bleugh....

I hate feeling ill...

Yesterday I started to feel sick and I'm hardly ever sick - I'm just hoping that I will be ok for holidays next week.
Off to Wales tomorrow for a surprise 50th Birthday lunch too..

Had to cancel my climbing course till I come back of holidays seemed a bit pointless starting and then having to wait 4 weeks till I could go again. So all will be sorted when I come backs.

Have found some cracking walks in the Andorra region for holidays.How could I go all that way and not take in some of the views!! Would have to be mad. So my boots and the MacPac are 1st in the car. Camera will be on charge ready.

The Trail Forum are organising a get together in July and it's looking like it's going to be a busy one!! It's nice that something so simple can turn into an adventure.

Elli my gorgeous 2 and 1/2 year old keeps asking to go walking - a moment that all mothers wait for. Lately whenever we go to Blacks she is off around the store with their brightly flowered walking poles again it makes my heart swell with lurve...

So I was wondering obviously want to get her involved - thinking of taking her to the Visitors Centre on Dunstable Downs today - its 243m which I think would be a nice starting point for her.
I've put a post on the Trail Forum asking for some help with how to tackle it though. She will obviously want to walk some of it and then she'll more than likely want to be carried. So do I take the other rucksack incase of that.
I suppose it's all to do with planning and I'll need to get better at it.

On another good note - someone else is going my september team for the 3 peaks and I got the 1st form back the other day!

Also only 9 days to hols. Still researching walks in the pyrenees - woohoo!!

Lots of thinking and stuff...

So anyway I can't go on the final trail trip and I'm in two minds about it. Part of me is so exhausted that I can't even feel sadness about not going, but then I'll get a moment where I feel abit sad that I am not. But on the same note I am so excited about going to france and being really close to Mountains that I can't wait and I think that is what is keeping me going.

I think that what I have really been thinking about is just life in general and how you really shouldn't worry about things that you can't change and that you do have to live life as each day is your last. Always tell the people you love that you do love them! (prehaps more often then you already do) and don't be afraid to try new things as one day you'll think I won't be able to do that now.

I keep having these pondering moment - they scare me!!

What life is all about!!

Today you can stuff mountains because I have had the best news in a very long time!!

My best friend who I done the 18 mile walk for is currently in theatre having a kidney. I am so happy and yet so scared for her - it really has been a long and hard journey for her. So I am keeping my fingers crossed!

This is what makes life worth living

The end or just the beginning...

With alot of hard thought I have had to decide not to go on the trip next week.
There are lots of reasons for this,
having to work a 12 hour day and then travel at least 5-6 hours is not my idea of a start to a good weekend. I will be knackered when I arrive and won't get a good nights sleep plus I'll have to disrupt everyone else to get into the YHA.
I've got the tax returns to be done before I go away on hols (a fine or a trip to the lakes??)
And then I've misplaced mine and pauls passports - not the best start to a holiday.

So I've decided that I've probably got too much other stuff on. Am I dissapointed - yes.but at the same time I've learnt so much and had so many opportunities over the last 6 months that I would never have had if I hadn't applied for the academy. I will always be thankful for that.

Its opened up a whole new world for me and really this is just the start for me. I will be contuining with the blog, not I imagine many people read this - but its therapeutic!!

10 days to go!!

Woohoo - another trail trip, but the last (boohoo!!) although I do keep asking if we can have a reunion. The only problem is that I have to work until 6pm and then drive through friday rush hour to get to the lake district.

So lots to start getting ready with holidays too.

And now I have to go to our NHS walk in centre because I ahve sliced my hand open with a knife - so waiting for it to get quiet.

On another note - my climbing course next week has to be changed becuase my manager is having some well deserved days off.

Holidays!!

Yippee, 3 weeks to go - so I am planning our trip now there is so much to do there - wth some cracking walks. One thing that paul hates is sedetary holidays - so now he'll have no excuse but to get out there. There is even a mountain on the doorstep plus the Pyreenes!!

Took the children out on a bike ride which was good fun have to get used to change of gravity with having a seat on the back. Planning on taking the bikes with us. So even with all that lovely french bread and cakes the plans I've got for over there I should come back lighter.

PS has anyone seen the Via Ferrata in the Lake District - wonder what thats going to be like?

Finally taken the plunge....

Or should that be the climb!! After 5 months of wanting to do it - today I booked my introduction to climbing course. My first lesson will be the 19th of this month. Wanted to get it all sorted before I go on holidays. SO here we go - was watching some children have ago at it today and they made it look so easy. At least the children will be be back in school and wont be laughing at me when I give it a try.

Tried our jetboil today and boy is it fast - my cup of tea and dinner will now be quicker than a flask and sandwiches out on the mountain!

Bought myself a lovely pink life venture thermal mug and elli a 500ml camelbak. Over the last few years we have bought her so many cups and they have all leaked - I know this one doesn't - so well worth the money. Off on a bike ride tomorrow seeing as the weather is gorgeous!!

Bargains and good weather to boot!!

So the sun is shining and the bargains have arrived. If you are new to this walking lark and don't want to spend lots of money then you need to get yourself down to Aldi's. I got a soft shell, a fleece, some shorts and gaiters and it cost less than £30... Absolute bargain and if it only lasts a few months but does it's job - can't fault it!!

So with the sun in mind, a bbq, a trip to ellis brigham (it's being booked tomorrow) and blacks, a bit of camping in the garden and a bike ride - a perfect easter weekend!

Highs and Lows

Well I'll start with the lows - public apology time!

Sarah, I just read your blog and I never meant to insult or upset you. I know that you would have hated Friday because the walk was not expected in that way. You should know by now that I never intentionally mean to cause harm - so I'm sorry.

On another low note - its coming to the end of the tax year - yuck so means that my 50 hours in actual work and then another 30 hours at home have just got longer - bleugh!!!

But the highs

according to trail this month I have won a Jack Wolfskin Grow Up ( its a childrens sleeping bag - woohoo!!!) so me and elli are camping in the garden this weekend so I can test my new tent ready for some wild camping.

I now have 5 people wanting to join me for the 3 peaks cahllenge in September - everytime I seem to log into a forum - they are waiting - so really happy, plus its a big kick up the a$@e that I have to do more training!!!

Plus once I get my climbing course booked this week I can start planning next years charity event.
I persuaded Paul that it was cheaper to do a climbing course than get my boobs done!! so he is more than happy!!! ;)