Me, Dave, Claire and David headed off for a swim in Rydal Lake straight after work.  It was wonderful after a morning of meetings and driving, and an afternoon of being hot and frustrated with people in the office.  I could have spent all evening in the lake and was too hot again by the time we'd got back to the car.  I think Dave and I will be ( Read more... )

I have started swimming to try and improve the strength in my broken arm as it's horribly weak at the moment. I went twice last week and have just been this lunchtime ( Read more... )

Dave and I have just returned from an impromptu wild swim in Rydal Water. It's raining, it's chilly but humid, the wind is whipping the trees around and I have just spent 45 minutes in a lake. I'm sitting here in a woolly hat as I got really chilled, but it was such fun swimming at dusk and sharing the lake with geese, ducks and the dogs ( Read more... )

We've had a really good couple of days this weekend ( Read more... )

Last night was unexpectedly LOL-tastic as Sasha, Paddy and James invited themselves round, we went out, got pissed in a rather good real ale pub, talked rude nonsense and then had a very, very silly random musical instruments session back at our house, accompanied by some rather fine Dalwhinnie whisky.  This included a legendary recital of Europe's ( Read more... )