View from our Christmas Eve walk

Presents under the tree

Launching the kite

Getting ready to go

Geoff heading out to sea

Your epic 40 and 25 hour train journeys makes our Christmas trip to Devon seem like a short excursion, it being a mere 4 hours away…

Shame you didn’t take a video of the epic pizza hut dancing for the enjoyment of fellow bloggers.

Things are pretty quiet back here in blighty. That is, apart from the hoards of crazed shoppers rushing around desperately trying to purchase ludicrous amounts of presents. Mercifully, due to our “secret santa” regime, I’ve been spared the worst and actually completed most of my shopping relatively early.

Work Xmas meals were good. Food at the Half Moon nr Knaphill was excellent and the Lloyds evening had live music from Sera Golding & The Men In Black, who were most skilled.

Hail Jul

Have you encountered drive mode? It seems to do exactly the same as Softick Card Export II, but without a fee of $15.

Actually, on closer inspection is seems that they didn’t include it on the TX, but it seems are though if you can find the files, you can transfer them over to the TX and it should work. I’ll have a look tonight and see if I can email you the files.

hail Jul,

Just to clarify:

Flight	BA0199
Operated by	British Airways
Departing from	Heathrow (London) Mon 4 December 2006, 21:30
Arriving at	Mumbai (Bombay) Tue 5 December 2006, 11:40 (Local Time!)
Number of stops	0
Flying duration	8hrs 40mins
Aircraft type	Boeing 747 jet

Geoff and I went windsurfing/kitesurfing yesterday. First, we headed down to west witterings to take advantage of the lagoon at low tide. As we arrived we noticed some signs saying that whilst windsurfing was allowed during the off season, for kitesurfing you had to be a member all year round. Ignoring this sign, we decided to head further up the beach to avoid anyone complaining. However, as soon as we’d set up, along came a goon on a kitesurf to tell me that I wasn’t allowed. After some discussion, we decide to head to the satanist-free east wittering.

It was a bit choppy, and absolutely knackering, but really good fun. I got one really good run, zipping over the waves and picking up quite a bit of speed. I think i’m slowly getting to grips with the new kite. I’ll post some pics later as T took a couple of photos.

Unfortunately, after getting out and packing everything away, I developed some sort of seizure in the lower back and have trouble bending over. Looking at myself in the mirror this morning I seem to have developed an S shape in the spine similar to what Dod had recently when he pulled something in the back whilst planting leeks or something. Any exercise suggestions, Dod?

Rio out on his first walk

Stickle tarn, raining

checking out the view

On the way down from a freezing Helvellyn