Spent a pleasant couple of hours in the sunny area at the rear of the house watching the Red Arrows flypast for this mornings Great North Run.
A few press helicopters hovering above as well but nowhere near as interesting as the Red Arrows.
The event was most noteworthy because Mo Farah won a record fifth Great North Run in a course record of 59 minutes and 26 seconds with New Zealand's Jake Robertson 31 seconds back in second.
London Marathon champion Vivian Cheruiyot from Kenya won the women's race for a second time in three years.
David Weir set a new course record to win the men's wheelchair race for the seventh time, with Martyna Snopek taking the women's race.
More importantly though were the 57,000 who ran in the event, almost all of whom were running to raise money for charitable causes
