Having a laugh in Welshpool whilst running 800 miles!
Jon Doolan, from Llanfyllin, featured on MyWelshpool when we caught up with him during his 800+ mile joke relay from Land’s End to John o’Groats. He completed the run in his six-week school summer holiday, telling and hearing jokes along the way.
His mission was to bring a smile to Britain’s face after two years of Covid struggles, and his adventure is now captured in a his book called Miles of Smiles: Finding Britain's Funny Bone.
He will be on hand to sign copies of the book at Welshpool library this Saturday from 11am-noon, when he will also read snippets.
“It was an incredible journey,” said Jon. “I was blessed with wonderful weather and cursed with unrelenting shin splints and blisters.
“The kindness of all the strangers I met along the way was really humbling, from all the people who gave me jokes to free breakfasts and beds for the night. It really was a once in a lifetime experience.”
When asked what his favourite joke was, Jon had this one for us: “Did you hear about the man who invented the knock, knock joke?
“He got a Nobel prize.”
MyWelshpool joined a long line of joke tellers that stretched from one end of the country to the other when Jon ran through Welshpool on his way north. We won’t reveal what our joke was, but it features in the book!
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