Bit of a quiet night fencing at ULU tonight. Seems it's last night of term or something so attendance was sparse. Upside was that we could run 3 full length pistes as a result and the epéeist population wasn't that diminished. Nice to see too that two of the novice intake have elected to take up epée. Key learning for the evening: go to enough ( Read more... )

Fun airsofting weekend.

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Doh. For the last several years, I'd had my parents and sister as named drivers for the car, for whenever they flew in. However, I've just discovered that taking the parents off knocked £200 off the premium straight away as neither had full UK licenses. Have left my sister on but, it seems that while she does have a full UK license, she costs more ( Read more... )

Careful what you wish for part 2 ( Read more... )

Maybe that wasn't such a smart move. It would appear my right arm wasn't quite as healed as I thought. Feels OK for most things but sudden extensions, like every time I needed to lunge or otherwise attack, brought sharp pains. End result: I got my butt kicked - Jo observed I clearly wasn't going all out as I normally did and wasn't exploiting my ( Read more... )

Had a great time with the usual geeky gossip and other fun at the Shakespeare Head. Even the Northern Line replacement bus service wasn't too bad, allowing me to stop by at Forbidden Planet and pick up comics including the latest issue of Defenders (Hulk gets shagged and worn out by Umar!) and the BSG magazine which looks very nice indeed. Also ( Read more... )

Well, this sucks. I have had to regretably conclude my arm is not yet back in good enough shape to go fencing tonight. Admittedly, with the Northern Line doing a fair impression of a Norwegian Blue today, I couldn't have gone to Poly anyway but there was still Saxon and Jo was going there as she can't make it to Poly in time on a Thursday ( Read more... )

Odd. A week and a half or so ago, I took an epée hit to my left thigh. Nothing odd about that but, given I don't generally bruise easily and even if I do, it doesn't usually show up much because of my skin tone, it was quite a surprise to note that there's still a big black/yellow blotch on my thigh. Must have been one Hell of a hit...

Having problems getting up in the morning? Want to be able to go from sound asleep to completely wide awake, instantly, with no grogginess whatsoever? Here's one method that works - get a bee or some other evil winged insect to sting you in the face in the morning. Of course, trick to set an alarm ( Read more... )

Huh. Went to the gym today. All was going well until the last stage, the treadmill. Somehow I managed to pull something in my right calf. As a result I've been stuck in the flat all day. Just me, Scully and Doggett... This is very annoying indeed. I need to go see a guy in Mongkok tomorrow about a reinforced gearbox for my AUG. That should be do- ( Read more... )