Went walking in Brecon again today. We'd arranged to go as a group this time, so I thought it would be a little less lonely climbing up. Unfortunately I was about 20 minutes late and the others decided not to wait for me. I guess it was my own fault for being late (again), but it annoyed me a bit. I pushed on hard to catch them up, and apparently I wasn't too far behind them when I got to the top. One of the guys said "just in time for a team photo" and I almost made a sarcastic comment about "what team?!", but held my tongue. At least I had some company for the walk back down. The others decided not to go any further this week (which I was secretly pleased about, since I was quite tired from playing catch-up) so the long one is on hold until next week. I'll try to be on time for that one.
It was a quite different day to last week. A lot of the climb was through clouds, which I found quite refreshing. Once I climbed to a level above them, the sun was burning bright and it was rather hot.
Here's a couple of pictures of the cloud-carpet.
This weekend has been quite busy. Just as well we've had a couple of extra days for Easter. Friday I was dog-sitting for Abbie and Nigel as they went to London for the night. Saturday I was helping my parents clean out their garage and take things to the tip, and today I went over to the folks' place again, this time for Easter dinner. We were all expecting a roast, but we actually had turkey bolognese. When mum told me what she was planning to cook, I laughed and said it made me think of Bridget Jones' mother and her turkey curry buffets. She looked quite indignant and replied that was exactly what my sister had said. It was quite nice anyway.
This morning I climed up Pen Y Fan, which is a small mountain in Brecon, about 45 minutes away from where I live. It's part of my preparations for entering the Six Peaks Challenge (which I was supposed to enter last year, but dropped out from as I didn't train enough and was blatently not up to it). I was supposed to be going up there with two other people, but one had to cancel last night, and I'm not sure what happened to the other - I was a bit late and he'd either already headed off or not turned up. I didn't see him at all so I don't know (and I don't have his phone number).
Anyway, going up on my own wasn't too bad. At least I got to make good use of my iPod. I took some photos with my phone because I don't think anyone will believe I went up there by myself. Especially at 7:30am (was supposed to be 7:00, but everyone knows I'm always late).
I bought an iPod about 2 weeks ago. I don't really like Apple stuff - it all seems a little bit too much style over substance to me. Thing is though, I really like music, and you can't get anything even remotely comparable from anywhere else.
So I ordered a 120 Gig iPod Classic (silver) and it was delivered on Friday 2 weeks ago. It took me the entire day to sync iTunes and then the iPod to all my music, but it was worth the wait. Having all your music available to you wherever you are is a huge benefit. Especially in the car - it was getting super-expensive to keep burning compilation CD's. I got one of those fancy iTrip radio transmitters. It's quite annoying though - it doesn't remember what frequency you last tuned it to when you switch it on, and seems to go for a random channel - completely different every time. There must be a lab of engineers somewhere who are paid to come up with the most annoying solutions to every day problems. I'd like to work there - sounds fun!
