Ten Years – 2014

After the euphoria of the Thames Path Challenge and my first RRR, I neglected my blogging until picking it back up in October of 2014. In the interim, both Sue (my other half) and I changed jobs. Firstly, I moved to work at a data centre in Redditch which was a bit too far away…

Ten Years – 2013

I was having a re-read of this blog, recently and realised that I’d been jotting down thoughts on walking, running and cycling for nearly ten years. My first entry was way back in 2013 when I started to document my journey to complete the 100k Thames Path Challenge. That first foray into blogging (originally on…

Penrhyndeudraeth

The doggies got another mile and a bit each this morning before work. At work, I continued the cottage search and found something near Porthmadog. My find is a little stone cottage on the outskirts of the scarily spelt Penrhyndeudraeth (pen-rin-dead-reth). The building is right next to the Ffestiniog railway and about twenty metres form…

Risotto

Up early with the dogs for a mile and a bit each. After work, I nipped into Morrisons for a few items for our evening meal. This evening’s meal would be Mushroom Risotto so I picked some woodland mushies, a bottle of dry Vermouth and some celery. The rest, I hoped, we had at home….

More Rain and Bloody HS2

After the briefest of lie-ins, it was out with the dogs for a couple of miles each before breakfast. With breakfast out of the way, Sue made her way to work and I was left home alone. I spent the morning pottering around including putting the Christmas boxes back in the attic for another year….