Archive for the 'Non Diving Wanderings' Category

Orkney 11th August

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Could you cook up something in this? Perhaps not a stir fry but how about a nice sheeps head…….. yum……..not

This is actually an iron age ‘cooking pot’, on the right is the fire. Stones would be heated in the fire and put in the ‘pot’ which was full of water. Eventually enough stones would be […]

Orkney - 8th August

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I’ve done some strange things in my time but pulling myself into a stone-age burial chamber on a trolley that resembled a skateboard was a first!

Having arrived on Orkney via the ferry and Stromness one of the main things I wanted to do on was to visit some of the prehistoric sites that are on […]

Up to Orkney - 6th August

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

With less than a mile to go to the next service station I felt the car stutter and knew I wasn’t going to make it.
I had been sitting in traffic jam on the M6 while the police, having taken down the central reservation, were diverting traffic from one carriageway to the other. A […]

Cycling The Camel Trail

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Cycling the trails in Cornwall certainly beats doing my Step video in the small sitting room of my flat! I was hoping to get back into shape and in the process improve my air consumption for diving, so decided to try and do a bit more cycling.
Last year I took my mountain bike up to […]

The Lake District - April 06

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

The suns out lets go climb a mountain!
This seemed to be the mentality of many people when I recently went up to the Lake District for a few days. When I am not diving I often pop up to the Lake District and as I had a little more time I was able to get […]