Saturday night was J and Marie's engagement party at the local pub. Some good food and not so good karaoke saw us into the small hours of Sunday morning. Wedding plans are well on track now. They'll be married in Antigua on April 27th 2006.
Sunday saw the re-incarnation of my mountain biking career.... sort of. I used to ride a reasonable amount about 10 years ago but got lazy and hurt way too often. More bravado than skill you see. In a half-hearted attempt to fend off middle-age spread I gave my bike the once over and headed out to the hills. Of course there is no way that I am any where near motivated enough to do this alone so thankfully Paul had shown a keen interest in a bit of off-road action and we'd been discussing routes for some time. Griff and Rach made up the foursome as we headed to the Quantock Hills for our first taste of 'proper' mountain biking.
The route we chose was the 'easy' route from the June edition of MBR magazine - a short 8 mile loop. Our lack of fitness was immediately evident as we ended up walking the first 1 mile climb!
Apart from this setback, the scenery and the weather were great. Here's where we ate our lunch.
The comedy highlight was Griff losing his shoe in a bog... Paul and I literally had to dig it out - most amusing!
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Great Diary what a man u are gadget boy
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