Armistice Day

Today, being Armistice Day, I went for a run to the Wellington Bomber crash site memorial in Lead Mines Clough, complete with poppy pinned to my top.  I do this every year on 11 November but usually I have to do it in the dark with a head torch, however this year I took advantage of my Wednesday working from home day and ran there with the aim of arriving at 11am for the two minutes silence.

I arrived at just after 10.50 and there was a group of three people already there.  A short while later, another man came along to pay his respects.

At 11am, I heard three different cannon blasts, marking the start of the silence.  Two minutes later, the three cannons sounded again.  I'm not entirely sure where the blasts had come from but am assuming Chorley, Bolton and do Horwich do anything like that or was the other one from as far away as Manchester?

At the end of the silence I ran back home again and the run itself was pretty unremarkable.

Total distance - 7.5 miles