Summer days!

As I mentioned earlier I'm spending the summer at home, and thankfully the nice weather has finally arrived. So I've been enjoying getting the my iPhone's camera out at any opportunity.

The cute cute piglets at Broom House Farm where I used to work!

Olympics! Woot!

No Instagram or Hipstamatic was used in the making of this photograph.

Moo!

Fantastic Italian brass band in Durham!

King's On Tour! 2012 - An Aviemore Adventure

Midges, Mature cheddar and the Mountains.

This year's King's On Tour took us North again. We spent a week or so in the Cairngorms just outside Aviemore, enjoying all that fantastic area has to offer of mountains, crags and rivers. Everyone bagged at least two Munros (a list of 284 mountains higher than 3000ft in Scotland if you didn't know), paddled some whitewater (sadly not quite as epic as the Durance in the Alps last year), and got some climbing in. Plenty of cheese and pickle sandwiches were consumed (Mention in Dispatches for the team of the Sandwich Machine). The weather wasn't too bad either! Anyhow pictures say it better than words, so enjoy...

A Very Special Walk

A bit late this one but a few photos from the Fifty Mile walk I undertook with my fellow MBPhDers, Petros, Charlie, and Joe, during last term. We walked from Seven Sisters Tube Station in North London, back to King's College, Cambridge. In all honesty, when Charlie suggested it I thought it would be easy; I'm moderately fit and I've walked long distances, up to around 20-25miles, in the hills before. How wrong I was. It was genuinely the hardest thing I have ever done, even now months later I can remember the pain. The only way we got through was the thought of all the money we were raising for a fantastic cause, Wakefield hospice. We topped out at over £1,250, which works out at £25 a mile (but if you never got round to donating at the time, you still can at http://www.justgiving.com/MBPhD50). People who saw us in the few days after will attest that we were broken men, and certainly my feet still bare the scars (though I will spare you any photos of that).
Anyhow have a few pics that I took along the way as a reward.

Joe was enjoying his breakfast too much to pose... 

Pirate P.T.

Topless mile one third of the way through, enthusiasm for these waned later on.

Sometime in the wee small hours.

Charlie holding the icon which he brought to guide us on our journey (who needs maps?!)

May Week '12

Sadly I'm not "going travelling" this summer, so there won't be the usual glut of photos and tales from the far reaches of the globe. Instead I promise a glut of photos and maybe a few tales from places nearer to home. So to start off, a few photos from the various May Week festivities, including the annual Club outing to the Union Garden Party, the Klezbians rocking Peterhouse May Ball, kayak polo on King's Funday, and the always awesome King's Affair...