Up early at 5.30 Dog walked, paper fetched, back for 6.40am, into the office for 8.30. Phil sent some pictures over night - he was cutting on Sunday afternoon (after a 700 mile, 14 hour trip on Saturday) - some birthday weekend for the wee lad.
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| Cutting on Sunday 20th July |
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| The view from Phil's cab |
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| Am sure a Fergie 35 would be quite adequate... |
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| This is the damn at Pierre apparently |
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| Combines, tractors and trucks - Phil's in Paradise! |
After a funny day at work got home for about 6:30. Tea then dog walked. Then up the hill and 8 holes of golf - nothing to report in terms of performance - parred three of the holes, hit some nice longish (for me drives) remembered a neat way of pitching - weaken left hand grip and imagine you're hitting the ball wityh the back of your hand sort of thing. Anyway it was nice to be out and about.
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| Second tee - low sun just what you need! |
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| Runner beans runner anywheyer they wanna |
Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Dog walked early doors, paper fetched. Into office early as usual. Back home for a bit after 6pm. Tea. Dog walk. Bit of golf interrupted by a hot air balloon coming down somewhere near our house!
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| Balloon coming down at a pace over Greenacres! |
Down lotty for more watering about 9.10pm and the nights are deffo closing in.
Wednesday 23rd July 2014
Up dead early with the symphony that is Nobby Clarke's lorry revving up at 4:06am. Never mind, got up proper at 5:30, took lil dog up town, got papers and then got to work before 8am. All good stuff! Went to group only a pound on after much alcohol and stuff so pleased with that over two weeks - need to get my head right soon though. Back home for 6:30. Tea then dog walked then had a practice setting up the new Coleman Instant Dome 3 tent on front lawn - it should go up in a minute so it took me about five minutes on first attempt mainly because the video on youtube of how to do it is a bit deceptive about one point in my view. Anyway the main thing is that it's dead easy and not too bad to take down either.
After mucking about with tent and what have you it was down to the lotty for the obligatory watering. A few more bevvies then off to bed.
Thursday 24th July 2014
Up at about 5:55. Dog walked, papers fetched then off to work. In for just after 8.10, not too bad with a stop for petrol on the way. Good day in the office got loads done. Back home for a bit after 6pm. Tea. Dog Walked. Allotment. Got some camping stuff ready. Game of Thrones - whopper of an episode can't believe who had been killed off in this one. Not going to spoil it for anyone but then again we're a good series (or season as people say these days) behind so I probably could say who it is but I won't.
Friday 25th July 2014
Up at 5am. Dog walked, papers fetched, back home for 6:15. Breakfast ready for work and in the office for 7.30 all steady stuff. Loads of emails and stuff done and it's not even 9am! Got away from work a bit after 3pm. Back home loaded up. Set off for 4.15, spent an age sitting on the M6 but got to Valley about 8pm - Becks from Valley Baits got us some bait which was great so friday night wasn't wasted. A few drinky poos and a bit of fishing. Caught a pouting, our Andrew had a couple of dogfish - no gear lost which was goo.
Saturday 26th July 2014
Up at crack of dawn so walked to the point and back. Had a sausage and bacon barm (or cob if you're in the East Midlands) from Vic's son's new venture the sizzlin kitchen butty van. Very nice.
Sea was like a millpond so we first fitted the Lowrance DSI fishfinder before a quite long yak session to do a reconnaisance mission - find the deepest water. It's a temporary install, the transducer is fitted to a scupper bung under the right foot, the battery is in a little sealed box on a shelf inside the front hatch - have left the wiring in place for when we go back in a couple of weeks Hopefully have the weather with us to do a trip northwards to a spot we found.
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| This is the fishfinder |
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| This was after going east from Church Bay towards Holyhead - on the land there is a big beached boat |
We did about five miles (our Andrew reckons and found a top spot round the point where the water is 40 foot deep just a 100 yards off the rocks!
Dug some bait in the afternoon and then a BBQ in the evening but we got downed. Fortunately a nice couple in the tent up the hill offered us shelter. They live in Bonsall, how small a world it is! So couple of burgers and then a night session of fishing on the main beach. Dogfish after dogfish after dogfish then finished off with an incredibly slimy eel, yuk. Sea was still like a millpond - apparently this suits the doggies down to the ground - if there's a bit of life in the sea they're nowhere to be seen as apparently they can't deal with the sand in their gills - so that's the sort of conditions we need.
Sunday 27th July 2014
Up at 4:30. Snoozed a bit then a walk on the beach and back to recover some bits that our Andrew had left behind and ring the missus up. Another butty from the van. Stuff put away, set off at about 11.35 and back home for 3pm ish. Dog walked. Tea at Stepping Stones - quick service when you go at 4pm - very nice. Took dog a big walk. Spoke to Phil. Down the lotty to dig out a load of spuds - to make some space for another row of peas - apparently July is the last chance to plant peas so I've had some growing in pots for a few weeks. Brought some harvest back too.
16/3.5
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