Obituary to a Spider
This Black Widow Spider was probably born early 2007 and certainly died 29 November 2007. He lived on the wall at Checo’s bar, El Potrero Chico and died under the owner’s foot, probably due to crush injury.
Month: December 2007
Snow and Sun
Check out the snow in the background! Yesterday we got up early – still used to UK time – so we made our way to the Red Rock Loop Road, hitting the Visitors Centre just after it opened at 8am. It was a cold morning, but that didn’t deter us, so we started the loop …
Australia
The “Groundwater Quality” conference this year was held in Fremantle, Australia. So for slightly over a week I was in the midst of summer next to the Indian Ocean. The nature of conferences is that you get to sit inside a conference room for vast amounts of time, however we did get to look round …
Holme Bank Chert Mine
After a damp week in Derbyshire Saturday brought some very heavy rain, enough to scupper any distant plans we had of caving; either wet or dry. After a meeting on the Saturday night me, Marcus and Chris agreed to head over to Holme Bank Chert Mine on the edge of Bakewell for some practice and …
Lots of km and lots of m
Snow on the fells
El Potrero Chico
Terry and Vikki, together with Everett and Lucille from Canmore (Canada) met up to climb in El Potrero Chico near Monterrey in Mexico at the end of November, a time when the weather is particularly amenable to rock climbing around there. Terry and Everett take trip to the desert, not far from Hidalgo, the base …
Blencathra in the clouds
Vickie & I met up for a hike up Blease Fell and Blencathra. The forecast was not good, but we both wanted (and needed) to get out and get some fresh air. It turned out to be a ‘not bad day’ on the fells. Sleet and rain did not dampen the conversation, and with the …
Sisters in Town
Caroline and Saskia came up to the Lakes to enjoy the wonderful weather. It rained! Then it rained some more. We went shopping, spent lots of money 😀 and then had a lovely meal at Zeffirellis in Ambleside. We were surprised to find no meat on menu. I hadn’t realised that it is vegetarian. Hmmmm, …