Month: April 2004
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Strict diets ‘cut heart disease’
Sweet! This is exactly the sort of diet I’ve followed when training hard for climbing. In the past (pre-Jack) I cut my daily calorie intake to around 2000 calories to stay light, but still ate a balanced diet, just less quantity. Yeah, it’s hard, and you generally need good motivation to do it. This new…
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Coastal Cyclepath
Wow, 2 punctures this afternoon! Impressive. One front, one back. So I had a bit of time to kill between fixing a puncture and getting the later train. I pootled east on the coastal cycle path in the sun, and followed it around to the marina. Quite lovely. It almost cheered me up. And just…
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Everybody’s Back
The station car parks are full, lots more people are on the trains, and we have students milling around the campus. Easter holidays must be over then.
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Jack’s First Bike Ride
Jack had his first time out on the bike today, up, down and around the Taff Trail. He enjoyed himself, and we had no mishaps! It’s fine at speed, but you really have to pay attention when you’re moving slowly. Bags of fun.
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Fire!
I just read this email: “Could all staff in the Abbey evacuate the building immediately. The fire alarm has been activated but the sounders are not all working.” ROFL. This is terrible. I read this 20 minutes after it was sent, so I guess it was a good job I wasn’t in the Abbey building,…
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Commuterboy Rides Again
Yeah. Started cycling to and from the train stations and dumping the bike on the intercity to Swansea and back today. S’alright. At least it’s not raining.
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Alan Hinkes Off To Dhaulagiri
“British mountaineer Alan Hinkes has announced that his next “Challenge 8000” expedition will be to climb Dhaulagiri (8,167m), the seventh highest mountain in the world. Alan will be flying out to the Himalaya at the end of March and hopes to reach the summit during May.” The best of British to ya, Alan! I particularly…