Saturday September 23rd – Day 1, Eurotunnel, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany And so the long awaited “big” holiday of 2017 rolled around and after much complicated planning we were off to spend two weeks (almost) meandering along the course of the Mosel (or the Moselle as the Brits call it), visiting castles, implausibly pretty little…
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Fitness 2013 – Anniversary Musings
It’s a year almost to the day since I had my reconstructive surgery on my ankle, and it’s most impressive how much better it is now. There’s some residual tenderness and pain in the back of my heel (but then again it’s only 4 months since the metalwork holding the bone in place was removed)…
Fitness/Life 2013 – Life Stuff
It’s been an “interesting” 8 months. As some people will know, we got back from Macau last November and were almost immediately hit with the news that Tony, my father-in-law had had a stroke. Cue lots of desperate rushing back and forth from the Midlands to Bristol, visiting the hospital, fighting the solicitors to get…
Fitness 2012 – Weight Loss and a New/Refreshed Strategy
Having finally decided – after looking long and hard at myself – that I really should shift the stone I’ve managed to gain while not being able to run anymore (and for the forseeable future) and try and shift one more after that, I’ve been messing about on a 1lb a week loss and not…
Fitness 2012 – First Cycle Ride of the Year – Go Me!
Towcester to Wood Burcote, Wood Burcote to Silverstone, Silverstone to Whittlebury, Whittlebury to the A5 and home via Waitrose. It was a glorious day for it and it’s got my plan to get my exercise levels back up to where they ought to be this year, despite not yet being fit to run. I must…
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