A WET walk on Dartmoor

Well if you haven't heard on the news or been outside for a while, you might have noticed that its been a TAD wet of late! Well this didn't seem to deter Naomi insisting upon us going for a walk this weekend! However I sneakily decided this would be a good excuse to scope out some new routs to cycle on.

Well the start of the walk was a sign of things to come with us discovering Paul to be sitting in a pool of water... great!

So clearly I had to do the manly thing of walking out into the deep pool and drive Paul to a drier spot, I surprisingly did this without actually getting wet socks! We then drove out to the Moors successfully without driving into the back of anyone after Paul's brakes failed after the wetness, luckily they sorted themselves out after a quick spin!

We.... I'd decided we'd go for a little walk around this spot here on Dartmoor:

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The walk started off with a rather amusing comment from Naomi of (not a direct quote) "You don't need those Waterproof trousers".... oooh how wrong she was! The heaven's emptied I stayed bone dry Naomi's top half stayed dry... this said rain ran off onto her trousers and she got soaked... mehehehe! We walked up to one of the tours here was the view:

The view behind wasn't to bad either ;-)

The walk back to the car was rather amusing with the decision of the boring walk along the road or the walk down the vally over moor land.... for some odd reason we decided to walk down the vally.... vally's being known for the small bit of water flowing down the middle... which wasn't tooo small! Lets just say our feet got rather wet!

Well that is all for now.... thanks for reading!

PS Snuffles... for all those who were at our wedding is doing just fine living with us in our flat:

Lots of Cycling, and some amendments to our house!

Well according to Naomi we've not done much exciting stuff since our last update but I think we've done a fair amount... first off two weeks ago me and Naomi went our seporate ways and visited our home towns as we both had friends emegrating to different countries. I took this time to spend some quality time with my dad and our bikes:



The following weekend consisted of me and Naomi going on a crazy spending spree and got a new sofa and some tables and chairs! Fun times:

The Sunday then consisted of me giving myself lots of abuse by racing against a number of like minded fools in the first round of the Soggy Bottom series:

Here's also a little video of me crossing the above video, check me Shredding it up on the exit:

The race went really well and I came home in 5th which I was rather chuffed with! Well that about raps up the past 2 weeks of events.

Looking back on this post I can see what Nay was referring to it does seem a little bit bland... so sorry for this! We'll try and do something exciting for you to read in the next update!

St Ives and Guy Forks

I'm currently writing this as Naomi's fallen asleep next to me and I've just finished cooking Sweet and Sour Chicken and I'm rather exhausted myself... yet for some reason I feel compelled to write this post... odd that! Well the past weekend consisted of my Brother and Sister in Law calling past on their way down to St Ives so as well as the pleasantries of seeing them we also hitched a free lift down to Cornwall's finest sea side resort!

First things first we had to get our pasty on:

Those in the know will realise that, I'm actually eating some crazy assed pasty, since I purchased the pasty which was made in Cornwall its Crib is actually along the top (which normally defines a devonshire pasty) as opposed to along the side (traditional cornish). This almost concerned me a little bit until i realised that I was holding something which could be eaten and after a minute or so of chomping the item of confusion was no more!

The rest of our time in St Ives consisted of a lot of wondering around and enjoying the local facilities (highly recommend the Sloop Inn and their Mexican Restaurant! oh and yeah St Ives beaches aren't too bad either!

Oh and one final thing from our trip to St Ives which was quite amusing at the time but watching it back, its not quite as amusing one Giant dog barking at a little dog which isn't bothered at all!



It kinda resembles this highly amusing comic strip I've found on Lucy Lou's Art Journal:

Well after our lovely weekend, we both have had to go back to work, which isn't actuallly that bad a thing since we both enjoy our jobs! This week however contains the most magical day of the 5th November! Where for some reason controlled explosions are no longer throwned upon and are accepted as common practice! FIREWORKS night! The city of Plymouth gets it community spirit on when it comes to Fireworks night by putting on a huge free display on the Hoe its actually really nice how the City all turns up at one place like that! I did try my best to try and capture the feeling of the place in this clip but was quite distracted by the Huge fire and explosions to really put that much effort into it:



We rounded the evening off with a visit to Captain Jaspers for some Fat filled Burgers but darn they were tasty! So that leaves me to were I am now about 50min later I think I shall let sleep do its thing!