pretty flowers

i was bored, thought id muck about with posterising things and drawing etc....

Walking with in-tent

Our weekend camp in dartmoor started of on friday. Me Ali, Chriss and Steve - flat mates made a list of what items we would need for the weekend, and after some packing went to the shops and brought food inlcuding a disposable bbq to have the same night.

Back in the kitchen we cooked up pasta salad- thinking ahead how good it would be to have with a bbq or with luncheon the following day.

Finally we were all ready and caught the bus from breaton side bus station in plymouth (me walking down with flip flops on - not ideal when it pouring with rain and i have heavy bags).

We arrived at our destiantion- Buckfastleigh, a small countryside town- perhaps only big enough to be a town by the fact it had a town centre; but with 3 pubs and a co-op what more do ya need!?.

A short ride up the road to the camp site from our friendly london cab driver and we errected the tent in the rain. Someone told me that rain will pass after 4 hours... If we learn nothing else from this weekend it is that "rain will pass in 4 hours" is complete bollox.

After getting sorted a bit of an explore was in order...making sure we kept Chriss away from the sheep we eventually made it to town... they have 3 pubs...would have been rude not to stop!.....a welcome break from the rain and a chance to chat to a couple of the locals. Over a pint of real ale we discussed issues such as beards, going to bristol, and the quaint counrty town of Buckfastleigh.

We headed back for some bbq. We discovered in the pouring rain disposable bbqs have the bad points...we proceeded to move the bbq, the meat and the beers into the tent and cook it there. Alas our efforts were in vain. We fried the meat and dried our self of after the short walk back from the town... after a couple of drinks we decided best to catch some sleep for the walk via hembury woods the next day.


A night of little/on and off sleep was had by all 4 of us. We made a move around 10/11 ish after some porrige and tea cooked up inside the tent on a gas burner. Steves soultion to soaking wet boots was to put tesco bags in his shoes; my boots were damp after the preveios day- however a coating of fat from the pan we had cooked the meat in helped the water proofness.

Alot of the first half of the walk was along roads, and Chriss who had rented a video camera for the weekend filmed various parts of it as we walked along...The weather had cleared up a little since the night before, with only light showers to start.

The hightlight for me at least was approaching a barn about half way- shelted from the wind and rain and lots of soft hay every where..."hmm...wonder if we could perhaps eat lunch there without the farmer noticing" we said....

We managed to get lost a few times, but all good fun really...the second half of the day was then fuelled by mars bars, bannanas, and 2 helpings of pasta salad- perfect!

The second half was far more scenic, and through woodland instead of roads. We eventually came to the town were we found a small pub for a beer...Maybe not as good beer or as good pub as the day before but refershing none the less.

The evening was one of pasta, beer, and wine...some good chat and some ok weather and a reasonable level of drunkeness we were thinking maybe we should go into town for some more booze...another camper suggested totness (apparently number one hippy town in england, with lots of sexy looking hippy type girls).

Out of randomness decided to rugby tackle ali, and from that all of us were keen to have mini wresling fights. No major injuries took place so we agreed on a game of british bulldog.

Bulldog in the dark when its slippery as can be, is the most fun i've had camping in a long while even with just the 4 of us...to wind down the night Chriss played some guitar, I hummed along out of tune, Steve attempted dry humping each of us and Ali repeatedly farted inside the tent for good measure.

Single pitch award training

The single pitch award is something that will let you take groups of people out climbing- set up climbs, instuct climbing etc...it lets you know a bit more about lead climbing .

i did my training a couple of weekends ago, so after becoming a bmc member i got my log book prepared to do a fair bit of climbing over the weekend....perhaps not the best weekend to do it as i had a pretty big exam on the monday (good job it was close enough to not have to do it overnight).

We were taught about setting up top ropes, ad abseils and a little about gear placement- so we got to do some leading on the second day which was good fun :D

im happy

first year at plymouth uni done (hopefully not failed) :D

first year at plymouth uni done (hopefully not failed) :D

2 exams down 1 to go...

So the first exam was mishap's- about file compressions, video, types of colour etc... Actually not too bad to revise for- quite interesting really...The exam seemed to go quite ok- so hoping to do well (ish)

the second (which we had yesterday) was cnet 113- the most boring of all modules. About the workings of a computer and networks and such. I struggled to sit down and get on with revision, but did a bit in the end, and some literally last minute revision in Babbage building and then in the pavilions where we had the exam- every little helps I guess...Some of it seemed quite alright- same questions as we had in a previous exam- so all good....However some of the newer stuff I wasn't sure about....Ill have to wait and see how the results turn out.

After the exam I went for a swim in the sound with all my flat mates, and kicked about down the hoe for a while...After that went back to see a media arts exhibition- quite interesting some films that were very good, or just a bit different...And some complete shit were people had just filmed a night in a club or just sitting about getting stoned and then they added a sound track.

A night of chilling outside with a few beers, with flat mates...Good fun, the weather is great at the moment.

So today IM going to revise soft 131- a module that's all about code- this time a lot of vb6/vb coding, maybe some asp or SQL stuff- not sure...No doubt the hardest of all the exams and probably the hardest of all modules. That's on Monday, IM going away to do single pitch award training this weekend (not the best weekend to be doing it really)

Wish me luck! I think IM gonna need it!

p.s. major celebrations are in order Monday night!! If ya fancy coming out! :D

"oh, i do like to be beside the sea side"

Just recently the weathers been really nice here in plymouth, long overdue sun. I am a short walk away from the sea frount- and a grassy area called the hoe.

Me and my flat mates have gone down there a bit more recently and done some swimming, beer drinking, dossing about, bbq's and a small amount of boldering too.

Pictures of bbqs, jumping in the sound, and some attempted revision.