Thats two (yes, TWO) perfect surf days with Bruce down at Wooly. Warm air, clouds to cut out the sunburn, right size waves, no wind and as they were work days in term time, ample access to the waves. I do think that I need to spring for a mini mal at some point though. I can ride my current board (7'0, pointy) OK but it just looked so much more fun ( Read more... )

No. 1 - I had a bowl of strawberries so large from my garden that I couldn't eat them all last night. And that was after taking the manky ones that the slugs and woodlice had had a pop at out to freeze pending some jam making. Happy me. Fortunately I have both the kids and my parents to help me eat the ones I will pick all this weekend ( Read more... )

The running club had a pub quiz last night which was fun. And just for 2 minutes I was the cleverest person in the world as they had a round all about the credit crunch. Mostly, though, it was just nice to sit in a pub (I STILL can't get over the lack of smoke in them) and eat nice food. And not be the cleverest person there ( Read more... )

I know, I shouldn't and its not a good solution but a tiny bit of me can't help wishing that the North Koreans wouldn't hurry up and make good on their threat to pick a fight with South Korea. You see, although this would be unpleasant, noticeably more so than the Iraq fiasco, it would at least get it over and done with.

These people are ( Read more... )

Right then. Now I've ordered some proper tri bike shoes with a single big strap rather than the silly fiddly dial that my current ones have, so I have about 3 weeks to learn how to do Andy's trick with them. I reckon it should be worth a bit since not only does it save the obvious time in transition but since I can to the swing-one-leg-over-and- ( Read more... )

1:17:04. Which wasn't that great to be honest ( Read more... )

Well, that was fun. 6 nights sleeping on my sister's sofa, 6 days looking at all the sights of Bermuda, getting around the island using a borrowed mountain bike, swimming to reefs to look at tropical fish etc ( Read more... )

I went to get some dollars as I am going to visit my sister in Bermuda soon and was checking the rates on the front of the travel shops. The last shop didn't have a board up so I went in to ask what the rate was. '1.36' comes the reply. Ok, says I, I will head back down the road and visit your competitor whose board said 1.39. so suddenly, the lass ( Read more... )

Aah, the first proper race of the season, where I got to wear my tri suit because I wasn't doing a relay. And a new best for 1000m pool swim of 17:50, so that was good. Now, if my knee can stop feeling sore by tomorrow, that would be even better. I'm supposed to be doing a half ironman length event in September and I could do without my knee ( Read more... )

3 days with the kids, 3 days of unbroken sunshine to have them outside enjoying. If I hadn't been late back from the Mendips today I was seriously considering doing a barbeque for them it was that nice. Hooray for UK weather ( Read more... )