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Tuesday night football – a wet evening in Wycombe
Last night I got an evening out with some friends from Southampton and went to see some football.
It was a pretty poor state of affairs to be honest. Wycombe’s home ground is shared with London Wasps rugby club, and you could tell by the state of the pitch. When the football hit grass it bounced [...]Feb 24th, 2010 | Filed under Personal -
Skiing in the Italian Alps
I’m fortunate to have some wonderful friends who decided that Tany and I needed to go on a skiing holiday with them. So, last week I learnt how to fly down the side of a mountain with a couple of skis attached to my feet and not die.
Day one was a bit shaky, with me [...]Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under Personal -
Back from Burkina – photos from the trip
I’m not going to write much now. We got back to the UK at 8am after flying overnight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. I don’t sleep well on planes so think I probably only got about 20 minutes kip during the trip – I’m now really struggling to concentrate and can’t guarantee that anything I would [...]
Jan 29th, 2010 | Filed under Personal -
Plan ahead and expect the unexpected
Very often we do an admirable job of dealing with normal. When things carry on, the same today as it was yesterday, we’re happy and can cope. Occasionally, though, circumstances combine and a situation occurs that isn’t routine.
We have a local recycling point. It’s about a mile away from home, so we store up the [...] -
Monday update
I don’t know about you but I’ve had a nice break. It was only one week away, but with the busyness of the week before I just didn’t have time to blog. My head is full of stuff, but it’s going to take time and effort to write and I just don’t have that at [...]
Sep 14th, 2009 | Filed under Personal -
Photos: Mount Washington and Maine
Jun 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Personal