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The journal
Not sure how many more of these postsI can do! Every day has such amazing views and gorgeous weather 🙂 Today was the shortest so far only 15 miles walked although it was a record for ice creams consumed! since Woolacombe is such a holiday honey pot. Arriving their bought back memories of Nick’s first holiday in […]
One of my mottoes when travelling has been: Leave only footprints Take only memories So whilst walking across Woolacombe beach as part of my South West Coast Path trip I couldn’t resist taking the above photo. In fact one of my ambitions in 2000 was to walk around the coast of the UK as far […]
This was an Ian of a day (sorry Mr Corker couldn’t resist that). A totally superb walk in every way. Fantastic weather, excellent views , well kept paths and signposted plus bumping into Fiona the girl guide helped with the navigation to Great Hangman and beyond. I’m settled into the Harcourt Hotel in the centre […]
I had a corker of a day! I did the first two days of the South West Coast Path walk in one day including the additional strenuous bit. The GPS gave the distance travelled as 22 miles. with a vertical ascent of over 6000 feet. Started the day with a great breakfast at The Quay […]
After finalising my 10kg of packing it was a pleasant day of travelling on trains & a bus I arrived at Minehead in the late afternoon. I’m staying at The Quay Inn, enjoying it’s free WiFi. The South West Coast Way starting sculpture is about 50 metres away and my room overlooks the sea, all […]
Tomorrow should see me venturing of to try and walk the 630 miles (1008Km) and apparently 114931 ft (35031 m) of vertical height on the South West Coast Path. So should be interesting especially in the foul weather at the moment. To honour the occasion I’ve purchased yet another pair of Scarpa Terra GTX boots, about […]
Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the […]
After last night’s epic (by Cambridge standards) 4″ of snow. The Cambridge Rambling Club A group walk around Histon was cancelled so Sally & I met up with Jill at the usual starting place in Harvey Road and concocted our own walk up to Coton (where we bumped into the B group) then across to Grantchester for […]
Having just read or skimmed Mark Zuckerberg’s letter in the regulatory filing to make Facebook a public company. I thought it would be fun to do a Wordle on his public letter about Facebook. here it is. Just love our the word People (41 mentions) stands out! In fact the words in numerical order, from […]
Here’s a bit of a review of Sleepcycle, Fitbit & Zeo as ways of monitoring your sleep activity. It has to be said at the outset that I have never suffered from a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep 🙂 My only problems are my nocturnal ramblings to take a pee due to my […]
