Sunday 2nd June 2013 to Saturday 8th June 2013

Sunday 2nd June 2013
Up earlyish.  Phil not well bless 'im.   Dog out, fed and watered.  More gardening.  Off to Uttoxeter, got more compost (wish my composter would damn well hurry up).  Planted the beans and sweet corn out (at last).  Metre square one is now totally done.

Decided needed to do some bloomin exercise so got 7 miles done on bike.
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/197988278/7469884

Then a further three miles of golfing madness.
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/198018277/7469884

Have decided I'm going to use the old faithful LCG clubs as the coin forged RAC MBs are a bit too good for me to hit with any consistency.   Watered everything, polished shoes, off to bed.


Monday 3rd June 2013
Busy week this one.  Have got London tomorrow night, Wentworth Wednesday night and Thursday - all go, go, go.   Over to Darley Dale tonight to water plants and stuff.  Back home, bit of tea, took Lily for a walk all the way to the Church and back. Three miles worth of golf to finish off. All good stuff.   Filled all the water butts.

Tuesday 4th June 2013
Woke up at about 5am.  Got up 5:45.  Let the pup out, fed and watered.  Watered plants outside.  Cleaned golf clubs, fetched papers.  Drove over to Darley as I thought I'd not shut the greenhouse door properly and I was right!  Into work for 8:30.  All good.  Leaving for London after lunch.  Got home 10:45 / 11:00pm ish.  tired, tired, tired.  Interesting seminar though.

Wednesday 5th June 2013
Up early, dog out, fed, watered. Plants watered. Papers fetched.  Work.  Over to Darley Dale for some jobs.   Back home.  Packed up off to Surrey - stopped overnight at the Royal Berkshire.  Very nice.

Thursday 6th June 2013
Up at 6am.  At Wentworth Golf Club for 7:30.  Nice brekky courtesy of the lovely people from Honda.  Tee of at 9.20 first tee shot in the fairway.  All downhill after there but beautiful scenery.  A cracking golf course and no mistake just didn't play well at all.   Nice meal after, couple of glasses of wine.   Nice cooling drink that seemed to be two parts ginger ale, one part ginger beer, some bitters (wassat?) and lots of ice.  All done for 5:30pm then long, slow,drive home.  got back for 8:45pm.  Could have been worse I suppose.

Friday 7th June 2013
Up at 6am and struggled to get out of bed. Went down let dog out, fed, watered, took her into the garden she did her business and got a treat as you'd expect.  Went to Hollie's group in Belper on way to work.  4lbs on - not unexpected after two weeks not attending and much mucking about and sticky toffee pudding. Worse to come though as on a boozy fishing and kayaking weekend tomoz.  On way home I did a load of watering and what have you at Darley Dale.  Got home, tea then got car partially loaded.

Saturday 8th June 2013
Up at 6am.  Did the Dogs early morning business. Fetched Papers, finished loading the car up. Set off at about 7:30 our Andrew had already set off an hour and a half earlier. Never mind - got there for about 11am got base camp established.  Listened to cricket with a pint.  Went down at tea time to get some bait dug.  All good stuff.

No need to go to Spain when Wales is like this! Holyhead Mountain in the distance

After a bit of a BBQ feast it was time for the fishing to begin.   Unfortunately while the weather was ideal for camping and kayaking (went for a paddle on the Sunday)  you do need a bit of a surf to get the bass interesting and it was unfortunately flat as a pancake.  As it happens we didn't blank - pulling in about 7 or 8 dogfish between us.

A distinct lack of surf!

Who let the dogs out?

Think we fished til about 12:30 then called it a day.  Pleasant evening not too cold.


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