Ever Decreasing Circles

It’s been a while, to quote, oh I dunno, probably hundreds if not thousands of songs. Lots has gone on including me getting nothing more than a frankly mediocre C grade in my As-Level photography course (which reminds me I must pick up the certificate and my coursework), and we move house. Over 12 months on, we are still making do and have onyl finished one bedroom (not even the one we’re sleeping in, it’s the guest bedroom we’ve finished!) and two bathrooms. We haven’t even been in the front room downstairs other than to dump boxes and scurry out again!

Anyway, the purpose of this post is not to witter on, but to stick up The. List. This is The. List. of ski resorts that we think we might want to visit over the coming years. If you ski with us, feel free to add resorts or tell us which ones you don’t fancy. The. List. is in no particular order by the way….

• Europe

• St Anton
• Verbier
• Baqueira Beret
• Grand Valira
• Gressoney
• Ste Foy Tarentaise
• La Thuile / La Rosiere
• La Plagne
• Les Arcs
• Saalbach Hinterglemm
• Schladming
• Bansko
• Cortina d’Ampezzo
• Kitzbuhel
• Selva Val Gardena
• Chamonix
• Alpe d’Huez
• Les Deux Alpes
• Bareges
• Kranskja Gora
• Flaine

• North America

• Red Mtn
• Silver Star
• Big White
• Revelstoke
• Whitewater
• Aspen
• Utah
• Jackson Hole
• Grand Targhee
• Mt Baker
• Big Sky
• W*******

• Exotic

• Japan
• Cat Skiing
• Alaska
• Chile
• New Zealand
• Kashmir

Rod made me put in the resorts in the States. and if you don’t know which resort is starred out, count yourself lucky you haven’t heard R&R rabbitting on for hours on end about how much better it is than whatever resort you’re currently in / considering….

Update: Phil made me add several “exotic” destinations….

Blinking flip!

We spent all afternoon in the park with Finley (my 3 year old nephew: see pic below) surrounded by t-shirtless chavs swearing, drinking, smoking and playing football (in that order) and loads of fat young biffers exposing rather unseemly amounts of pale, dimpled flesh, presumably in the hope of attracting the attention of the aforementioned.

All afternoon I’ve been lethargic because of  the heat but about 20 minutes ago I realised I could barely see anything - I turned on the lights and suddely realised how dark it had become. Funny, I thought, it’s July not November. Why is it dark so early?

Then the rain started.

it’s put more down in the last five minutes than in the last five weeks. thank god I got home in time

An evening in front of the PC beckons I think. The only slight problem is that we’ve defrosted the fridge today, and there wasn’t room in the coolbox for my beers - so the only cold beers are in the garage, and I’m going to get very wet if I go across to get them

Now where did I put that  Lowe Alpine waterproof? And the matching trousers…

Having spent the weekend cycling in Wales, it was only natural to assume that the pulled muscle in my had healed, wasn’t it?

No such luck, although I did last for around an hour before pulling up with the pains again. Going to give it a couple of weeks without exercising so it has time to recover.

Gosh. Took all of five minutes to install this thing. IN fact it was so simple I went and had tea half way through (peppered steak with mashed potatoes, peas and carrots since you ask!)