Archive for January, 2008
Walking round, nutting Stuff
I was feeling the winter yesterday. As I sat at my desk rubbing my hands together to keep out the cold I realised suddenly that I was feeling a bit crap. Obviously that’s because I’ve been working far too much. I needed to unplug and go skiing, so that’s what I did this morning. It [...]
Cookin’ like I’m Campin’
So I’ve been living in the office this winter, and one thing it lacks is a proper kitchen. I have a microwave & my camping gas stove, plus a small frying pan, couple of plates and a few bits of cutlery. It’s a bit like camping, I love it! I’m getting quite good at it [...]
Discipline & routine
You know when your alarm goes off in the morning and you have no choice but to haul yourself out of bed? Well, you could hit snooze a couple of times, but really you just have to get on with things. Get up, get dressed and make your way to your job and start the [...]
Back to work
Much as I’ve enjoyed skiing so much this season, it’s time to get back to work. I’ve been in front of the computer all day and I’m feeling exhausted. It’s made me realise how little time I’ve been spending in front of the screen recently, and I’m going to need to get used to that [...]
Mad as lorries
Global Economic slowdown? Good! Why do we we want everything to be so fast anyway? Everyone’s running round as mad as lorries as it is! Slowing everything down a bit can only help. Housing market crash, pension time bombs, recession, credit crunch, blah blah blah. Forget about it. It’s self-perpetuating media hyped bullshit anyway. Focus [...]
A full quiver
Another great day up on the mountain today. It’s getting silly now - fresh tracks all over Flegere all morning and then I was skiing with Mark and his intermediate course taking photos and shooting some video. Here’s the photoset
I was skiing on my new skis (yes, that’s ANOTHER new pair of skis. I now [...]
Modern Toss - New series
A new series of Modern Toss coming soon to your tellybox. Here’s a clip….
Skiing like an acrobat
I broke my skis today. Well, actually I just ripped the binding off, so I’m sure they can be fixed. I was skiing in Le Tour, off piste in the mist. I thought ‘ooh, I’d better cut out of this section before I hit the gully’ BANG! I hit the vertical wall of he gully [...]
Looking after myself. And Sisu.
Sunday was an amazing day’s skiing, as I breathlessly wrote the other day, but it’s amazing how quickly things turn upside down. I went up the Grands Montets again yesterday afternoon. Feeling a little jaded, and the weather had closed in. It was cold, cloudy and difficult to see the bumps, of which there were [...]
epic
There’s a word skiers use to describe days like today. epic. It’s when the weather, the snow and timing conspires to make it the most perfect day on the mountain. Some epic days turn up when you’re not expecting it, and some you can tell are in the post and all you have to do [...]
