After some lush grub at Aqua and a great night out with chums I wasn't expecting to get a call out to work on the way home this morning...

and no new tape was required elsewhere... A better, less hectic day all round. Actually managed to get some work done. My calf muscles ar...

Talk about coming back to fires to fight on all fronts. The problems didn't stop coming in. Everyone more urgent than the previous. Wit...

But all good things must come to an end. I've hardly given a thought to the turmoil that is work during the last five days and I feel a...

The journey home was pretty good. The plane didn't crash and there were no delays - result. Feeling really knackered though. Going to s...

That was one of the hardest race I've ever run. 35km with 2850m of ascent. And me such an under trained, unfit lard arse. I very nearly ...

but it is the number of hours till the Mourne Skyline Mountain trail race. I have the route memorised - can you believe that a compass isn...

So Saturday's orienteering was a bit rubbish. To be fair to myself, it was really only two controls that did for me. One cost perhaps t...

Make it to the Orienteering Saturday. High Meadow. I like the area - the last time I was there I had f&(ked up by control number five.....

Lovely way to spend a Sunday. Another few hours spent traipsing though the woods of Trellech Common. The good news, the courses are - barri...

Finally got the heating fixed. The brand new shiny red expansion vessel is doing its thing - absorbing the expansion of hot water that is, ...

I've been seeing the water pressure in the boiler drop for a month or so but haven't been able - until now - to find where it was l...

That's Fan Fawr Saturday.... Didn't have a terrible run. Wasn't great either. At least I didn't feel ill this week. I too...

Bit of impromptu day off tomorrow - lot's of holiday to use rather than lose. Heading back over to Trellech to mark up more controls an...