Blogging and trogging - July 2010
Si's general blogs on what's been going on...
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Jul 15th 2010 Swallows and Grindleford
The Official Grindleford 'Not a Raft Race' race.
Well, the Thursday night club excelled themselves this time. A nearly full turn out saw a multitude of river craft bedraggled down the local river - but not the River Derwent. Inflatable crocodiles, lilos, canoes, dinghies and tractor tyres raced the mile and half to the Calver bridge on a beautiful 'Swallows and Amazons' summer evening. Picture postcard views of Froggatt and Curbar Edge topped with grey skies framed the tranquil not-so-full-of fish waters of the ‘Not the River Derwent’.
Laughter was heard all the way, from racing for the inflatable fiesta of pumped up beauties, to the ‘jumping off the bridge’ for an unfeasibly silly number of times. So many happy faces – so much silt. To top it all our non-organiser – the ‘I’m not really Matt’, who doesn’t run an events company, didn’t fly us all to the Moon afterwards for swift beverages, pies and peas. Happy days. Yes.
Image below: 'Not-the-Official-Picture' but a good idea for next year methinks...
Jul 9th 2010 Power isn't everything
Today I borrowed the world's fastest bike on the road - the BMW S1000RR and laid down a few miles. Awesome was the verdict - to read more go to Planet Power
