Author: Alan Cole

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Norway Trip Part 4 – Flåm, Myrdal and Gol

After a good night’s sleep in our apartment, we were fully recovered from our kayaking expedition. Today we would retrace our paddle strokes aboard a boat and then continue along the Aurlandsfjord to Flåm. From here we’d head back into the mountains to rejoin the Bergen to Oslo train heading for our evening destination of...

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Norway Trip Part 3 – Sea Kayaking in the Fjords

Our train trip across Norway took a bit of a detour here. Rather than continuing on the train from Voss to Myrdal we were missing a bit out and heading north a little to the village of Gudvangen at the end of the Nærøyfjord. Here we would meet up with a kayaking group tour that...

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Norway Trip Part 2 – Voss

After another hearty breakfast at our hotel in Bergen, we boarded the tram once again to head into the City Centre. This time we had all of our luggage with us. Large rucksacks on our backs and smaller ones on our front. It was surprisingly comfortable, but not something we’d want to carry too far!...

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Norway Trip Part 1 – Bergen

Time for a few posts about our recent trip to Norway. It was a holiday with a number of objectives. I think we ticked all of the boxes, so I’ll start at the beginning with a nice relaxed drive to Manchester. Getting to Norway The original plan was to drive up early, stop somewhere nearby...

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Nanoleaf Lights

The Memories section of Facebook is awash with big events for me in June. There are happy memories of becoming European Triathlon Champion and not such happy memories of a massive heart attack. Anna decided to celebrate the fact that I’d survived the latter, and that I was still here by buying me a present....

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Larvae Everywhere!

It seems as though my somewhat experimental preemptive artificial swarm technique has, at least to a certain extent, worked. With only one colony surviving the winter we wanted to ‘make increase’ this year. The fact that this colony had taken up residence in a hive next to the bedroom window also meant that there weren’t...

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Conservatory Refurbishment

Having had a nice new ceiling fitted to the conservatory, which has made it more habitable, it was time for an interior design makeover. The fact that it was usually far too hot in the summer and far too cold in the winter meant that we hadn’t been sitting out there so it had become...

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Cereals

I’ve not long got back from an exhausting couple of days at the ‘Cereals Event’ in Nottinghamshire where I was manning the Biomass Connect stand. I know I don’t often post about work-related things, but as this was a little different and I had some photos I thought I would. It was tiring thanks to...

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Bryant’s Gulley

Rhys and I headed up to North Wales to scramble up Bryant’s Gulley earlier in the week. After 4 weeks of bone dry, sunny weather there was some rain the night before. Not loads but the guidebook starts by saying: The route is ideal on a warm spring or summer’s day after a prolonged period...

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The Crazy Weather of Ynyslas

The weather has been fairly unusual across the UK these last few weeks. No rain and wall-to-wall sunshine is quite strange at any time of year for the UK. Ynyslas has been no exception in this regard. The weather station here has had notifications such as this for days. It hasn’t rained at all since...