Category Archives: Featured Articles

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Nativity 2009 – double the Christmassiness

23 Dec Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Video. No comments.

We got a double whammy this year for the first time – Lily’s nativity plays have been a source of parental pride for the last few years but this year was also Elsie’s first public performance – in her nursery nativity this year. The snow … Read More →

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Jenny: 18 = me: old

4 Dec Filed under Audio, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Other Music, Video. 1 Comment.

The little baby that my sister in law Fiona and her husband Graeme had in 1991 – not very much further back than yesterday, it feels, is 18. Like millions of others before me, the coming of age of a close relative has really brought … Read More →

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Wheelbase Cyclocross – organisational skills to the test

4 Dec Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport, Video. 2 Comments.

It seems to be ground hog day. The torment is the same each year. I plan the course, I rope in everyone that’s needed. I liaise endlessly with the council, I pack the car late at night, I get up early… then – somehow – … Read More →

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Cooling the blood

17 Nov Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Having complained about thinkgs not being muddy enough for my cyclocross preferences all the first part of the season, the muddy conditions have finally come. It’s been a mixed blessing though. I certainly haven’t had things all my own way.

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Little Haygarths cyclocross racing @ Brockhole

17 Nov Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Lily and her cousin Angus had a muddy but brilliant time racing their bikes at the Lakes RC cyclocross at Brockhole (the Lake District National Park visitor centre on the shores of Lake Windermere).

elsie-haverigg

Half term hols… a Cumbrian secret

17 Nov Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

We discovered a lovely thing about Cumbria in half term that you mustn’t let on. When we said we were going to a caravan park for four nights near Millom, we were generally met with distaste and grumpiness. Cumbria has in the heart of it … Read More →

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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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Lily’s first Cyclocross of 2009

4 Oct Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 4 Comments.

We just had a lovely weekend – a very deliberate effot to stay away from exercise for me after the intense and selfish build-up to the Theww Peaks last weekend – and a weekend of just hanging out at home and doing simple things with … 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 →