Back from where?

I can't believe it has been more than 6 months since I last posted on here. Amazing how much time doing nothing in particular can take out of your life. Although I have to say keeping up with the little ones is the thing that keeps me busy during the day and makes sure I go to bed and sleep at night.

After getting back from NZ I left UBS for a job at Lehman Brothers in Canary Wharf here in London. I had a bit of a result in the way of a months "gardening" leave which was tagged straight onto the NZ holiday.

Although I would love to say that I played loads of golf I didn't. There was loads to do with the kids and around the house including pulling down a wall which there was no way I was going to miss out on. We also bought a 1959 Land Rover Series II as a station car for me. This was a move intended as both a way to get to the station and a vehicle that we can use for enjoyment on the weekends.

you not familiar with the term involves driving on legal rights of ways(Roads) which have never been sealed. Lots of enjoyment and the good thing was the whole family could come along. However we quickly established that the 1959 Land Rover was rather smelly and had absolutely no comfortable parts to it. After a couple of trips out as a family we got decided to change our 7 seater family car for a Discovery which would be more comfortable and less smelly. It worked a treat and we ended up with a 1998 high spec Discovery with a V8 engine. Luckily it had been converted to run on LPG so the costs are not as bad as the engine mightI joined the Essex Land Rover club and started doing a fair bit of green laning which for those of suggest.

In August we spent a week in Wales and drove some pretty unforgettable lanes. It was good to get out on some terrain that is not more or less flat as it is around our way in Essex. Also driving on rock instead of clay makes you think about what you are doing a lot more as mistakes will not always just mean being stuck. One of the most memorable lanes on the holiday was below the Claerwen dam. It started with fording a river and cut its way along the river. At times you could have sworn the river was higher than the road and that is probably why you were driving in bumper deep water.

As for the golf I have not been out so much over the summer. It has been so hot and my game suffers in the heat as I tend to blow up at about the 14th hole. (good excuse anyhow).I have however played a couple of good competition rounds in the meantime and managed to reduce my handicap to 13 which is pretty much what I was aiming for before the start of the summer.

That will be the update for now folks. I am going to try and update more regularly and post some more pics to keep things a little more interesting. (No Promises though)