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Kitchen Chemistry

Morgan the scientist doing some chemistry in the kitchen. It looks like a volcano experiment to me!

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Party Rings

Foolish Boy!!!

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Home Grown Sweet Potatoes

I’m not really sure what the difference between a sweet potato and a yam is, but we’ve been quite successful growing them this year. We didn’t really expect them to do that well, but they’ve been sat in pots both in the conservatory and out potato planters in the garden and have been growing away....

2012 ITU Age-Group World Triathlon Championships, Auckland – Race Report 12

2012 ITU Age-Group World Triathlon Championships, Auckland – Race Report

After a fitfull sleep my day started at 4:30am with a caffeinated coffee, porridge and Beet-it beetroot juice for breakfast. This was followed by a shower and getting my stuff ready to go. I then walked down through Auckland CBD to transition area with Graham and Sharon at 5:30am, had my helmet checked and started setting...

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Have Gadgets – Will Travel

I can’t quite believe the number of gadgets we have packed ready for our trip to New Zealand: Garmin Forerunner 910XT GPS watch and Heart Rate monitor for training with. Camera – Canon EOS 450D complete with extra battery pack, 3 lenses and various bits and pieces Camera – Pentax Optio W60 – Little waterproof compact...

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Flight+ Review – Flight Tracking app for iPad

Not being a seasoned traveller I’ve never had the need for any flight tracking apps on my iPad but with an impending trip to New Zealand on the horizon I thought I’d check some out and ended up using Flight+, a really clever app designed to track and manage flights all around the world. It’s really...

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation 0

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation

~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...

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Beating Jetlag

One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...

Crazy Road Bike Stunts 0

Crazy Road Bike Stunts

Too clever by far!!! Nice to see some shots of unconventional riding in Bristol too.

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Scout Camp with Bear Grylls

We spent last weekend at Scout Camp down the coast a little. We spent the week leading up to it organising things and then set off with tents and camping kit straight from school on Friday afternoon, heading for a muddy field south of Newquay. We made a quick stop at Llanrhystud for some sand...