The dive boat – click on to enlarge – note diver ascending up ladder on side of boat
I was determined to have a better day on the boat today.
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2/9/2009
Scapa Flow Dives
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3/8/2009
July was wet!
The river Wye close to Monsal Head after a wee bit of rain
The first two weeks of my holiday has involved me in complicated avoidance tactics to avoid getting wet. if I had two knees that worked I would have flown out of the country. I have though cooked some nice meals! To see all of the wetness click on the image.
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4/7/2009
More summer flowers
Yellow Iris Swallow’s Wood Click on the image to enlarge to full size.
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24/4/2009
Forgetting the essentials
Lynne decided to have a day off diving and I teamed up with Richard a young man from Wales, a potential medical student. Lynne took some good photographs.
Mike and Richard starting the dive, I forgot my wetsuit on the next dive!
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29/3/2009
Fashion is difficult to keep up with
Lynne getting dressed to go diving in 7 degrees centrigrade water
We had a couple of difficult days. Skills that might be easy in warm water with a thin wetsuit become very difficult in this temperature in a dry suit.
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24/3/2009
New Skills
After a Monday at work I did not expect to be learning the new skill of extricating yourself from this situation
To find out why and how
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21/10/2008
Sotherby’s at Chatsworth 08
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13/9/2008
Slaidburn Forest of Bowland
There are not many places in England especially close to Manchester where it is quiet on a sunny day at the weekend. The Forest of Bowland used to be one of those places. When I was cycling the summer before last I stayed at Slaidburn Youth Hostel and thought at the time it would be nice to go back there when the weather was nice.
lythe Fell Road – North of Slaidburn
I cycled up the this road with a man of a similar age who was getting a 50 mile ride in before lunch and before his grandchildren arrived for the afternoon. Makes you think….
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31/8/2008
The Phil and Friends Challenge Ride
The advert for next year, the 2008 version covered the same course
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16/8/2008
15/8/2008
We went for a walk in the forest
When you go for a pee in the forest you have to tell the inhabitants you are there. Lynne did and then asked me to go in to the undergrowth to take a photograph of the adder.
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11/8/2008
9/8/2008
Last ride in the Alpes and on to Brittany
La Roche aux Fees
For my last ride before going to meet Lynne I wanted something pretty, long but not too hard. From a colouring in point of view, yellow highlighter on map. The Alpe du Grd –Serre combined with the Col d’Ornon which I have done previously looked the best option.
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3/8/2008
Sandbagged
The Alp d’ Huez from the road leading up to Villard Notre Dame
Sun 3rd of August
I thought I would rest today but looking up at the hillside from the campsite I could see the road that had been recommended to me by an English cyclist that connects to the road that comes down from the Col d’Ornon.
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2/8/2008
Alpe d’ Huez, Col de Sarenne and Col de St-Christophe
Sea of cloud while descending from the Col de Sarenne
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