Just a little bike ride...

Its Saturday and both Sarah and myself are sitting around wondering what we should do with our weekend. So I sujest a little bike ride around Bute park (the park with the stones in it next to the castle mum and dad). So off Sarah went in her car to go and borrow her dads old bike. When she got back we set off on a leisurley ride towards the town centre. Along the busy Newport road and through the packed shopping arcade we finally reached the castle and Bute park. We set off along the nice and smooth paths through the park and ended up on the Taff trail. This follows along the river Taff mor miles and eventually ends up at Brecon where if you reach this far you can catch the train back. I wasn't really thinking that that would be the Saturday afternoon ride that I was hoping for...

After a couple of hours passing many rugby fields, fly fishermen, Canoeists and many dog walkers we reached a place in the path for a quick rest. It was quite cold and neither Sarah or myself had brough a drink so we decided to head a bit further and look for a place to have a drink to warm up. Thats when Sarah suggested a pub that she knew. So off we went again. It was not until I saw a vision of Castle Coch. Castle Coch, it seemed qiute far in a car, but here we had reached it on our bikes after only about an hour of riding.

We stopped in the pub for some lunch and a drink to quench our thirst before we decided to head back home. the ride home seemed much quicker than the ride there but it was much more pleasureable as it was mostly downhill, being that it followed the river. The olny hitch we had on teh way home was that the gates to Bute park were locked and had been locked since 4. Not too much of a biggy as i was able to lift the bikes over the fence. We got home with a nice feeling of pleasure and acomplishment.

Daffs

My daffs have been sprouting for nearly a month now, there are a real lot of them emerging from the pot now. There is one tiny one that may have a flower on it and it may flower really soon.

I was pretty proud of teh Daffs so far, thinking that they were really good and that they were ahead of the pack, but the other day i was looking into the window of the persons house that i was insulating and there on the sill was a pot full of flowereing daffs. So much for having the first daffs in town. At least they arn'e planted int he grounds outside, as they are mostly completly frozen.

So COLD

It is actually freezing at the moment.
I went back to work this week after getting back from Australia and it so far ahs not been very plesant. Yesterday was the coldest ever. We had a bucket of water that we used to mix the cement or Teraline for filling the holes that we drill into the clients houses, and this bucket, which was just sitting on the ground waiting to be used started to freeze right in front of my eyes. I have always wondered how the water freezes in the ice cube containers in teh freeezer, but here it was happening right in front of my eyes in the middle of the day. Now thats pretty cold!

I am so glad tha i went out and bought a set of thermal undergarments to wear during the day, they sure have come in handy. The rest of the country is also feeling the cold here. They say that it has been the coldest start to Janurary ever. But in the end there has not really been any snow which is a bit dissapointing. The colsest has been the white roads (white form all the salt that has been put on them) and teh frosts that reamin during the entire day alongside the roads. But the colder it gets the less humid it gets and the less humid the less frosty and the less chance of it getting to rain up high and freeze, therefore turing to snow when it gets lower. Well winter is not over yet so we will see.