A speech from the Vice President of Bulgaria (!)

Folk Dancers have had enough

Official Photo

Reading 1 Man City 0

Nero exploiting "natural camoflage" - I assume the urban black cat evolved rapidly in response the launch of Mr Ford's Model-T "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

New Camera:Old Camera

A wet Thursday in Wales - M5-M6-M54-A458 to Dref Gerrig - it started raining as I passed IKEA...

A very rainy day in Barmouth

  

Barmouth... after amusements and before excellent fish and chips (it was still raining)

Next year's project just has to be an automatic gate opener!

Downhill Diggler Dirt Dawg - #2

 

Diggler Dirt Dawg - Extreme Downhill Training - Novice to Expert in a day 

Downhill Diggler Dirt Dawg - #2

 
Diggler Dirt Dawg - Extreme Downhill Training - Novice to Expert in a day 

Dref "Red Run"

 
The author shortly after completing first "Red Run" at Dref Gerrig - thanks to most excellent instruction 

It will end in tears...

The first-of-the-last - only five more South Wales peaks to go after Craig Y Fan Ddu (Cloud covered Peny Fan in the distance)

View toward Sugar Loaf from Waun Rydd - under the grey layer of cloud there was a very nasty brown smudge... very strong winds from the north... photochemical smog or just polluted air - and this is August - felt like November

The very last mountain... Allt Lwyd completes Southern Wales - it was rather windy on the ridge

Fairfor RIAT 2006

 

Really rather happy with this photo! 

Fairford RIAT 2006

 

Matti - Vulcan Bomber - Electrical Engineering Station 

Cadbury Welsh Walk 2006 - at 53N 4W - the full set of pictures are
here

A mornings cricket with Martin

Ascot - the pictures are here

I went to Stonehenge for the Solstice - the pictures are here

Twenty or so years ago - this was the route I took back to Bethesda - we started the 14 peaks at 04:30 but because of poor discipline and foul weather and poor visibility it was close to midnight before we started our descent. This was in the days before mobile phones - I wonder what our support crew were thinking? The third party that set out from the A5 to climb Pen-Yr-Olwen ended up spending the night in the refuge on Foel Grach.

Gyrn Wigau, Carneddau - lots of strangely silent and still seagulls here - big ones of at least two types. Perhaps they were quiet because they were hunting - I wonder what?

A view of Drosgl and Gyrn Wigau (left) from Bera Bach

Bera Bach (little haystack), Carneddau

Slone shelter on summit of "Llwytmor, Point NW" - SH680699. I wonder if this was used as some sort of lookout - it has a great view over the sea - and is probably the closest such point to settlements on the coast. I could see mountains on the horizon - in the direction of The Isle of Man - 75 miles away.

Unfortunately as really is the first bit of high ground up from the sea it was the site of an air crash. Descending towords Bera Mawr I cam across some aircraft wrekage - it was a Blackburn Botha - from 1943. You can read about it here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/howard.martin/William_Frearson.html

Yr Aryg, Carneddau

Carnedd Dafydd - Welsh 1000's Race

Foel Meirch - Number 30 (Carneddau) on the Moss List

Dduallt 662 m (2172 feet)

First Summit of the year...

Rhobell Fawr 734 m (2,408 feet)

It was very cold and windy on top - and while confirming visits to seconday peak I started to get hypothermia - sneaks up on you so quietly! 

The View From Titterstone Clee Hill

Harlequins orienteering event - navigation was quite a challenge - visibility poor! 

Trip to the Ukraine

(Above) Can't escape work even in Ukraine
(Below) Folks write wishes and tie ribbons on this bridge - hoping the wish will come true - what on earth the person who left the Cadbury Wrapper was hoping for...


Another post race picnic

A prize for Jennie

This gentleman - won H50 and (technically) died at the finish.
Medics got his heart going again and then rushed to hospital
But he checked himself out some hours later in time for the prizegiving and banquet

First of (many) toasts

The Russian Toast