Monday, August 27, 2012
Timing and bowing at the track and in the woods.
Busy day....long day!
We arrived at the track at 10 o'clock this morning and got back home at 6 o'clock.
There were over 60 races.
We had enough timekeepers and also the electric timekeeping.
Chief timekeepers have lots to think about and can use that as a ready excuse for a poor performance with the watch. Well, that's my excuse for the day....but I was not as bad as at the meeting last weekend at Bromley.
However poor I may have been I enjoyed the day with some lovely people.
And there was virtually no rain at all.
Sport featured during our stay with friends in north Wales.
Peter, our host is an archery instructor.
Amongst his friends is a fellow archer who lives in a cottage high on the hills, with some woods as part of his property. He has set up a field archery course in the woods.
It is a chance to "stalk" wild animals.....models and images.
That's a view from Theo's garden.
Firing arrows off towards the target. Theo.
Peter takes aim at a fox.
Tit Mountain and ferns. That is not a Welsh name, just a reference to its shape.
Peter the Archer.
I walked around the field archery course in the woods and hope I showed some interest.
But I kept getting distracted by views and plants.
Valerian on the wall outside the cottage.
Theo's archery equipment....lots of lovely leather.
The crystal window.
Part of the cottage.
Our friends live on the other side of the mountain.
Honeysuckle and blue, blue sky.
After the archery, it was time for a beer.
Bill could have taken a bow - but opted not to.
We arrived at the track at 10 o'clock this morning and got back home at 6 o'clock.
There were over 60 races.
We had enough timekeepers and also the electric timekeeping.
Chief timekeepers have lots to think about and can use that as a ready excuse for a poor performance with the watch. Well, that's my excuse for the day....but I was not as bad as at the meeting last weekend at Bromley.
However poor I may have been I enjoyed the day with some lovely people.
And there was virtually no rain at all.
Sport featured during our stay with friends in north Wales.
Peter, our host is an archery instructor.
Amongst his friends is a fellow archer who lives in a cottage high on the hills, with some woods as part of his property. He has set up a field archery course in the woods.
It is a chance to "stalk" wild animals.....models and images.
That's a view from Theo's garden.
Firing arrows off towards the target. Theo.
Peter takes aim at a fox.
Tit Mountain and ferns. That is not a Welsh name, just a reference to its shape.
Peter the Archer.
But I kept getting distracted by views and plants.
Valerian on the wall outside the cottage.
Theo's archery equipment....lots of lovely leather.
The crystal window.
Part of the cottage.
Our friends live on the other side of the mountain.
Honeysuckle and blue, blue sky.
After the archery, it was time for a beer.
Bill could have taken a bow - but opted not to.
