Easter Saturday

Arriving at the Quays Food Fair via the locks and dry docks added a cultural element to our morning. Luke came away with a didgeridoo and we secured cheeses and wobbly whisky glasses! Bright periods  in the afternoon for a bike ride too.  

Cofton Park

My final fling as a 'serving' officer involved a short trip to Birmingham and then a long, fast, muddy 12km cross country course with Team GlosPol. Staying in the top half of finishers, running with my training pal Pete, no rain and being less stiff than usual afterwards, made it a good milestone in a less-than-glittering running career. My minor contribution to an excellent men's team performance was a bonus. 

Beautiful Days

Despite cold air temperatures, when the sun comes out - who cares?

Where The Wind Blows

It's still blowing a gale outside and the windchill makes it feel 10 degrees lower than the paltry 3 registering on the Celsius scale. A week in a great apartment in Falmouth provides the opportunity to take stock away from the distractions of home and enjoy sea vistas and conversation on warm evenings in. Watching from the window: Masts swaying in Port Pendennis and the weather vane spinning on a nearby roof. Decent head high waves were breaking on Gyllie Beach this morning. 

Gap Years

Backpack around The World, Become a MEP intern or learn art history in Florence? I haven't decided yet. What a helpful book I found: It says "now is the best opportunity you will ever get to chase a dream, do something outrageous, extraordinary, fulfilling, and explore The World........... It's the perfect time to go out and meet people outside your postcode....... People who take a gap year usually emerge more mature , self-confident and focused, or at least with a bit more to talk about. Well, OK, let's do it!

Time To Begin My "1 Life" Blog

I wanted to begin my One Life blog at the right moment. This feels like it: 30 years completed in my first career, a meal out tonight with colleagues to celebrate and a real sense of exciting new adventures starting. The blog will define itself regardless of my intention to keep it more reflective and diary descriptive than previous attempts. Today it rained; the sort of drizzly annoying type of precipitation that comes and goes all day. It failed to annoy me though: A roaring log fire in the workshop, kettle warming on it, toast on the embers and progress on the picture that has been eluding me for so long. This is it, the start of the rest of my life: Live it!