folder at lunchtime today - and then changing the links.

It made changing the links of the sponsors logos from www.scottishwidows.com to www.scottishwidows.co.uk quite interesting. Correcting the links to the route description and sponsorship form to include the version with the Parish Walk logo was truly exciting.

6 entries yesterday

Angela Bray

Kellie Haworth

Mark Hull

Natalia Richardson

Rob Annett

Sara Simpson

Thursday 3 December 2009

Only 3 entries yesterday

Andy Fleet

Anthony Ball

Pauline Clague

Wednesday 2 December 2009

A few modifications

I've been really knackered tonight and struggling to get things done. But I have managed thhe following:

1. Update all 12 page descriptions to show Scottish Widows Parish Walk. This is the description you see if you do a Google search (or any other search for that matter) and it was still showing Clerical Medical.

2. Updated the links to the 2009 results on the archive page - I had copied the link to the 2008 results and edited the text but not the link. This works correctly now.

3. Added a few details about Dermot O'Toole and his book A Walk Through Time to the Media page. It is going to be republished in 2010.

4. Added photos of Tim Glover and John Watterson the sports editors of Manx Radio and Isle of Man Newspapers respectively.

www.parishwalk.com/Media.htm

Entries in the last 24 hours - 34 so far

Angela Martin

Craig Rogers

Graham Greenwood

Ian Davies

Jane Hairsine

Jane Yippee Foster

Jill Hamlin

John Hotchkiss

John Staines

Katherine Faragher

Keith Button

Keith Green

Laura Hunter

Liz Vipond

Maria Coldwell

Mark Denton

Matthew Gregson

Michelle Ince

Pam Dunn

Pat Kelly

Paul Sykes

Phil Hancock

Samantha Moolman

Simon Starkey

Stuart Mullan

Susan Sumo Moore

Tony Dugdale

Tuesday 1 December 2009

Instant update

By the time I posted the list of the first six entries there were two more:

Samantha McLean
Iain Thomson

I wonder if we can get to 100 on the first day. Go on!

6 for the record

The first six people to enter the 2010 Scottish Widows Parish Walk were:

Roger Hammond Cave

Mark Hempsall

Stuart Mullan

Kevin Rowson

Carl Senogles

Geoffrey Watterson

Monday 30 November 2009

7 days for 7 months

I hope that you all find this website and blog helpful in the next 7 months.

The last 7 days have seen me put the website together in the nick of time - just an hour to spare.

I shall look forward to seeing the first entries when I get up tomorrow.

Murray