The last time I ran a 10K run was in aid of Freedom for Nicaragua, so you can calculate it was a long time ago. 25 years ago to be precise. I did two runs that year, one in Brixton and one in Hyde Park. Since then - nothing.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
10K
The last time I ran a 10K run was in aid of Freedom for Nicaragua, so you can calculate it was a long time ago. 25 years ago to be precise. I did two runs that year, one in Brixton and one in Hyde Park. Since then - nothing.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Aberdovey 2
The dog got a lot of walks on the beach and in the dunes. We all played on the putting course with little quality but much fun. Rowan and I went a great bike ride that included lunch at the Talyllyn railway station at Abergnolwyn, and a couple of good hills.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Aberdovey 1
The Press have put an article about the exhibition in today http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/exhibitions/9167724.From_The_Wolds__Grays_Court__York__1_to_31_August/ hope
Thursday, July 28, 2011
from the wolds
only 4 days to go....
from the wolds
new photographs by simon palmour
A series of monochrome works that capture the strange world of the Yorkshire Wolds.
Presented together with abstract textural images on canvas and paper.
Grays Court
Chapter House Street. York YO1 7JH
10am – 6pm 7 days a week
Monday August 1st to Wednesday August 31st 2011
You are cordially invited to wine, canapés and the Private View
on Monday August 1st 6pm to 9pm
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Skomer
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Colby
This National Trust garden at Colby http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-colbywoodlandgarden was 15 minutes walk away from the cottage we were staying at. The cafe was particularly welcome when we were on our bikes, as it was at the bottom of a 17% hill, for which you needed every bit of energy you could get your hands on.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Beach Life
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Pembroke
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Palmour Churches
Friday, July 22, 2011
Skomer
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Pembroke
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Cheese
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Great Yorkshire Show
Rowan and I went to the Great Yorkshire Show yesterday http://www.greatyorkshireshow.co.uk/html/home/ . It is a truly massive affair with livestock, tractors, shops [including every supermarket chain trying to "out-locally sourced" each other, cheese etc. It reminds me of the Lancashire Show that has died out, as has the Royal Show, so the Yorkshire one is now the biggest in the country. A great experience, but not one I will need to repeat for a while.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Small Copper
Monday, July 11, 2011
Holmfirth Tri
There was a chance that Rowan could have been selected for the national triathlon championships so she raced in Holmfirth on Sunday, she did brilliantly, came second, finished ahead of her "rival" for the slot representing Yorkshire, but due to the bizarre way of calculating the results over the series of 7 events, just missed out. She is very disappointed.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Speech Day
Saturday, July 09, 2011
More Marston
Friday, July 08, 2011
Play that funky traffic cone
Rowan was doing creative arts at school this week [what are uncreative arts by the way?] - this was not met with much enthusiasm until she told us she was playing a traffic cone with her French Horn mouthpiece as part of a recycled orchestra [ this included an ironing board, bins and drain pipes. Great noise.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Marston Moor
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Alder
I have spent the last 2 days at Woodbrooke Quaker Education centre in Birmingham. Friend Rob has set up a virtual consultancy company, called Alder, to which I and a number of other freelance specialist social and health care consultants have been invited to join. The company is virtual in that we will remain free agents, but may work for Alder on projects [which we might develop ourselves.] We met up at Woodbrooke to sketch out how it will all work out. Looks good so far; we will see how it goes.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Hobby or Peregrine
Monday, July 04, 2011
Henley
Danielle's friends from the US, Tim & Elizabeth were over to watch their son Jameson, cox his schools boat at the Henley Regatta http://www.hrr.co.uk/. So Danielle went down to watch on Friday. They won their race, then, amazingly, go through to the final on Sunday, dispatching Eton en route. They lost in the final but did well to get there. Danielle had to buy a dress in Henley, as she needed one to get into the enclosure.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Wedding
Friend Adrian has got married to Kath. They had a party to celebrate yesterday afternoon / evening. We all had a great time.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Le Tour est Arrivé
The Tour de France starts today. Always an exciting part of the year for me. I remember being at school and reading about Eddy Merckx winning every year with some interest. Then I started reading about it in the early 80s, watching brief snippets on ITV World of Sport; 5 minutes and a week late, and getting hooked. Whenever I could I would get into Soho to buy an Equipe and an espresso and read the in depth coverage in that great French paper. This was complemented by the Mirroir de Cyclisme, a fantastic monthly French magazine now sadly defunct. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroir_du_cyclisme