Category Archives: Blog

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Angus’s Seventh Birthday

19 Oct Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

A lovely day in itself to go and spend the day celebrating my nephew Angus’s 7th birthday on Saturday – and all the fun that this entails, but was was extra special was that we drove less than an hour to their new home in … Read More →

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Ozzy – our Ladyboy Rabbit

5 Oct Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Humour. 1 Comment.

A funny thing happened this morning. After Lily got a 12 week old female rabbit called Daisy for her birthday in September, our three year old Rabbit to a great interest in climbing on her back – immediately – as rabbits do (all rabbits, it … Read More →

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Three Peaks Cyclocross 2009

28 Sep Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Mountains, Sport. 10 Comments.

Well that was lots of fun and very satisfying. I’ve ridden every three peaks cyclocross now since 1995 and apart from a broken seatpost in 1999 about 3 miles into the race, I’ve completed them all. But today was the sweetest for me. The last … Read More →

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Lily’s seventh birthday

7 Sep Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

Lily turned 7 yesterday and we celebrated with a smallish but perfectly formed family and friends gathering. Lily’s ‘main’ present was another bunny rabbit called Daisy, 12 weeks old, who was greeted by Lily’s male rabbit Ozzy in a VERY enthusiastic way. They’re being kept … Read More →

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Summer Holiday in Wales – Ogwen Bank

19 Aug Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

A third family holiday this year for us Haygarths in the UK – the ‘Staycation’ (or ‘Holistay’ – a more ‘English’ version of the new term I prefer) has really come of age. We booked a ‘log cabin’ (or really more a pine lodge – … Read More →

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Gisburn Forest Mountinbike Trails… now with added fun.

7 Aug Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Sport. 1 Comment.

I managed to finally get to ride most of the best bits (I think) of the new MTB trails at Gisburn Forest last night. I must say I was impressed. I’d be primed / appetite whetted by a combination of Matthew, some photos by Andy … Read More →

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Blackburn Grand Prix – Back in Black(burn)

22 Jul Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

I spent a strange but ace year of my education at Blackburn College in 1990/91 and it’ll always hold some great memories for me. This evening I rode in the town centre race there and had a good ride. I’m glad I did – I … Read More →

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Manchester International Festival – ‘The Great Indoors’

12 Jul Filed under Art / Design, Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

Ace day on Saturday – we took Lily and Elsie into ‘The Great Indoors‘ a wonderful collection of children’s creative activities and performances all over the insides of Manchester’s Town Hall, as part of the Manchester International Festival. We met up with Sally, Sim and … Read More →

Don’t blog around much anymore

15 Jun Filed under Blog. No comments.

You’ll have heard it numerous times from numerous people, but things are so busy at the moment… I haven’t fogotten about Minnellium.com and I know that the quality and frequency has really taken a big dive, but the way that social media is heading, I’m … Read More →

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A slow recovery

22 May Filed under Blog. 2 Comments.

I had my checkup earlier today at the hospital 34 days after my crash at Lee Quarry that gave me a broken collarbone.  I’m so intrigued about the healing process that my body has gone through so far. When I first had my X-Ray on … Read More →