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Mar. 5th, 2012 11:11 pmI know I've been kind of quiet lately, but two things of note have just happened:
1) I drove back from Harrogate (a spa town not far into North Yorkshire) to Keighley (an ex-industrial town about twenty miles to the west of Leeds), via Willesden (a tiny village sticking onto the side of Bingley deep in the hills), at night. It's a bugger of a road, and apart from a near miss at a traffic-lighted crossroads, went very well.
2) I went fencing this evening! I've not fenced anything like regularly since 2001, and, after years of almost-randomly encouraging people to try fencing, I went to a club in Leeds and did some fencing. I brought along my kit, was told most of it was positively antique and not safe to use. I used my ancient two-pin electric sabre, not knowing if it all would still work - it did, but the accelerometer made the box complain, so I borrowed a club sabre and one-pin wire. Pretty amazingly, I won one 15-14, lost one 14-15, and then after a bout of refereeing (which I was probably abysmal at), I lost an un-referee'd match 15-3. Anyway, very knackered (doesn't help that I didn't go to bed on Sunday night), a bit sore, and very buoyed up and raring to go again next week.
1) I drove back from Harrogate (a spa town not far into North Yorkshire) to Keighley (an ex-industrial town about twenty miles to the west of Leeds), via Willesden (a tiny village sticking onto the side of Bingley deep in the hills), at night. It's a bugger of a road, and apart from a near miss at a traffic-lighted crossroads, went very well.
2) I went fencing this evening! I've not fenced anything like regularly since 2001, and, after years of almost-randomly encouraging people to try fencing, I went to a club in Leeds and did some fencing. I brought along my kit, was told most of it was positively antique and not safe to use. I used my ancient two-pin electric sabre, not knowing if it all would still work - it did, but the accelerometer made the box complain, so I borrowed a club sabre and one-pin wire. Pretty amazingly, I won one 15-14, lost one 14-15, and then after a bout of refereeing (which I was probably abysmal at), I lost an un-referee'd match 15-3. Anyway, very knackered (doesn't help that I didn't go to bed on Sunday night), a bit sore, and very buoyed up and raring to go again next week.
