On Saturday, Agnieszka and I went to Stephen and Megan's housewarming party. We had a great night, and I remember drinking a lot of Żubrówka and eating some lovely Polish food.

On Sunday afternoon, we walked up Arthur's Seat. It was surprisingly warm and sunny for January. At the top, we got photos looking North West, Nort East, and one of ourselves.

Today I got up early (7am's quite early for a Sunday) and got ready for my 1st trip to Glentress. Charles picked me up and him, Howard and I went to Glentress with our mountain bikes. We did the red route (17km) and a few bits of the black route. Most of the Black route looked too difficult to attempt until I get some more practice in. Sadly no photos though as my camera's a bit too big to take. Howard's taking his with him next time though. The routes can be seen on this map. After dinner we went to The 1901 and met up with Stuart and Ceri. I tried a few pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord for the first time, it's quite a good ale. |

This evening I went on my 2nd off-road cycle run this week. I drove to the bottom of Corse Hill, south of Eaglesham, and cycled up. It's a change in altitude of 126 metres over about 4km. I think it might be the highest point on the Eaglesham Moor. My original plan was to see if I could cycle from Corse Hill through Whitelee Forest and join the road that links East Kilbride to Darvel. I would have been relying on a track that doesn't appear on the Ordnance Survey map, but I noticed that Google's Satellite photo shows a gap between the trees so it was worth a look. As it turns out, the track does look passable by bike. I got just over half way through the uncharted track before it got too cold and started getting dark. The decent on the way back was fun! I took photos at various points including some of a radar dome on top of Corse Hill. |

Yesterday I left work early with the bike and went out on the back road from East Kilbride towards Darvel, and stopped off at a small carpark with a forrestry commision sign. I cycled almost all of the way down the track and back, a total of about 4km. That's my 1st time off-road since I injured my leg. Cycling for an hour does hurt my leg, and this off-road stuff's going to take a bit of getting used to again. I'm intending going out again on Thursday and Friday, hopefully getting further. Checking the map today, I could take a slightly different path and do a 4km loop. Perhaps doing it twice by the end of the week. Michelle pointed out that all this is of course far too healthy so we went to the pub as soon as I was home and changed. |

Friday was Stephen's last day at work and we had a good 7-a-side game of football at lunch time. photos of it are on his blog and here.

In an attempt to have a cheap weekend at home, I spent a lot of time walking around Glasgow taking notes for a website I'm putting together. I'm building up a database of coordinates and photos. Part of the site will have a map to show the locations of places. I've gone down the Google route with this, and the map can be moved by dragging it around. I was having a look at Google's UK maps this afternoon and can now identify 4 street names that are wrong:

1. "La Belle Allee" should be "La Belle Place"
2. "Duff Street" should be "Lynedoch Street"
3. "Dal Nan Each" should be "Woodlands Road"
4. "Inverquhomery Road" should be "Great Western Road"

I'm off to start tidying my room to make packing easier. I've not found a new flat, but will be viewing some this week.

Slightly different weekend. No going out to pubs for a start. Spent most of Saturday afternoon walking around Glasgow, then went to see a play in the evening with Tina. It was excellent! Spent most of Sunday playing around with the website, and looking at what some previous versions of sorn.net had, like the blog. Still trying to get OSX to mount WebDAV shares from my web server, without any progress at all. |