What a crap day today was. Rained from mid-morning onwards pretty much non-stop. Got a 6.5 mile run in though before it all began. Have got another metre square garden made (need to fill the bugger with compost and get the grid made up though. Got the mini garden round the back surrounded a bit better to keep the soil off the fences (still not sure what I'm going to put in round the back - will have to see).
Monday 13th May 2013
Up at 4am. Got up proper at 6am. Let Lily out and fed her. Got everything watered. Got Papers. Got off to work. No run though - this having a puppy mullarky is limiting in some ways! Work done - busy day. Helped Phil put together a cold-frame base and now that's doing proper cold-framey style work with a load of sweet peas and a tomato plant in it currently. Went out for a ride on the bike 7.2 miles in 36m 52s better than nothing averaging 11.7mph with a fair bit of a breeze.
Tuesday 14th May 2013
Up early with little dog making a right old racket - fed her. Got Phil up at 6am. Phil stopped with Dog, I ran up town and back without timing it for a change. All good stuff and I potted up a nisturtium out of the tray, think there'll be another two to come from a 50p bargain that JAS saw and grabbed. Off to work, Lily fast asleep in the sunshine when I left. Bless.
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| Lily snoozing in the sunshine |
Got home but did nigh on naff-all due to constant rain. Even forgot to unload the compost in the car!
Wednesday 15th May 2013
Up at 5:45. Let Lily our and fed her. Got Phil up at 6am. Quick run up town and back to fetch papers. All good. Breakfast, showered and then off to work - stopped at Hangar 4 on the way for some screws for the Phil (£21.60 worth!). Made the mistake of going through Derby after coming off Ashbourne Industrial Estate and it took bloomin ages. Didn't get into the office until 8:50 - rubbish. Hectic day at work then down to Belper for weigh-in : same 3lb off that I'd put on the week before. Back home for tea. Bit of gardening Mullarky. Then did 1.89 miles of golf which was sort of okay - didn't hit the irons as well as previously but still parred three of the six holes I played. Covered everything up in the garden as a frost was expected.
Thursday 16th May 2013
Got up at 6am - let the pup out and fed her. Got Phil up. Two mile run as was running a wee bit lated. Glad covered stuff up in the gardening department. Bit of ice on the dustbin lid so obviously was cold. Got a 2 mile run done and new metre square garden divvied up!
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| Lily mooching about |
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| Lily inspects the new metre square |
Got home from work, tea and then busy with metre square garden number two. Miscalculated a bit as have gone and put 12 beetroot into one square thinking there should be 16 when in fact the number should have been 9!! Never mind will sort that out later. Have put 16 onions into one square and 12 more little gem lettuces into three square - still plenty of space for filling!
Friday 17th May 2013
Quick run up town. Gardening mullarky done. Loads of jip with Phil then got most of the car loaded up for transporting first kayak to Wales.
Saturday 18th May 2013
Up early, Phil wasn't. Car loaded up off to Wales with the Yak on top. All good stuff. Tides are rubbish on Phil's weekends off unfortunately, tend to be neap tides and tends to be approaching low tides in the early part of the night rather than approaching high tides. Such is life. Got there, got settled in - wish we'd took tent but the weather forecast was diabolical so we went in cottage for a night.
Bit of a walk while Phil dossed about.
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| Little bit of a walk along coastal path. |
Odd but good session. Normally, we pretty much always fish the incoming tide whether it's half an hour after low or last two hours of flooding tide. Vic, owner of Orchard Cottage and Ty Newydd cottages and Campsite (and also Match Secretary at Holyhead Fishing Club) suggested fishing final two hours of tide going out which would be in darkness so at about 9:15 got down there. It was a puny sort of a neap tide as well so it was never going to go that far out and would just about reach the rocks when it came back in - I thought it would be just a worm-drowning session - how wrong can you be?
Vic's first cast resulted in the biggest dogfish I've ever seen - interesting start. I had to wait until cast two to pull in a small plaice which was released and whizzed off at a pace to get a bit fatter for next time. Cast three resulted in a missed bite - something that was obviously dashing towards me as I kept getting slack line then fight, then slack line, then fight, then off. Damn. Cast four may have got the culprit in the form of nice bass which was kept for a change (probably keep two bass in any year), same sort of fight slack line then resistance but I had him good and proper, nicely lip-hooked. Cast five resulted in a not bad sized dogfish but nothing like the leviathan that Vic had pulled in. After that and almost on low tide the fishing dried up. Vic said you can wait half an hour or so for it to start coming in and the bites should come on again or call it a day. I thought I'll quit while I'm ahead and called it a day. A cracking session only spoiled by leaving camera in the cottage. Such is life.
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