Archive for May, 2006
Charity Bike Ride – Day 2
(See Day 1)Marlborough to Wallingford (50miles/80km)Today started much better than yesterday. A full English breakfast and a sunny day with birds chirping outside - a good sign!At 10am the goup rode out of Marlborough and straight up the steepest hill of the day! What a start! I pushed up most of the hill - too much, too early! It was going down [...]
Charity Bike Ride – Day 2
Marlborough to Wallingford (50miles/80km)Today started much better than yesterday. A full English breakfast and a sunny day with birds chirping outside - a good sign!At 10am the goup rode out of Marlborough and straight up the steepest hill of the day! What a start! I pushed up most of the hill - too much, too early! It was going down the other [...]
Charity Bike Ride – Day 1
Wallingford to Marlborough (50miles/80km)The early 6.30am start was only the beginning of this nightmare! After registering and waiting around for all the late-comers, we set off at around 9.30am.The first 10km were great; tarred roads, flat, dry. After passing through a few villages, we went offroad and onto the Ridgeway. The legs were still [...]
Charity Bike Ride – Day 1
Wallingford to Marlborough (50miles/80km)The early 6.30am start was only the beginning of this nightmare! After registering and waiting around for all the late-comers, we set off at around 9.30am.The first 10km were great; tarred roads, flat, dry. After passing through a few villages, we went offroad and onto the Ridgeway. The legs were still [...]
My life… an update!
I'm finally on holiday this week. Sort of... still had to close the pub last night and open again this morning. Oh well, such is life!Joshua grows visibly every day. We went for a weekly weigh-in yesterday and he'd put on 400g (1 pound)in a week!! He's still sleeping OK but, obviously, eats quite often to keep that growth going!This weekend is my [...]
More anger!
OK. so I don't rant too often but today I feel the need! It has now been 4 weeks since my personal website (www.thebokandroo.com) went down. Without warning, I stopped getting emails. A friend called and said that my address was returning emails as undeliverable. So, I went on-line to my control panel only to find that my package had expired!Just [...]








