The great escape

No, it is not my favorite movie, in fact I would have to say I have never seen it, despite its regular (read every public holiday in the UK) showing on TV.
I have been surveying the local landscape over the past couple of weeks, trying to decide which route would be the best to “escape” [...]

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Up, then down but not out!

Sums up my morning quite well. The plan was to get up and head out around 7AM for a ride, however HI had a really bad nights sleep and I was not too sure if it would be a joint effort or not this morning. Much to my amazement, we did make it out of [...]

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The Bone Collector is off to the Dark Side of the Moon

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A great mood lifter

I awoke this morning still seething over the fact the guy next door had managed to run into the side of my new car sometime yesterday afternoon. I have to say that I was very impressed by the fact that he left a note on the windscreen and confessed to his crime.
Being left to my [...]

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Why oh why???

No wonder they call this the lucky country - this is less than 2k’s away from our front door, and perfect for practising our “open water” swimming.
Today’s 30 minute session was spent swimming to specific pre-determined stops, so that we could try out our “sighting” techniques. It was quite fascinating watching some of the other [...]

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The year that was ….

It will be far easier to write a post about the last 12 months rather than try and remember what I have managed to do since my last post.
In short 2007 has been a huge roller coaster of events, from having a massive asthma attack in the C2S, to being promoted to MD, only to [...]

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