On yer bike!
Nicky and Carolyn biked to (more…)
Donington 16/04/2012
Went to Donington today! was brilliant. Doug and Jude’s neighbor is a flag marshal there, and managed to get us some tickets to the BTCC plus support classes. We got up at the crack of sparrow fart and watch the first lap of the Chinese GP, then drove the hour to the track. Had a brilliant day sitting at the top of the hill at Goddards chicane (was short track) and could see 70% of the track. Jude and I wandered around a bit, and we found a tent were I raced (more…)
Water Dogs
Dermot came down for the weekend and did some video of the dogs swimming in Lake Te Anau:
Whistler 2012
On our way to Hong Kong to meet Beth and Tom, Jedi, Ela and Kiah, Vivien and I stopped atWhistler for 5 days skiing. The weather was not good for photos until the last day when we had glorious sunshine and skied in knee deep fresh snow. There is now a gondala between the top of Black Combe Mountain and Whister Mtn. We took advantage of this to ski in some of our favorite areas on both hills on one day. The gondala is about 4 km long and 1500 ft above the valley floor and gives spectacular views. This link will take you my Google album. There are no captions but the ones with funny reflections and wires were taken from the gondola.
The five days was tiring and we only realised how big this ski area is when on one day we covered 7km from the top of the hill to our appt. We mad e good use of the hot tub some days to ease our aching legs.
My back stood up to the skiing though on one day I got hit in the back by an out of control boarder and literally knocked out of my skis! He was very apologetic and I was not seriously hurt.
The Wall
On Monday we went to Auckland to see the “The Wall” performed by Roger Waters.
It was absolutely amazing.
Photos:
Douglas @ The Wall
We have probably spoilt (more…)
Messing about in boats….
….well, one boat.
Nicky had four days off over her birthday weekend. It is likely to be the “calm before the storm” as she looks like being very busy over the next couple of months, so we decided to get away for a couple of days.
Mavora is handy, beautiful, and dogs are welcome. We borrowed a large tent from Tim and Jo, and packed everything into, onto and behind the car, including dog cage, bikes, canoe, kitchen sink (more…)
Christmas 2011 New Zealand
Merry Christmas.
pictures will appear during the day at :
https://picasaweb.google.com/viewAlbum?uname=110509327179092739877&aid=5689659838531082577&start=0
Guess what Douglas got for Christmas (Gethin got one too) (more…)
Karting
I am back into karting again after a supposed to be short break from it, but what turned out to be a three year break.
Dad sold my kart without telling me and then happened to mention it to someone in conversation, and as you can imagine, was rather shocked by it. He then told me we were going to have a short break whilst he looked for a new kart.
On my birthday he gave me a small a5 very official looking (more…)
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