I’ve been a complete Olympic-addict over the last two weeks, eagerly awaiting the highlights on the TV in the evenings after work (Euro Sport HD has had fantastic non-stop coverage) and munching my cereal to the Breakfast Bulletins each morning. So great has my obsession grown that I’ve been trying to catch up on those [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Unpredictable. That’s what makes it exciting.
Posted in Sports, news, tagged horses, olympics, pentathalon, sport on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
fartlek for fitness?
Posted in Food, Random, Sports, tagged exercise, fartlek, routine, rugby, training on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s now less than a month to go until our first rugby match of the new season and, although its only a friendly, there seems to be no amount of fitness training that can prepare your body up to match fitness other than actually playing a lot of matches (past experience you see).
I do feel [...]
Fabulous France
Posted in Food, Random, tagged Brittany, Food, france, holidays, Josselin on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just returned from a family holiday in Brittany and it was lovely. The weather was good, the food was delicious and the wine flowed freely. We discovered that 1Euro bottles of red are perfectly drinkable, as are the 5 Euro (5litre) barrels of wine which were equally good to wash down masses [...]
Garden Magic
Posted in Food, tagged garden, growing, Jamie at Home, vegetables on August 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I can’t tell you how excitied I was yesterday when I discovered something miraculous growing in the garden. I like trying to ‘grow my own’ and have had success with most varieties of lettuce and rocket, I’ve tried tomatoes (got about 4 in total…) and the strawberry plants grown from seed have yeilded 1, [...]
