Darren Roberts’ Home Baked Blog

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Second Week of training completed now for the New Forest Half Marathon - progressing nicely, no major niggles or injuries yet, touch wood.

Link to training info here.

First week of training completed - have given it 4 weeks to get up to some sort of standard - link to training info for the new forest half marathon here.

Well, it’s about 4 weeks to the New Forest Half Marathon, so I thought I’d better start getting in some training. having run casually for the last year or two, it’s a bit of a step up from my usual 5k jogs on the beach to the 20k or so of a half marathon. Link to my training and thoughts for the New Forest Marathon here.

On our visit to Bath in April, we stumbled across something brilliant to do. Quite by chance my wife came across a leaflet for Bizarre Bath - The Comedy Walk. Having had a bit of a disaster booking the accommodation and the entertainment myself (guest house I booked aka Fawlty Towers, and both of us fell asleep half way through the show I’d booked…) I decided it would be a great idea to go with my wife’s idea.

Really glad we did too - the Bizarre Bath Comedy Walk really does do what it says on the tin - it’s rib-crackingly funny, bizarre and worth every penny of the 8 quid each we paid to tag along and become part of the mayhem.

The ‘tour guide’ (let’s be honest, he must be a very professional stand up artist posing as a tour guide) brilliantly weaves a show from the sights and sounds, buildings, streets and waterways, dragging in on-lookers and creating a big bubble which you all nearly forget you’re in.

I’d give it a 10/10 rating and would recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour looking for something a bit different to the run of the mill tourist attractions!

Bizarre Bath

The sandwich. Check out this little beauty…..mmmmmm. A combination of my wife’s home-baked walnut and sultana bread rolls, toasted, with melted cheese, grilled red peppers, houmus, cucumber and black pepper…banging.

Okay, I’ve done as much as I’ll do for a bit on the snowboarding trip to Schladming now, maybe I’ll add a few more pics, or the vids when I can get them to either work or upload to You Tube…

Snowboarding, Schladming, Austria 26/01/08 to 02/02/08