From Summer Evenings
From Just one more venue...
From Openwater swimming at Dosthill Quarry
From Two days of glorious sun: Gouther and High Crag
From Running around the Stiperstones
From Robin Proctor's Scar
From Darwen Moor

Summer Evenings

Wednesday, 20th June 2012

At this time of year, when the weather is nice, the evenings after work are a great time to get out for some bonus play-time!

Just one more venue…

Sunday, 17th June 2012

Here’s one more work venue. (I said they might be back. 😉 ) Hopefully you agree that the picture above is quite a nice shot of this town hall clock tower. But, as is usual with my series of work-venue posts, where is it (without cheating and using the mapping below)? There was quite an …

Openwater swimming at Dosthill Quarry

Saturday, 16th June 2012

Swimming at the Bosworth Trust Water Park over the past month has been great, but I was eager to swim somewhere with clearer water and fewer ducks (and duck smells)! So, this morning I tested out the very convenient Dosthill Quarry, just on the outskirts of Tamworth. The quarry is a diving venue (http://www.divedozzi.com/), but …

Two days of glorious sun: Gouther and High Crag

Monday, 28th May 2012

Oooh what a treat. The whole weekend was going to be hot and sunny.

Running around the Stiperstones

Sunday, 27th May 2012

The weather has been amazing this weekend and we took full advantage of it by running around the Stiperstones area, in Shropshire. Thankfully there was a breeze for most of the day, so we didn’t get too hot. Richard came up with the route, which was partly inspired by a section of the Long Mynd …