Ladbrokes or Sadblokes
Amusing defacement of the Ladbrokes betting shop frontage in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, UK
Apparently there was resistance to them opening up a bookies there hence the more apt title of Sadblokes 
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Pennine Way – First 100 miles
Today I passed the 100mile mark whilst dropping down into Hawes. I now only 155 miles to go. George appeared at the cafe and whisked me off to Kendal and some fine cooking and shoulder massage. His wife Jacqui (A professional podiatrist) also introduced me to to the wonders of Hapla Fleecy Web (made by Cuxson & Gerrard but don’t bother clicking it) for fixing blisters, hopefully that should cure the small blister that appeared on my right heel a couple of days ago.
Tomorrow is a short day to Keld, where I will meet up with Chris again and then its several days of 20+ miles culminating in the grand finale next Wednesday with a 25mile dash across the Cheviots.
The story so far is:-
Day 1 – Edale to Crowden 13.2 miles (5%) 37,606 steps in just under 8 hours. Fine clear
Day 2 – Crowden to Torside 11 miles (9%) 29,029 steps in just over 6 hours. Fine clear
Day 3 – Torside to Colden 16.6 miles (16%) 35,763 steps in 6.5 hours. Fine sunny
Day 4 – Colden to Cowling 15.2 miles (22%) 28,385 steps in just under 6 hours. Fine
Day 5 – Cowling to Malham 17.7 miles (29%) 31,186 steps in 7 hours 20 mins. Showers
Day 6 – Malham to Horton 13.3 miles (34%) 33,293 steps in 6 hours Windy Showers
Day 7 – Horton to Hawes 14 miles (40%) 24,679 steps in 5 hours Fine to sunny
I’ve been taking pictures with the Treo every hour but cannot p[ut them up yet 🙁
The Pennine Way first couple of days
Made it to Malham and many thanks to Simon the owner of Beck Hall B&B who has loaned me this laptop so I can do an entry.
Wed 26 April 2006
Caught train from Cambridge to Edale a pretty good service leaving at 15.10 and arriving at 19.47. Stayed at The Rambler Country House Hotel not very impressive but OKish (but do avoid in the summer seeing the vast armada of tables in the garden). However their inepitude at breakfast worked to my advantage, see below.
Thurs 27th April
Went down to breakfast for 8am to find a fellow walker bemoaning the fact that the staff were still asleep and that someone was trying to rowse them. Turned out that he was a fellow Pennine Way traveller called Chris Lloyd. We got chatting and decided to set of together once the staff had sorted out breakfast (mainly as Chris wanted his picture taken at the start). We got under way at 9.30. We both seemed to go at a similar pace and discovered we had both booked into the same b&b the next night too, so we stayed together crossing Kinder and Bleaklow. At Bleaklow Head I did my usual trick of taking a wrong path 🙁 However, Chris’s old GPS quickly sorted us out!)
We arrived at The Old House, Torside at 5pm having walked 13.5 miles of the PW plus a mile or so extra. The weather was good with the going mainly dry the paved sections really helping compared to the bogs 41 years ago. Having washed and changed, Joanna drove us to The Peel Arms in Padfield for an excellent dinner and beer with gorgeous sticky toffee pudding. Padtax (01457862321) took as back for a fiver. The Old House was good and Joanne is a very friendly hostess.
Friday 28th April
Cambridge Evening News
Ellee and I (well mainly Ellee) have had our second blogging article published in The Cambridge Evening News today (over 40 column inches!).
The article is currently on the internet at this page it will be interesting to see how long it remains there. before disappearing into the great CEN silo never to re-appear.