Swimming – Smtfhw's Travels

Food 2018 – 185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Café, The Ganges, Towcester

11th February to 18th March 2018 – 185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Café, The Ganges, Towcester We’ve been doing a fair amount of local eating again with the start of 2018 and have revisited some old favourites as well as test running some new entrants to the local restaurant scene. With the town growing rapidly…

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 – 10 Week’s Since Surgery

Well, my ankle is still a bit stiff – and a bit sore on the outside along the more complicated wound site – but it’s moving well in most directions, and I have successfully walked from bed to bathroom and back several times now without the ski-boot contraption to protect it. I am therefore optimistic…

Fitness 2012 – Ankle Progress and Weight Loss

Well, it’s almost three weeks now since the cast came off and I can’t believe how much progress I seem to be making. At the weekend the rebuilt bits of tendon and ligament were giving me an annoyingly hard time, cramping, but some added salt with dinner on Sunday and Monday seems to have sorted…

Fitness 2012 – Ankle Operation Latest

Well, it’s now 8 weeks and 1 day exactly since Professor Ribbans operated on me to rebuild my right ankle (Posterior Tibial Tendon Reconstruction and Calcaneal Osteotomy, Spring Ligament Reconstruction) which basically means that I have had the snapped tibialis posterior tendon attached to the digital flexor tendon that holds my big toe on, the…

Fitness 2012 – Things I Wish I’d Known BEFORE Surgery…

That the act of getting about on crutches might have been so much easier if I’d done a whole lot more crunches (for the abs) and lunges (for my thighs). I am however extremely grateful for 11 months of triathlon club swim training because oh boy do I need that upper body strength right now….