Live life outdoors

OK, I'm going to start by being very selfish and self-centred. Covid-19 sucks! Not much of a shocking revelation I know but it is heart felt. My plans for spring and early summer were to do as much cycling, camping, fishing and kayaking as possible. Also we were heading to Florida for a mega family holiday and hopefully I was going to catch my first ever largemouth bass (LMB) and bluegill. This has now all been put on hold because of the aforementioned Covid-19. Now at the moment all those I love and care for are well and healthy so I have very little cause for complaint compared to other people in the country. Also, I'm safely ensconced working from home (even though I hate it) rather than putting myself in harms way like so many key workers. So like I said I'm being very selfish and self-centred. Anyway, that being said I tend to seize the day the moment the lockdown is lifted. I've got everything organised. The fishing tackle has been sorted between sea, fre...

OK, so it's been a while since my last post and a lot has happened. Very sadly we lost the Matriarch of Team Flynnie when my mum finally succumbed to cancer. Because of this we were not in the festive mood as you can imagine and decided to go hiking on Christmas Day which was lovely, but there were a lot more people around than I had expected. Anyway, here we are in 2020 with a whole years worth of adventures in front of us. So the first trip I want to talk about was the bike ride I did this morning. I bought a new bike just before Christmas as my old one was going to cost more to upgrade than buying a new bike! I now have a nice shiny new bike that I have added a rack, panniers and a few other bits and pieces to as my aim is to get some bikepacking in over the summer - cycling and camping! Does life get any better than that? It does apparently according to Mary! The cycling is OK but the camping is definitely off! My plan is to do a series of rides over the next few months of ...