TPS Photos

Another disability-related event took place today. This time at London's Battersea Park. for the charity Disability SnowSport. http://www.disabilitysnowsport.org.uk/

The weather was perfect this year and everyone appeared to be on really good form. This first shot below was taken from the park's bandstand with Santas as far as the eye could see.

I'm not sure if this was a case of sororal compassion or just laziness, but runner 1808 didn't seem to mind carrying her buddy. If you feedback and let us know your names I'm happy to edit the blog with the details. At the time of posting a few hours after the event, I was in the dark as to who was who though.

I did recognise this pair below though. The bloke Dave Shannon is one of the world's most accomplished and talented diatonic harmonica players (he does a pretty good job on Chromatic too) specialising in blues harmonica and founder of the band Bea and the Honeytones - have a butchers at http://www.myspace.com/beaandthehoneytones

The woman behind him in the image below is his beautiful and long suffering wife (aren't all wives long suffering?) Ange and mother of their twin boys. Dave and Ange now live in Finchley, but when I first met them, they resided in Willesden's fashionable Kings Road where Dave's Harp University was built in their back garden with help from yours truly and his brother in law Toby Jacobs - an extremely talented photographer whose work can be seen at http.www.tobyjacobs.com (I'm such a name dropper sorry).

Below are Lisa and Jeff. Lisa has participated in the Santa run every year since it started but this was Jeff's first running event in the red suit. They were both kind enough to slow down sufficiently for me to give them a card. I love these shots as they seem to convey the spirit of the event. It'll be on next year too hopefully, so keep your eyes peeled if you fancy a fun way of making some money for a great cause.

Below we have Laura Denham-Jones and her 9 month old son Julien. What is it with women and this multi-tasking thing? Julien could have stayed and watched the whole event alonside with his father Tim- but I guess the view was better from the buggy. Nice wheels Julien!