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JOGLE – Overview

Sorry for the lack of updates during JOGLE, but we didn’t have very good wi-fi signals most of the time and therefore couldn’t post to the weblog. I will make amends over the next few days though and will post for each day as soon as I get the chance. In the meantime, here’s an...

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JOGLE Day 1 – John O’Groats to Inverness

Daily Stats – Day 1 Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Metres Climbed: 5112 feet Time Riding: 7:15:58 Average Speed: 16.2 mph Total Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Total Ascent: 5112 feet Total Time Riding: 7:15:58 Todays Weather: Misty, Sunny then rain rain rain. Day 1 of JOGLE and we had all met at Thurso the night before...

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JOGLE Day Minus 1 – Thurso Bound

Another early start so that we could get on the road and not have to rush was rewarded by some amazing views through Glencoe with the low morning sun lighting the mountains. We set off from the Youth Hostel is Crianlarich at around 6:30am after a quick coffee and made our way towards Fort William....

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JOGLE Day Minus 2 – Wild Swimming in Loch Lomond

Holiday time!!! if you can call cycling the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Lands End a ‘holiday’.. Or driving it for that matter as that’s what Anna will be doing acting as support crew along with Morgan. Before we could do that though we had the small matter of driving North to John...

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JOGLE Tracking Technology

As you should know by now we are about to embark on a charity cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End in aid of JDRF (Click here to support the charity and sponsor our ride). We are just about ready to start heading up to John O’Groats in order to start the ride on...

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Taking the Basic Beekeeping Assessment

Our beekeeping adventures continue and we have now taken the WBKA Basic Beekeeping Assessment. There is no obligation for beekeepers to do such things but as beekeeping has always been a hobby for us rather than a money-making or even honey-making scheme, this just seemed like another aspect to the hobby. Study Groups For us,...

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JOGLE Toes

My toes are ready for Jogle – now to work on the rest of my body which is well and truly overweight at the moment. It’s been a while since I’ve been this fat!

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Honey Bee Photo

For some reason, depsite the flowers on offer, our honey bees are rarley seen foraging in our garden. It’s nice when we do see them though and a good opportunity to snap them in action. I quite like this shot of one of them feeding on some Verbena.

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Snorkelling in Borth

We’re certainly making the most of the Summer Holidays. It may only be the first day but with gorgeous weather there’s just so much to do. If only we could have some proper time off at home to fit it all in. Morgan and I have been busy today though. After our Big Butterfly Count...