Random acts of senceless lethargy

I have decided (read have been told) to do the Yorkshire 3 peaks again this year.

Thankyou for all the support I got this year, if you sponsored me in 2009 I won't be expecting you to do so again for 2010!

For anyone who does want to give to a good cause (Red cross of course) here is my new page.

Jasper is back in the cage.

We couldn't find him last night, eventually he turned up at 9:30, not using his left front paw. On further exmination he has a couple of very nasty grazes on his face and 1/3 of his left canine missing.

Took him to vets at 10:00 where he was given lovley opiates, he promptly fell asleep on the floor.

Had X-rays today and we can't be sure if he has broken his leg or if the shadow on the plate is an old injury.

Needless to say he is a very sad mog.

vet bill £300+ already. (to be claimed back later, thank goodness for pet plan.)

. . . his death from exhaustion!

Well nearly, three peaks completed, for a more in depth account ( click here )

A huge thank you to all that sponsored or encouraged me.

Now a hot bath. . . . . .

Is anyone looking at getting sky TV at all, we're looking at upgrading ours and if we get a friend to join we get the new box for free as long as the new person says we recomended them.

Thought I might as well ask.

Today was the big day, me, a qualified pilot, one 60yr old tigermoth and 1000 feet of nothing below. It was the flight that tallbint got me for my birthday, flying from duxford, not only the site of the Imperial war museum but also a lot of history.

( Aircraft geekery )

Well it has been a nice day overall. Although I'm not officially 30 until about 11:30 tomorrow morning the party was had today. I want to thanks all my fantastic friends and for snack food, sausages ona stik, banana, nutty smiley cakes and a HUGE cookie cake (nom!) and thankyou for all my fantastic presents, you are all amazing people and of course the house of rat for hosting the party due to icky weather, i'm glad I let tallbint convince me to celebrate my birthday.

Against my better judgement there has apparently beena party organised to celebrate my 10th 21st birthday party, it is a joint affair to celebrate Ruby's 3rd and rich's ahem 30th!

At the moment I belive it will be happening on saunday in ruskin park and I'm told there will be snack food to be eaten.

Thats all for now.

...or maybe just collapse in a heap.

Just made it back from Lynne and Will's wedding, before the light started to fade (tallbint does not drive well in dusk or dark as she has relatively bad eyesight unless in full sunlight)

More importantly though, Wedding was fab! Congrats to the happy couple and thanks for a very relaxed event (I can take no credit at all as unlike others I did nowt to help out)

No public till 12, out at 5 and no pressure to have to do anything to entertain, the way forward for events methinks. public bah! who needs them?

More potentially boring walking stuff.

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Back to work again. Not bad though I will be in sheffield all week so late mornings and early home. Its a 4 day weeks due to being off on monday and looking forward to a 4 day week next week. Will keep all interested parties up to date with walking plans. Have just updated my Amazon wish list as well so it has my real n ame not just Wretch.

I am still reluctant to do these lists as I find them a little odd.

Did another walk, 14.6km (9.1m) walk over Higger tor, Houndkirk moor, Ringlow and past Redmires to Stannage pole, finishing by going down Stannage edge. 5 Hours (slowed considerably by stopping for a pint at the pub). Thanks to father and brother in laws for the company. Came home after visiting the hospitality of the house of rat, loaded in laws volvo up with junk, and re-painted shed.

all in all a rather productive day.

Another training 11 1/4 km (7m) walk along footpath to Cannock chase, then around Mere valley, Coppice hill and Brockton field. Investigated sites of WW1 POW camp training camp and training trenches.

Dog (in-laws setter) seems more tired than me though.

Planning next walk to encompas Higger Tor next weekend.

Just finished first 3 peaks training walk.

Did 8km (5 mile) in approx. 2 hours. fields, woods with pleanty of up and down. Also discovered another very nice wood only a mile from our house, in a month or so it will be 100% blue by the look of the number of bluebells growing.

Feel just warmed up so thats good and almost no leg pain, methinks mostly thanks to a back proddle from Ceehoss yesterday.

keep up wiht the progress at

www.justgiving/ianpoulton

I AM doing the yorkshire 3 peaks with a friend from work.

If anyone wants to sponsor me to do this 24 1/2 mile walk arround Pen-y-gent, Whernside and ingleborough please accost me when you next see me or even easyer try going to my justgiving site

www.justgiving.com/ianpoulton


Now to get in shape and do some training.

...just a quicky to say

a) not dead!

b) anyone interested in doing a sponsored walk? 3 yorkshire peaks to help raise funds for my employer (Red Cross) maybe some of the gents might be up for it 'cos we don't have a race for life to have a go at

11th June if anyone is interested.

c) still not dead

As promiced here are more ( pictures )

so now we see what the insurers have to say.

Needless to say I will now claiming for a new copy of the Mothers Ruin CD thats stuck in the CD player that tallbint has already bid on e-bay for and for my work first aid kit that they might charge me for, it is trapped as the drivers seat has been sheared off its mountings and is squashing it. (ten minutes with a crow bar couldnt get it free).

anyway thats all for now, looking forward to relaxing in europe for 2 1/2 weeks.

Many thanks for your messages of support, I am OK, just a couple of scratches from putting my hand in broken glass on the floor whilst crawling out.

Started feeling stiff this morning, my neck aches as does my back on the right hand side.

Let this be a lesson.

Wear your seatbelt!

In case this happens



more pics to follow.

I'm not dead.

I am old though!

More later.

OK, so Manchester isn't that far away. My first 4 days of training are done, just a billion more to go. Had my induction to the BRC yesterday. There are now 4 annies in the garrage, creepy.

So there I was minding my own buisness cleaning out the grubly goldfishes when my back decides its had enough. Que intense back pain meaning it took me 15 minutes to get out of bed and walk down the stairs this morning and two attempts to walk around the house to the garage for the car (second attempt sucsessfull mostly due to Co-codamol.

This is NOT what I needed 5 days before starting my new job!!!!!