One and a half rolls of bubble wrap (these rolls are 750mm wide by 60m long!) has been cut up into make-believe-or-maybe-not-feathers and these have been attached to the skeleton with hundreds of cable ties. The feathers have then been glued into something like the right position and sprayed with grey primer plus gloss black (main body) and gloss white (tips of tail and wings). A special transport box has been made that just fits inside my car (OK my nose is on the windscreen) and the ostrich just fits inside the box (Russian doll-like). Hopefully all logistics of getting it down to London for Sunday morning are in place and I’ll be on the start line raring to go. Hoping that the weather cools down a little else I could be cooked insidethis thing…
Guinness World records seem to be saying that I can go for a new worldrecord (“fastest marathon as a three-dimensional life-like creature weighing more than 20 pounds”) so that’s great. I will most likely aim for a time of 5hrs.
Bob Johnson