David celebrates his BIG 40 today !
We started celebrating on Friday lunchtime, in
the Horse and Plough at Braddan for a lovely meal
and a pint! Followed by a few drinks in the
Prospect in Douglas after work, then we dashed
home a prepare the rest of the food for a house
party with the Race Walking guests. Not before I
dashed over to the airport to pick up one of our
best friends from this site who has had a terrible
time recently, and she has throughly enjoyed the break.
We had a great party with close family and friends
at Scott's Bistro last night. David had a
brilliant cake with his race walking colours which
included the additional club as he has now
qualified himself to, the 'veterans'.
Some wonderful presents included a picture drawn
by fellow race walker of himself with all his
hobbies, bike racing, Everton football, cricket,
hill walking, a cat and not forgetting a takeaway
curry, its brilliant !
The Everton clock is clicking away towards the
countdown to the Manx GP now and still the bike
hasn't been started on !!!!
David is now relaxing enjoying his latest addition
to the video collection......TT 2003, including
that horrendous on bike crash with Milky !
Maybe we'll go for a swim in former Manx GP
riders pool later, this is Uncle Bob Dowty.

David has contributed some very well written articles in the 'heroes' section on this website,
including the trip in 2001 to Tallin.

Happy Birthday David
xxxx