WMCEG goes cultural
Author: Rachel
Reindeer, Skiing, Marathons + Chocolate
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Another Virgin Birth
Happy Christmas to all! The gerbils wanted to send their Christmas wishes and allow you to celebrate another of their virgin births with them. Yes, it’s true. Hector and Chris P. Duck, were two males when purchased from the pet shop, yet their ability to produce offspring has proved to be quite remarkable.
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 …
You mean you go without a guide?
We don’t class ourselves as novice cavers anymore, so we thought we should take a trip underground on our own. Rachel knows half of Oxlow Cavern pretty well, having been there several times to dig, so we thought we’d go and discover the other half. We set out about 1pm in rain and wind. Happily …
OFD I to OFD II
A through trip from Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I to OFD II was planned with Brendan (DCC), Richard and I. In the end a metallurgy professor from Oxford also joined the trip. A really fabulous trip it was. We started off at the bottom of the hill and went through various places, some of which I …
A Weekend Underground
On Saturday, Richard and I met Colin and Sloth in Bernies cafe, where we were assembling for a trip down Bar Pot (the second time within a month for Colin and I). A few hours later we started down the pot and descended down the two large pitches which I rigged. Following we took a …
Rab Mountain Marathon
The weekend of September 29th and 30th was the Rab Mountain Marathon in the Lake District. We drove up Friday night after Richard had arrived back from Boston that morning. Perhaps not the best preparation, but races in the Lake District don’t come around all that often, so you have to enjoy them when they …