Hey guys,

Been a few days… I have ‘Man Flu’ , while Jen is busy teaching another course.  Within this course there is a fella called Darren.

Darren is the son of Garth, who used to live on the farm with me and Jen many moons ago. Darren has since grown up!  The last time I saw him was a few years ago, while having a few beers with Garth and Darren in London…

Anyway, the course is going well, and Darren should complete his course today… (possible video coming soon!!)… then he will continue onto the Advanced course too…

In the meantime, our new lodger’s hair is getting enormous!!

And boy, tonights sunset was a doozy

xxx

SD

I’ve been busy teaching Open Water  ..I was suppose to start with 4 students but one of them went out drinking and cut his toe open badly so didn’t show the next day  ..but the students I was left with (Lucinda, Shannon and Jack) were lovely.  
The confined session went well, even though, Jack was a bit slow with some of the skills, very stiff and just lacked a bit of common sense  ..the dives were hilarious  ..they were all good in the water  ..but at times Jack seemed to have short spells of rigamortis   …it was like watching someone in a full plaster cast wriggle about  ….so so funny!

With the course finished, we all met up at the Crystal bar for their Open Water video at 7.30pm  When they turned up, they presented me a lovely Thank You card and a bracelet  …how lovely, I nearly shed a tear.  Tim had done an amazing job with the video which they all brought …YAY!!!

Away, news on Mr GrassHead  ..he’s looking cool …this is a shot of him taken an hour ago.  His hair is slowly growing. I think I might need to water him a couple of times a day as it’s so hot right now.

Sad news, my hammock that Si brought me broke/tore.  Si sat in it and went straight through  ..so today, I was given this beauty

…it’s so soft comfy and what’s really good is that it’s meant to be left outside.

We’re certainly going to get some good use out of this.

Wow… I get a day off!!

Well, thats not actually true…. I had a day off from the dive school, which means I could catch up with various things…

Firstly, it was up early with a nice cup of tea, working on a friends website which has been on the backburner… Still working on it but its getting there! Then onto creating a webpage for the dive school. Then concentrate on a bit of UK work before waking Jen up with Eastenders, a cup of tea and a cooked breakfast.

Around midday, Jen and I headed up to the Wild Challenge area to walk the track and take notes on any issues there were still to fix.

 The Licky dogs arrived as usual, and after being slobbered all over for what seemed like an eternity they trotted off along the path.

After negotiating a few obstacles, we came to the barbed wire fence which I had not tested yet, so crawled my way through to check it out.

 Licky Junior stood guard!

And then it was onwards and upwards.

After having a brief rest at the top, we came back down and went back home, where we spent the remainder of the day catching up with Eastenders, watching a movie, and then bed early… Lovely!