Paragliding - nothing much happened for me for weeks - did go to field behind Sherriffmuir and had a few hours of first day paragliding ground handling practice with Utopia harness.
Swimming - most weeks 2 -4 times - started going to Loanhead at lunchtimes - nice. Still rubbish and if doing a fast 50m still tending to be about 45 seconds so unhappy with that.
Holiday - booked a few days down in London in August staying at Tony and Xijuan + Alyssa`s. Ping had an excellent time in China and I think I had more jet lag than she had on her return!
Saturday 4th and 11th July 2010 Ping purchased a new diamond ring - so collected on the 11th - very nice.
Sunday 12th - just went for a short walk with Ping from Menstrie - rest of weekend mainly spent watching videos from Love Film.
Children of Men - possible the weakest of all these watched - story about a world where no children born over 18 year period.
Old Boy - enjoyable but quite viloent and disturbing in places but very good. Man kidnapped for 15 years and has to find out why when released ....
Nathalie - story about a wife who is suspecting her husband (Gerard Depardeu) of being unfaithful .. - very good. and finally
Departures - Japanese film about a musician who changes career - fantastic / emotional / beautifully filmed - a masterpiece I think - thoroughly recommended.
Recently Gregor at work kindly got a range of negatives scanned onto cd for me so here are a few examples from the past : - Above my hang-glider - Vision 5 large on Mam Tor with the cement works in the distance and below Hang-glider training on or near Blacka Moor on a training day with Steve Hudson on the left - from way back in time say late 1980s or early 90s!
And from an early skiing trip to Courcheval I think ...
Richard and I hillwalking one winter a long long time ago ....
