With 2016 just around the corner, thoughts turn to the new year and what it may bring. Hopefully, it will bring great joy, health and wealth but don’t hold me to that! Walking-wise, I’ve got the biggie in May – namely the Dorset 100. I’m going to have to start training in earnest (wherever that…

Slight change to the usual shift pattern (something to do with Christmas) means that instead of my 4 day shifts, I’ve got 4 nights instead, finishing on the morning of Jan 1 2016. Anyway, I managed 16 laps at work last night or technically this morning before getting home to my bed. After a few…

New Camera After a lazy Boxing Day, I was up with the larks on Sunday (assuming that larks wake up around 7 o’clock) and ready to try out the new camera and socks. For footwear, I decided to utilise my Scarpa Goretex shoes which are slightly big requiring 2 pairs of socks – the next…

I awoke on Christmas Day to discover that Santa had been, so I must have been a good boy. Before the rest of the household were up, I nipped out for a few miles to blow away the Crimbo cobwebs. I crossed over the oddly deserted M6 to Water Orton clocking up a nifty 3.3…

Rushing headlong into Christmas, I had to spend all my free time on finishing a little project I’d started a couple of months ago. Sometime ago, I picked up a partly completed model train layout which I intended to finish for one of my train mad grandsons. I had the track laid, all the buildings…