Showing posts with label Cycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cycling. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Slack updates! tut tut!

Hello all, so whilst the whole of the country grinds to a holt through the snow, and offically comes out of recession the main thing that has held this great country of ours together is this blog... which sadly we've not updated since new years day, due to this Chaos has erupted in the WHOLE country!

So the question on everyone's lips is what the dickens have me and Naomi been up to!? Well we've been riding some fresh powder on Dartmoor:


We've also been getting really board sitting at home... thus resulting in a new animation of ours:


I would love to say there's some deep meaning to this animation which reflects upon the inner child like emotions of our young marriage... but it really was just a animation for animation's sake... one day we'll create a full motion picture... one day!

So what else have the Devonshire Hodges been up to? Well sadly we've mostly been working! Paul (our car) has had a couple shady morning of refusing to start which has meant Naomi's been forced to catch the train to work at stupid O-Clock in the mornings! Luckily it seems he's back to his chirpy self (yes I did just say our car was Chirpy!). Whilst we're mentioning Paul, Naomi has been having more quality time with him than myself as of late, what with her driving him every day so I decided to take him away for the day on a day trip to Wales to go riding with my Brother and Dad at Brechfa:


As one might be able to tell from this photo of my dad that the white stuff on the floor is not an excessive amount of paint on the floor with black tire marks on top but is in fact yet MORE snow! Indeed the night prior to my trip to Wales (my chum Antony Bishop popped along too), the South West England and South wales got a slight sprinkling of snow (a very slight sprinkling), but this combined with a miss directed (my brother typed in the wrong address) satnav caused us to drive on a very minor icy/snowy road which was on a slight decline which resulted in this:


Surprisingly this was actually quite good fun and luckily no-one and more importantly no-cars were hurt/damaged in the production of this video! We ended up EVENTUALLY getting to Brechfa and had a smashing time riding in the snow! Here's the end results to the towels after the whole escapade:


So asides from playing in the snow we've actually being slightly adult like atm as we're beginning to start looking to buy our first house! SCARY! More on this in the next coming months I'm sure!

Well that's all for now hopefully the next update won't take AGES!

Saturday, 21 November 2009

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!