I’m not feeling particularly like writing today so I’m bringing out something I’d prepared for just such an occasion. Prepare yourself for the dreaded return of:

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… so here’s a picture of a cow I took last week. I hope you enjoy it because that’s all you’re getting today. Bookmark It

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We now have the final lineup for our 78 mile sponsored walk in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust. Quite how I managed to persuade all these people to participate is beyond me. I suspect however it has great deal to do with the fact that my friends are a…

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I have a bit of a thing for zoos. I know that a lot of people feel they are cruel places, where animals are exploited for profit under a false venire of environmentalism. And to be honest I have a lot of sympathy for that point of view.  But I…

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For some reason Oli didn’t like the position in the team I had allocated him. And here I was trying to make him feel all special by giving him a unique role. Ah well, you can’t please all of the people all of the time. In an effort to make…

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Introducing the… Unfortunately no one guessed the name of the team correctly. I’m not sure why though, Chives seems the natural choice to me. Apparently at one point the Dallas Cowboys were going to go with the name too, but changed their minds at the last moment. If you look…

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College sports have never been as big in the UK as they seem to be in the States. Over here university sports teams are just thinly veiled excuses for the participants to consume twice their body weight in alcohol. It is very rare that they gather any support from their…

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There is a mouse in the room and it’s freaking me out. I can’t see it, but I know it’s there. I can hear it scrabbling away behind our shelving unit, eating my Muppet DVDs and chewing holes in Amy’s paint pots. A real man would move the shelves and…

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There are some people who will tell you there is a big list of essential equipment necessary for long distance walking. Maps, hiking boots, emergency rations, waterproof clothing; the list goes on and on. To those so called experts I say pish, piddle and balderdash. What do they know about…

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Like virtually every other blogger on the planet I’m participating in NaBloPoMo this month. Even though I’m normally a pretty prolific poster anyway I must admit that I’m finding coming up with a blog entry each and every day a little grueling. Especially as I’m simultaneously working on another top…

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