Happy New Year

As the New Year dawns upon us I am going to reignite this blog for 2018 - starting with a 

Happy New Year

September Sunset

It's been a busy day of sorts today - achieved a lot, but did look or feel like it. Anyhow, I managed to have a great walk with the dogs over the fields at the back of Aspenden before dinner and was rewarded with this magnificence sunset!

Just found out it's the Autumn Equinox - What a sunset to finish summer!

Show Bus 2014

We used our Friends of Duxford Imperial War Museum passes yesterday to go and have a look at Show Bus 2014. A massive display of Buses and coaches throughout the last century, all within the museum grounds. 

From the latest coaches sporting WiFi and TV's to beautifully restored projects from the early 1900's there was plenty to see and actually go on. My wife being from London got all nostalgic when seeing all the old route masters!

These were my favourite Route Masters, especially the AK McMullens one as it's one of our local brewery's. As always with Duxford there is so much to see and so much going on in the skies - don't forget to look up! 

Train Your Dragon

Woke up early due to the thunder and lightening so a family camping weekend was off the cards!

Family morning today with a trip to our local 'Childrens' Cinema....

Film of the day: How to train your Dragon 2. All I can say is that it was fantastic. Great story and really easy to follow on from the 1st one and the graphics were awesome....only made better by the fact that we went to the 3D showing. £3.50 each so superb value for money as well!

Playing with Fire

Found a great new setting on the camera tonight - I love photography and the digital age just seems to know no boundaries. Watched a YouTube video on shooting the moon and used the settings suggested on a candle shot instead. I was really pleased with the results! Looks best if you click on the picture to enlarge it!

I post all my pictures on Flickr.....Link HERE

Back to Basics

I was very fortunate recently to be invited with one of my cub leaders to attend the Back to Basics Scout
Camp for our group.

Camped in the middle of the woods, gathering firewood to feed the camp fire and lots of free time to enjoy the experience. We all learnt about knife safety and sharpening, together with starting a fire without matches to light the mud ovens that had been prepared for the 4 roast chickens. 

The leaders, some who were just sleeping in hammocks strung between the trees shared their immense knowledge showing the scouts how to use an axe safely and making a makeshift bivvy to stay in for the night.

I opted from my new Vango Hurricane 300 over my usual Karsten as I purchased this solely for the cub/scout camps. We also took a tarp just in case the weather turned, but luckily it was too cold for rain!

All in all a thoroughly knowledgeable weekend and looking forward to many more! 

Dog Control

So after our great Easter break I fired up my work computer - 212 unread emails - great!. Mostly spam although the filters are set really high, and a few good leads for our business so something to get my teeth into straight away.

At the end of 2012, we had a new member join our family - Bella the rescue Weimaraner. She's absolutely beautiful and as gentle as can be - great with the children, but oh boy can she pull. As you know, we have just spent Easter in Norfolk (where coincidentally there was an abundance of Weimaraner's),  but one of the other owners was using a Halti collar to control theirs. Having chatted for a while we moved on amazed at the claims of this other owner in respect of this canine head collar.

Needless to say, this morning I purchased one for Bella and we proceeded to go for a walk. The result was instant. She did fight a little once it was first attached - pawing etc... but she soon realised it was there to stay until she was over the field and could run. Couldn't believe how something so simple could have such an effect. Worth every penny.

Anyway, we were lucky that the Grandparents looked after the children for the afternoon - Think they had missed them over Easter, so we collected them in the early evening and whilst driving home was presented with this fantastic sunset.

Going to be a cold night!