#270 food

Found a book on the shelf at work today. The Paddling Chef. mmmmm. I've always struggled with getting good food when I go camping, maybe this will inspire.

#269 river

Two days in a row on the water. What's that all about? River Tay Dunkeld to Caputh this morning. Awesome Autumn day today. Sunny but a bit windy, thankfully going in the right direction. Lots of fisherman and they were all very polite apart from one who I swear still hasn't seen me! Ah well.
Two hours on the water including a stop for a brew. Very nice.

#268 island

Went out for a wee paddle this afternoon. Went to little Loch of Clunie less than 10miles from the house.
There is a wee island on the Loch where I had my lunch and tried a spot of fishing.
On the island (formerly a crannog) in the loch stand the remains of Clunie Castle, a tower house of the Bishops of Dunkeld. The last pre-Reformation bishop, Robert Crichton, passed the property to his near relative, Robert Crichton, Lord Advocate of Scotland. His son James, the notable Scottish polymath better known as the Admirable Crichton, spent his childhood there.
There you go a bit of wiki history for you.

oh and here are some pics.

#267 team GB

Team GB is still in full effect in our house this morning!

#266 floods

Lots of flooding in the UK but yet again Perth seems immune to any crazy weather. Wet and windy here but no more than any other usual September.

Pity there was none of this!

 or this.

These pics were taken a few years back but reminders of good times on the play wave just 10mins from our house!

#265 stoves

Been deciding on a stove this week. Think we are going to go with the Cove 2. What do you think?

oh and 100 days to go till this blog a day is done!

#264 coffee n cake

Nice surprise today at work. Ciaran brought in birthday cake. Awesome cake and coffee to go with it. mmmmm

#264 customers

I know I know the customer is always right, but for just a few cases can we disagree with that?

I'm not sure whether it is these tough economic times or what, but customers are getting worse, they seem to think they are allowed to abuse you! It is not always our fault that a supplier can't get an item too us and no you do not deserve compensation of more that half the amount of the cost of the product you are buying!

We do not have to sell anything to you that we do not want to and we do not have to discount!

rant over.

#263 pain

Back pain is the worst. It slows you down. Some days you think you are getting better then the next day it bites you. Today was one of those days. Sore from when I got up.
Was funny seeing Lizzie dancing like a ballerina from her bath to bed though. That made my day.

#262 country roads

Another 15 miles ticked off today before my good friend Craig Wilson turned up with his family. It was great to catch up with him and meet his knew son Lochlan.

#261 deelivery

550 miles up and down to Stockport today 12hrs since leaving the house I'm home again. I saw two smashed up cars causing queues thankfully I didn't get stuck in them.
Nice to see the other shops. There all looking good.

#260 vans

Been looking at vans. More space and lots of options, seats, stoves, kit store. Problem is what about offroad? Then I came across this!

#259 crazy kids

Spent the day with the crazy kids. Rhyme Time singing and dancing and lots of fun.
Lots of food consumed too.

#258 recovery

So it was a long weekend working for Flair Event Staffing. We got back late last night, I drove the last hour after Paul just about fell asleep at the wheel.
I got involved with some of the event management on the Sunday which was good to see the inner workings of the Coast to Coast event. Closing the course and making sure the competitors are safe and still having fun.
It was however a long weekend with only about 5hrs sleep on both Friday and Saturday night. I am probably not as tired as some of the competitors.
Thanks Paul for the opportunity to get involved.

#257 long day

Will tell all tomorrow! Night Night. Almost anyway still 30mins or so away from home.

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#256 coast to coast

Day one done. Set up from 5.30am ish and I ended up at a bridge marshalling for a bit then I ended up at the kayak section. Kitting people up and sending them off on a 1mile paddle.
Fun day watching tired racers battling with the wind most of the day.


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#255 coast to coast

Just about to leave to go to the Coast to Coast event from Nairn to Glencoe. I'm not competing before you ask. I'm going to help my mate Paul who's company provides the marshals for the event. Last year I was there as support driver for Phil who is not competing this year, so it'll be good to see it from another angle.
We'll see what the weekend brings. Stay tuned.

#254 skip

Most of today was spent skipping rubbish. It was strange throwing out some from my childhood but it needed to be done.

#253 escape

Getting away from the building works today. 25 mile ride from the house. Dodging the rain cloud I managed to circle round it for the hour and forty minute ride. Got a bit of drafting from a digger up one of the last hills letting me stay at 19 mph up the incline.

#252 autumn

Real Autumn feeling day today. But still plenty of time to play outside. Great day playing with the girls.
Temp has definitely dropped when the sun is not out and when there is no wind.

#251 colour

A wee drive about today on the way home from swimming while kids slept to get some inspiration for colour and style of the new extension.
Green, Grey or Blues?
mmm decisions.

#250 dr who

Back on our screens with the current 7th series of the new look edition. Pretty sure I liked it when I was younger and I am enjoying Matt Smith as the current Dr.

#249 butterfly girl

Party time today so Lizzie got some face painting time. Was sunny too. Probably hotter than June!!!!

It has been a rubbish summer for weather.

#248 20 miler

A 20 mile ride this afternoon after the sun came out. It was quite warm out there. Nice extra circuit on what I did last week. oh and a found a cool couple of aps to play around with pictures. I should have found it by now I know.

#247 launch

New Range Rover launch today in London. What was wrong with the first one? Less computers in that!

#246 progress

Back home after a few days away to see the building progress. Nice to see some concrete in the ground.


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#245 happy birthday

My beautiful wife turn 30 with 10 years experience today. Happy Birthday loverly!


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#244 you know

When you are at an exclusive hotel when there is a float plane on the loch outside your balcony and a helicopter lands guests on the front lawn.
Living the James Bond lifestyle for one more night!


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#243 away

Bit of monkeying around today then off to Cameron House Hotel for two night. Pesky float plane landed on Loch Lomond right outside our room!


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#242 holiday

Two weeks holiday starts now!


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