During our weekend visit to Hull to see my folks, we took a day trip to Skegness and up the coast past Anderby Creek (which was beautiful) and up to Mablethorpe. In Skegness I spotted this Walk-thru McDonalds – looks like it was originally built as a drive thru.
How about this for reliability. Our TiVo has been running more-or-less non-stop for 9 years. I was setting up a recording last night and we received our first ever proper error…. with hex and everything.
TiVo still rules.
When doing a recent check on all the blogs at Brighton Bloggers, I spotted this message at the Brighton and Hove councillors site. Amongst other things it says
“During the six week period prior to local and general elections, there is a ban in place on publicising the work of councillors to unfairly influence votes. Because of this, all of the pages and councillor blogs on this website are to be temporarily suspended until after the elections have finished.“
Since Jim broke his wrist, I haven’t been to the climbing wall, and I’ve missed it. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across information that there is a boulder park in Hove Park, and so today we went for a cycle ride to take a look.
It is about 3 metres high and probably about 12 metres long with areas ranging from scramble, to slight overhangs. We spent half an hour there climbing, traversing and doing the odd scramble. I am really impressed to have something like this so close, and available for free. I’m hoping to start visiting on a weekly basis to have a play.
Unfortunately, one of the party we went snowboarding with last weekend broke his wrist when he landed on it 🙁 (apparently a frequent novice snowboarder injury)
On Monday evening it looked like:
It now looks like:
More photos
We spent a very pleasant long weekend in Spain, managing 2 happy days snowboarding at the Sierra Nevada. A lack of snow lower down the mountain, but good fun none the less. The Sierra Nevada resort is excellent for beginners and intermediates, but lacks (at least at this time of the year) any really challenging terrain for us.
And whilst on the subject of snowboarding, this is an excellent video clip on how to ride a chair lift.
Jim and Lucy had shown interest in trying snowboarding, and as they own a property in Southern Spain the Sierra Nevada seemed like a good choice.
As beginners this was almost the perfect resort for Jim and Lucy as the Borreguiles area is really well set out with 6 different green runs served by 3 different lifts. We spent a couple of hours getting them started before heading off to see what the resort had to offer us. There wasn’t a lot of challenging terrain available (some areas were closed due to lack of snow or wind) but we had fun none the less.
Favourite run: maribel down to the base
Rod, Jane and Freddie! And some other people…. You too can play spot the “celeb” with the iTunes video.
This evening we wanted some quick, but tasty food, and so decided to give Pompoko, a newly opened Japanese cafe in Church Street, a try. It has a counter service, and the food was delivered really quickly. Richard won on his choice of main course, having the Oyako Don (Soya poached egg with fried chicken) which was really lovely. I opted for the Pork Shouga Yaki Don (Pork marinated with honey, ginger and soya sauce) which was tasty and cooked to perfection, but just not as flavoursome as the Oyako Don. They do a takeaway menu as well, and I can see that this could become a bit of a regular “quick stop” for us.
So, since I last mentioned climbing I’ve progressed well. I finished the course, having a futher 2 sessions, both of which were led by the excellent Ross who taught really well. I’ve continued to attend every week, and so Wednesday evenings will found me in the bouldering area progressing. This evening I had the opportunity to watch a couple of excellent climbers climb elegantly on routes that I’m troubled with. My upper body strength is improving, as is the strength in my fingers but I still have a long way to go to be able to climb with the grace and precision that I’ve seen – still progress is progress and every week I’m managing to achieve more difficult routes.
