Boris’ return to the rock…
Month: July 2011
Botterill’s Slab
Once upon a time…
Jersey
I have spent the last 11 weeks working in Jersey. For our international readers, this is a small island (9 miles x 5 miles) closer to France than England. Jersey isn’t actually part of the UK, but it is a “possession of the Crown”. In other words, Jersey has its own tax and legislation, but …
A white weekend
Running Hadrian’s Wall
On Friday I was, in a very minor way, part of the support team for “Fast Howard” (my name for a member of my running club), who was running the whole of Hadrian’s Wall in a day – all 84 miles of it. To complete this feat he had carefully planned every detail, including a …
Saved by the birds!
La Muntanya de Sal
A weekend at home…
Richard is ‘working’ in a posh castle near Barcelona at the moment, so I’ve spent the weekend visiting friends and relatives and errr… running. On Saturday our family came together to give my grandfather the final hardcopies of his memoirs. This might not be the last you hear about this because he tells us that …