Ultra marathon.

This is the finish line for the half marathon that I completed last weekend. I finished in 1 hour 46 min and 26 seconds. Quite an achievement that I am really proud of doing. In the lead up I was also able to raise over my target of 200 pounds which will go to a good cause.

A Couple of Movies

Here are a couple of movies I took the other day when we were kite boarding down at the Heath Park. They are on youtube so you can check them out;


Me Kiteing; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILnSUGnVu8

Go have a look.

Thinking inside the box

It is a nice sunny day with no wind so today I felt a bit creative. As I could not in and fly my fantastic new kite I decided to become a bit creative. There used to be a rather sad looking piece of dirt next to the paving, so I decided to build a raised garden bed to plant some autumn plants in. First stop was the hardware where I got some lengths of decking for the sides, some posts for stakes and some screws for holding it all together. So I cut a couple of stakes and bashed them in before cutting and screwing the timber sides into position. I lastly made a final piece to in on the rear to keep the fist away from the neighbours walk before finally filling with dirt from the old potatoe sacks. Done and dusted. Now just need to plant.

Funky red tomato.

The second variety of tomatoes have started to ripen! They are a bit slower than the other variety but they are a bit larger and longer and I think that they will taste a bit better than the other ones. I am glad that they have finall started to ripen as the weather has already started to get a bit cooler, I thought that they would run out of time.

Second potatoe harvest

It was not as good as the first harvest but we got 10 potatoes from 2. I think that the small potatoes that I planted must not have grown at all. But we still got some Mighty potatoes. Next crop will be the onions.

Garden Reaping

Gardening is fun!

It is harvesting time for us in our tiny plot of soil in our pots. So far I have collected two ripe tomatoes, that tasted totally tasty with my breakfast today, and while we were sitting outside we both got a bit impatient with the potatoes so we decided to have a look. All the plants had died off so it would be now or never if we were to reap the rewards of our harvest. I turned the growing bag over and spilled the soil containing our nuggets (potatoes) onto the pavers so we could have a propper rumage around. It was at this point that Sarah let out a squeal of dellight. Eureka! We had a potato.

After going throught the whole bag we ended up with almost 30 potatoes of varying size and this is only one of the two bags that we were growing. It was really rewarding to have something after all this time. You can't see them growing like the tomatoes but that made it much better after the discovery. So now we just need somebody to come over and eat all our potatoes, as the reason we planted them in the first place was because we hadn't eaten all the ones we had before. Want to come ove for some hot chips?

Football on Saturday

We went to watch mark's football team, Gillingham, play against Hereford at Hereford today. The match ended nil all but was a good match. We got a spot right on the fence about 1 metre away from the pitch. Mark sent me a picture from his local newsletter about his football team and we managed to get ourselves into the picture. Can you spot me?

Hint, we are in the front on the right next to the man with the grey jumper.