C Day Minus 2 Days

Sitting in Sainsbury’s Cwmbran car park in the pissing south welsh rain. Heating on, windscreen wipers on, desperately peering through the gloom, searching for Antony’s Reg Golf estate, with Condor K2 on top. But no sign. It seemed a good idea agreeing to rendezvous in the Sainsbury Car Park- but this close to Christmas, hindsight […]

At home with the Taffs

There is a rhyme, proudly recounted to me by a Welshman. Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief Taffy went to England And stole all their beef Beaujolais has arrived in the land of the Taffs. As expected the conversation hot in the public houses is how they, the Welsh, were robbed of the […]

Gaiety Required

It is an awfully drab and grey day. Not exactly inspiring one to go out and paddle. Swimming a few lengths of the Jaccuzi is possibly the only training that I can muster any enthusiasm for today. Sadly the December, 2nd Linlithgow Winter Time trial was cancelled yesterday due to ice. Although from a positive […]

The Eagle… A study in K2 crew harmony

So round two of what has become locally and fondly known as Hurricane Bawbag (Bawbag being Scots for Scrotum)has passed through. In its aftermath K2’s were scattered to the four corners of the Jardin Du Beaujolais. Cortisone’s K1 escaped unscathed, although there was an interesting collection of tiles sticking neatly in the ground all around […]

Your only as good as your last session (training)..

Training, its a bit of a pain at the best of times. I find I need to keep to a rigidly disciplined timetable, plus have a clear goal, to have any chance of getting into shape. Over the last couple of weeks, the timetable as been torn up. I blame it on the weather. A […]

Its official…well almost

The union that is the K2 Partnership of Antony Murr and Michael Yeomans, is at last offical, well almost. The entry has been submitted online, the cheque submitted by post. I guess it will be really offical when we recieve the Email Confirmation. Any way thats the hard part done, now all we need to […]

Winter Fun

Yesterdays paddle started of in wonderful conditions (see picture), and finished in slightly more challenging circumstances as heavy snow started falling. So the snow has arrived and I see some of our fellow Buccaneers have been busy. GB has been engaging in Snow Ball fights, whilst Dirty D has been up in the mountains, enjoying […]

Drunk as a Skunk

The weekend has been a bit of a disaster, especially on the training front. The Saturday Buccaneer Paddle did not materialise, The Nelo sisters choosing to cancel. Beaujolais has struggled to remain on the straight and narrow. The dark, wet, windy and freezing cold conditions not making training an attractive proposition. Anyway this is the […]

Time to hoist the colours..

The 1st of December has been and gone. Obviously the main event was Cortisone’s Birthday celebration. However another, although less news worthy item, is that the Entries for the 2012 Devizes Westminster opened. My aim today is to contact Antony to check he is ok generally, and indeed with Beaujolais as his K2 partner of […]

Happy Birthday Graeme

Today is Graeme Stewart’s 45th Birthday. It also happens to be Cortisone’s 45th Birthday- so Happy Birthday to this fascinating dual personality. As a result Beaujolais plans to spend today feasting in celebration of Graeme aka Cortisone, good friendship and shared experiences…..