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Despite being out of the water for two months due to hip problems, I managed to get four of my events into within the top ten Brtish Age Group Rankings. In two events I was ranked 5th in the country. After some Bowens therepy and rest I have started easy training again in the past […]
Oliver has a brother! Daniel was born early hours of Friday 11th Dec 09. He weighed in at 10lb 8oz. Congratulations Natalie and Stuart.
A special one week visit to Venice for 4 days and then to Florence for remainder of week. This was to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary and Sue’s 60th birthday. Very impressed with both cities but Venice was rather special. So much to do and see and not a car in sight. We are now […]
Following a virtual non active time on a lake in Reading and then a break in with some fittings stolen we are now going to move Amazing Grace our Wayfarer dinghy to Sheppey Sailing Club. A bit of tidying up over the winter and then it’s some mean sailing in the sea. Hope we have […]
Sorry about the lack of posts but couldn’t find an internet cafe anywhere! The tour was great- no mishaps but plenty of stories so in due course will put some anecdotes and stories together. We had a 3 day stay on the extreme south coast overlooking Morocco then we went to Cadiz, Arcos and then […]
Left the villa – all OK -2nd September. 3 nights in Granada. Alhambra palace was brilliant . Next day climbed Veleta – 2nd highest mountain in Spain – 3395 metres. Strenuous but fun!!!Set off for Ronda but clashed with biggest fiesta in year – no rooms available at all and streets so packed you could […]
We are now 3 weeks into 6 weeks holiday/tour in Spain. Ferry Portsmouth to Santender excellent. 2 nights immersed in Goya and Picassa in Madrid. On to the villa joined for 11 days by Stu Nat and Ollie, scorchio weather. chilling out now before heading off to Granada on Wed for 3 nights then to see […]
Team Amazing Grace did well in London Tr-iathlon Olympic Distance Team Relay yesterday. Overall time 2 hrs 34min Position 106 out of 406 Swim 1500m (Grace’s grandad Clive) 29.13 mins Bike 39 k (Grace’s dad Stuart) 1:11:49– he was faster than that as he put his bike shoes on after he had run over the […]
So that’s it, the end of my Presidential year. Handover to Lloyd last night. He presented his plans for the coming year and there is plenty for all of us to get involved with, I am sure it will be a great year. I am glad I have kept this blog, 80 posts in total. […]
It was great to able to present the Maidstone Alzheimers Group with £1000 yesterday at their weekly meeting. Several of their number had sponsored our tandem rideso it was a an opportunity to thank them also. Whilst there I met a young Maidstone based businessman named Jason who offered support for future events we may […]