Holidays

We are just back from a very wet week camping in Wales.

Stayed 3 miles outside the very nice town of Machynlleth, site of the UK singlespeed champs back in, erm, er, 2005 I think, I'll dig out the t-shirt and check that date.

Katya was not impressed with the weather, we may not be camping in Wales again.

Rutland Water

We had an afternoon at Rutland Water yesterday.

The Osprey chicks are due to hatch any day now and the hide at Lydon was very busy.

I've seen the Ospreys before, the highlight of my day was seeing my first Waterail, a very pretty We also saw a huge Grass Snake swimming in one of the ponds, easily 4ft long.

A cool day.

Stoneage tools

When we stayed with Craig Watson, my father-in-law, we went hunting stone tools around Philippolis, Free State.

He has a great deal of knowledge of these tools and used to go collecting them with his brother Lyall Watson, the author of Supernature and numerous other books.

These tools were made and used by bushmen and can be found on the surface near rocky outcrops. It was great fun hunting for them and gave me a buzz finding something last handled around 70,000 yrs ago.

Married!

Married!
Originally uploaded by salsaboy

Here are the happy couple at Sammy Marks.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

South Africa and marriage

So, we got back from South Africa a week ago.

Katya and I got married at the Nan Hua buddhist temple near Pretoria. It was a very special day for us, we kept it very simple and had a picnic afterwards at the Sammy Marks centre.

I've been sorting through the 1000+ photos we took between us and posting them on Flickr.

It's going to keep me busy for a couple of months at the present rate of progress.