Wobbles

For Henry and Morgan aka the Young Pretenders this week is all about moving through the wobble factors. The mission to move from the Wobble Factor 8 Condor K2 in Glass Fibre to the Wobble Factor 3 Merlin K2 in Carbon. Whilst there is a speed differential the major factor motivating this move is the […]

The Young Pretenders meet their Culloden

The battle of the boats continued this weekend. After last Sundays portaging exercise in which the crew of Private Pike and Beaujolais managed to defeat the Young Pretenders, it was with some anticipation and a lot of confidence that the Young Pretenders looked forward to getting revenge on a 14km non stop paddle. Over the […]

The Mandarin and the Bounty Girl

There was a cracking advert for Bounty Bars during the late 70’s. The sort of advertising that was considered acceptable at the time Sir Jimmy Savile and co were doing the rounds. Perhaps the advert would not be considered quite so PC now, but as a young impressionable School Boy I remember the sale of […]

An unfortunate encounter

For those who read this blog over the years, the news that Beaujolais has an almost unhealthy obsession with recording his weight and paddling times will be of little surprise. For those who have had to paddle with him, eventually the sound of a stop watch being started at the start of an outing is […]

Back in the Swim

This weekend has seen Beaujolais get back in a boat- many thanks for the kind words of encouragement from GB and the Silver Fox. The initial plan was to paddle 14k outings on Loch Lomond both Saturday and Sunday, this would be in the 2 k2’s, which would hopefully add a little aggro to proceedings. […]

Time to resurface

All in all the last month has been a month to forget. Personal paddling has not been either possible due to ill health, or when health permitting, been high enough up the priority list. Today the Devizes to Westminster Web site glibly informs me that there is 114 days to go to the race. For […]