We were sailing...

The weekend's sailing activities were more or less a success. Nothing broken and I wasn't last. I would have liked to finish higher than 45th out of 50, but I didn't and that is probably because I have hardly sailed this year for one reason or another (illness chiefly).

Not much activity

Danish championships

I'm sitting in a tent on my own whilst it rains outside. I should be out sailing in the nationals but after a short trip out in the boats this morning, we were sent in because of thunder storms and circling winds. It looks like there will be ok sailing today and tomorrow looks like being flat too. Saturday is promising very strong winds so there is a risk that we don't really get any sailing done at all.
In the plus side, it's a nice place to be.

All set for the nationals

Holiday Snaps

Concert in Durango

Mesa Verde ancient cliff dwellings

Somebodies Arch near Moab, UT

Under the Arch

Hiking in Eldorado Canyon

Climbing kids

DK on his way up

Home and Jet lagged

I was up at about 4 this morning having given up on sleeping after 2 hours lying in bed awake. I guess I'll be tired again tonight though.

We had a fantastic holiday in Colorado (mostly) and I'll post some pictures in the coming days when I get them downloaded from the camera.

We spent a few days around Boulder, then headed to Leadville, Durango and finally Moab in Utah on the way home before a final few days in the Front Range again.

Off roading in a rental car?

No, not us, we'd never do that...

View from the hut

The hut

Pneumonia

Turns out the the month long flu had morphed into something more nasty. I have infection in my lungs and sinuses. Thankfully the penicillin is helping already :-)

Ninja turtle cake

I have no talent for cake decoration at all!

With broccoli

Coconut milk
Banana
Apple
Blueberries
Cooked broccoli
2 carrots
Water
Tastes good

Soothies not to try

This morning's smoothie was not a hit

• coconut milk
• 2 carrots
• cucumber
• blueberries
• not so green banana
• water
• almonds
• stevia

It started looking nice and blueberry coloured, but quickly turned brown and tasted primarily of cucumber and carrot. Even MK wasn't impressed.

I'll try again tomorrow and see if I can improve on it...

Breakfast smoothie

Have a look at the other blog for the ingredients

Nearly 3 weeks

I can't remember ever having a flu that has lasted this long. I am still coughing and snotting (as MK would put it) and now have block sinuses so I can't hear very well either. I am still taking it easy in the hope that the virus leaves me alone in time for our holiday but I am really missing getting some exercise and I have lost a fair amount of muscle since it hit me.

Maybe tomorrow I'll be up to a bit of a workout, but tonight it's sushi night as J isn't home.

Back at work

I don't know what virus I have been fighting for the past 14 days, but it's fair to say that it put up a good fight and I still haven't beaten it.

I fell ill in Bristol 2 weeks ago today. Since then I have basically been lying around waiting for it to go away. Normally I would expect something like this to be done in 5-7 days, but this has just lingered on and on.

Anyway, I am back in the office today and hope to be fully back in action after the weekend provided that things continue to get better.

Jeremy the clown

At the nursery party last Friday.

Second ear done

We got a cancellation appointment for DK to get his right ear done yesterday so he now has the permanent drains in both ears and he's ready for summer and starting school.
I still have flu after 12 days and I'm glad I cancelled the travel plans for this week at work.

DKs summer knee trophies

Still ill

I got flu last week when I was in England for work - I guess I picked it up on the way through Heathrow Airport, but I can't believe how long I have been ill.

I left the office on Thursday afternoon, I worked Friday morning and traveled home in the afternoon and evening. I was then sick all weekend and Monday. I went to work yesterday, but left in the middle of the afternoon feeling sick again.

Now I am home again and still have a fever, feel crap and sleep really badly. I suppose that it is getting better slowly, but I ran out of patience 2 or 3 days ago.

Now we can work standing up at home too

Well Denmark didn't qualify!

A very full English breakfast.

Low carb and rather good at the Avon Gorge Hotel in Bristol.

Fishing trip success

Exciting day out

Yesterday DK had a somewhat unexpected operation in his ear to put a drain under his eardrum. It seems to have been a fantastic day out!

Insect bite under the eye yesterday.

Looks like he's been fighting!

These will be strawberries in a few weeks

Big Prayer Day

Have a good day off, if you're getting one.

Last, last, second to last, last.

Actually, despite being last on the water in the last race, I was second from last as one guy had gone home with some technical issue.

That was how my Saturday sailing went.

An early start to pick up my boat on the way to Kastrup and on the water by 10 for 4 planned races in the Polyester Cup (I have no idea why it's called that).

I really didn't perform well in the first couple of races. I make too many mistakes and each of them costs me a boat length or so. I don't really understand how I have gone backwards so much since last season where I could get to the upwind mark with the other boats rather than being last from beginning to the end of the race.

I did manage to make some improvements in the last race by simply working much harder upwind to get more speed out of the boat. It should have been obvious that  would help, but I didn't figure it out until the last race. Having passed 5 boats on the upwind leg, I then proceeded to hit both of the buoys and had to do 2 penalty turns, thus immediately losing the places I had gained. Bother.

Winning at life

It at least at finding interesting sticks to play with

More trees to climb

TV2 Øst Løb

This morning the family took part in a local run.

 J and MK did the 5km in 29 minutes and DK and I did the kids 2km run in 18 minutes including a face plant and had injury for DK.

New fountain pen

New gardeners

Cherry blossom

Bulls balls

For the second time in my life.
These are really good

Climbing trees

Crabbing

More pipes

Pipes

It's much colder than it looks

Cold water paddling

J actually had to be restrained from taking all if his clothes off and heading for a swim!

Leather strap for my Oris

Cold

I suppose that only an idiot comes to Norway without a coat in April and that makes me an idiot.

I was up at 04:20 having slept badly knowing that I had to be up so early.

Now I can look forward to meetings until 21:00 tonight before finally getting some sleep. Hopefully I'll find something worth eating in the vicinity of the office and hotel which is in the Nydalen area of Oslo.  I appear to be the only person left in the office now that everyone has gone home.

Maybe just a few more posts here...

I'm off to Oslo tomorrow morning on a 6:15 flight so I'll be leaving the house at 4:30.

That's too bloomin' early and I know it's going to be another very long day. I am doing about 2 jobs at the moment and it's going to get worse for at least the coming month as I am covering for someone's vacation for 3 weeks starting on Monday as well as kicking off a new project the last two days and another the next two days.

I'm moving

I'm starting a new blog over here at Primarily Primal Family which is something of an experiment for now, but for the time being, that will be my main blogging site...

Bristol

I have spent the last couple of days kicking off a project in Bristol with 2 Norwegians and a lost more Brits. It has been quite funny working with Brits again after so many years of working with Scandinavians and other international folk. I enjoyed the work, but the trip through Heathrow was a pain and the Hilton was somewhat reminiscent of an old peoples home in layout and decor. Thankfully there was no smell of chlorine, just bleach from the swimming pool.
We did find a nice pub for dinner and we will be looking for a better hotel next time.

The UK head office is a nice old building with some eccentric details inside.