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    • First Brick - the run bit.

    Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    . . . so I didn’t drink as much as I should have done on the bike.
    Anyway - the Run. VonSmallhaussen’s up to stay for the weekend, so she volunteered to come with me for the run - to the lighthouse and back. Except she was going to cycle (borrowing Wife’s bike), so that she […]

    Filed under: Cycling, Friends, Run, Injury, Recipes, Brick, Whitley Bay, Woo Wooo woooo!, No More Excuses | 1 Comment »

    Back from Skiing With Daughter & VonSmallHaussen

    Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    Wooo wooo wooo! Despite the delays with EasyJet, getting lost on our way out of Geneva, and generally not having had enough sleep, we got to go skiing last Sunday!
    Daughter had a private 1:1 lesson with the excellent Sally from the Snow Institute (HIGHLY recommended if you’re staying in Morzine) on Sunday afternoon, and then […]

    Filed under: Family, Friends, France, Skiing, Where I Shop, Woo Wooo woooo! | 1 Comment »

    Is it You that’s going skiing tomorrow?

    Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    No? Are you sure? A taxi picking you up at 03:50 (to quote Robin Williams - the “0″ is there ‘cos Oh my God, it’s early!), two hours hanging around an airport, a flight to Geneva, another hour waiting, and then a 45 minute drive up to Morzine, and skiing by lunch tme?
    No?
    Oh, I’ve done […]

    Filed under: Friends, Skiing, Silly Stuff, Woo Wooo woooo! | 1 Comment »

    Pantomime Horse

    Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    On Saturday the pistes were all really crunchy - a slight thaw on Friday night had been followed by a re-freeze. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem . . . but there were also a whole bunch of day-tripping skiers around, going at it like lunatics. So VonSmallHaussen and I just did a couple of […]

    Filed under: Friends, France, Skiing, Silly Stuff, Woo Wooo woooo! | 3 Comments »

    Skiing With Our Hosts

    Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    I am SO behind with this. OK, this post is the last one with any detail at all before I try to bring my training record up to date.
    On Friday we arranged to go skiing with our chalet hosts - the excellent Katie & Ash who had been looking after us for the week at […]

    Filed under: Friends, France, Skiing, Woo Wooo woooo! | No Comments »

    Packing For Skiing

    Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Karl On Sea

    Did I hear right that you’ve got a week’s skiing coming up?
    No? Are you sure? I’m certain that someone said something about seven days skiing the massive Three Valleys area - combining Courchevel, Méribel and Val Thorens?
    Oh, hang on a minute, I can see where I’ve gone wrong - it’s not you, it’s ME that’s […]

    Filed under: Friends, Skiing, Silly Stuff, Woo Wooo woooo! | 7 Comments »


    • Countdown to Hell

      It's your choice, and what you do today will make a difference. Global CO2 concentrations must peak at 400ppm by 2015, and then emissions must decline by 85% by 2050 if we are to avoid catastrophic, runaway global warming.

      Think global warming would make for a more pleasant environment? Think again - water shortages across central Europe and the US West coast, the Sahara engulfing up as far north as Lyons, the 1930's 'Dustbowl' looked back on with fond memories of better times, and nuclear armed India & Pakistan faced with droughts worth going to war for.

      And that's before we talk about the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the sea swallowing where most of us comfortably live.

      Like I said, it's your choice:



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