Dirty D and I returned to Loch Lomond from our annual DW pilgrimage this year with a K2 that did not once touch the water during a close to 1000 mile road trip. So huge amounts of time and other resources expended over the last year for a did not start (DNS). However in my […]
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Time to get back in the saddle- a few thoughts post DW18
April 3, 2018“No pressure, no diamonds” : Buccaneer Down…
April 18, 2017“no pressure, no diamonds” – a quote discovered on the long drive home yesterday, and although it’s origins were subsequently discovered to be slightly less honourable, I think I will keep it all the same…. As Beaujolais has already blogged our DW2017 hasn’t quite finished as we’d hoped, it was more of a DR – […]
Pulled off at Runnymede – not the way we wished to finish DW2017
April 17, 2017Having spent the last few years paddling with Diane Sharp, and in that time been through some highs and lows, I believe it probable that she is currently feeling a little down after having had to pull out of DW2017 due to a damaged shoulder at Runnymede ie after 90 miles and 70 odd portages. […]
Day 3…
April 16, 2017Oh my giddy aunt, fingers are a mess… Onwards!
Day 2
April 15, 2017Heading to Newbury…. smelling faintly of Vaseline and zinc oxide….. Onwards….
Here we go…
April 14, 2017En route to Devizes, tummy is full of evil porridge, banana and pain au chocolate… no wafer thin mint for this buccaneer!! Onwards and good luck to all…
History Repeating – Kinda
April 13, 2017My phone cheerfully reminding me that it’s a mere 2 days to go till I paddle under the bridge at Devizes and into another unknown… The unknown 4 days Devizes to Westminster Singles. Right now the straight through Senior K2 event seems like a good option, purely and simply for the fact it gets it […]
Checking the weather be like…
April 11, 2017365 little days…
March 26, 2017This time last year it was all over… Beaujolais and Dirty D realised their DW dream by passing under Westminster Bridge, in good time and good humour… Brilliant, no need to do all that again…. So in 19 days I’ll be paddling down the Thames, in a k1 this time around…. and I have been […]
Gotta Love It…
March 8, 2017Goose stepping, 1920’s flapping and walking like an egyptian – there’s something deeply cathartic about a grown man in shorts and a bobble hat trying to distract you when you’re on the phone! Two fluffy ducks later we headed for a much needed paddle… #lovingit
Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race 