Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

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Boxing day barrel rolling at Grantchester

After yesterdays gluttony we just had to have a semi decent walk today, for some reason I wanted to walk to Grantchester, in hindsight because I had seen the signs for the annual barrel rolling in Grantchester last week!.

However, I had completely forgotten about that when we set off! I was also wanting to try the new start/end route for my Scholars Way Cambridge/Oxford walk using the permissive paths from Grantchester to Barton.

This is the route we took. 13.5miles in lovely winter sunshine.

Boxing day walk & barrel rolling in Grantchester

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And here is a great shot of an ace barrel roller:-

Top notch barrel roller
Top notch barrel roller

2008 in pictures

Here is the lovely smiling Sally during 2008 , from having her fortune read at Caroline’s New Years Eve party to our latest walk last weekend.

From Sally in 2008

Or you can look at all the pictures here

Quite fascinating to see all the activities we do together, walking, skiing & swimming + 🙂

What a brilliant year 🙂

Apologies..

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of
people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage
of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

A very apt quotation especially after hearing Wodehouse mentioned in a BBC radio programme yesterday, where he was being interviewed for treason!

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Winter Solstice walk

Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by  Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley.

Cambridge Ramblers – Balsham WAlk

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A surprising hilly walk with a total climb of 1700ft in the day!  across quite a few freshly ploughed fields. The walk was enhanced with mulled wine and minced pies 🙂

More stats 🙂

Elevation and speed against distance walked
Elevation and speed against distance walked