I’ve been over in Amsterdam for a couple of days for the Ishares Cup which is one of the events that our Group runs. It involves extremely fast and exciting extreme 40’s racing around one of the docks there which has been incredible fun to watch. It’s not every day that you see that kind of action in a city centre!
It’s been a very full-on few weeks for us, what with Skandia Cowes Week, and then a few days of escaping!
Cowes Week was fantastic for us with loads of guests, loads of sailing, and an incredible iShares Cup.
Since Cowes Week it’s been great to take a few days off and get out and about. I headed west to Devon and Cornwall and spent some time seeing friends. It’s easy to forget just how beautiful the countryside is in the UK. What with Dartmoor, the farmland and the beautiful coastal harbours.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research over the last year into sustainable and basically sensible buildings.
Learning about the different principles, and the way you can build either a wooden house with masses of insulation which has low thermal mass, or a brick, stone or concrete house, with masses of insulation resulting in high thermal mass.
I was travelling up to London a few days ago on the classic commuter train, it was busy and full and I was concentrating on work and reading a document.
Suddenly the sky outside the train was brighter, which cought my eye, and I looked out from the hussle and bussle of the train to see a young woman walking her dog through a field. There was a narrow path stretching across the huge expanse of long grass, and the tiny figures of woman and dog seemed so content!
It made me stop and think, and reminded me just how much pleasure you can get sometimes from doing something so simple….
Hello again all!
Things have been a bit quiet recently as I’ve been trying to take a bit of time off… However this time off, which has included dog walks and sailing has also lead me to think more about a few subjects.
The first of which was a walk a few days ago near the town of Newport on the Isle of Wight. Whilst wandering down what appeared to be the old railway I stumbled upon a little wooden bridge which crossed a fantastic, and powerful little river with a fantastic weir. It made me think about the power of the water, and the fact that the river ran 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It made me think what a fantastic resource it was, and also what a beautiful place it was, to be looking over the water!