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I passed my Advanced Driving Test this morning so when all the paperwork goes through I’ll be a full member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists!

I played at the UK Masters Five Man this weekend and had to drive up from Essex starting a 5am in the morning. Driving conditions were very interesting as it rained at first and by the time I had arrived at 7:20am it was like a blizzard and we had 3-4 inches of snow on the ground.

Play went ahead though and by 11 the sun had come out and the snow had started to melt. However towards the end of the day we had problems with the wind and play was cut short after 6 full games with some teams having played 7.

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Here’s a funny video clip for you all:

Went bouldering tonight at the Nottingham Indoor Climbing Centre so I’m typing with really sore fingers!

Its been a while since I’ve been climbing and I could only manage 5a graded routes.

There was this kid there, who couldn’t have been older than 11/12, doing lead climbing on one of far end overhanging walls. He was very good and his dad, who was belaying, told me not only was he in the top 10 or 15 for his age group but he’d only been climbing 14 months!

Anyway, my arms are killing me so I’d better cut this post short. I’m intending to start climbing regularly again and build back up to the 6a’s which I could just about manage a year and a half ago.

Played with the Smokin’ Aces Div 4 team this weekend at the UK Masters Paintball Tournament. We won 5 of our 9 games and finished 1 point off 4th in 5th place.

It was in Lincoln and in the morning it was freezing, there was so much frost in the grass carpark that you could do some fantastic handbrake turns, it was like driving in snow!

Needless to say we had a bit of trouble with the paintball markers as the frost had frozen the lubricant and the o-rings inside the markers and Chris ended up having to sit in the car with the heaters on trying to warm up his marker.

We managed to get everything together in time for the first game and started off with a run of four wins before lunch and then lost 4 games before finishing off the day with a win.

Meanwhile in Div 2, the Smokin’ Aces Elite team managed to finish 5th as well so it was a great day overall.

Played at the UK Paintball Masters this weekend for Smokin’ Aces in Division 2. It was my first major tournament and it was great fun, attached is some pics of the scoreboards towards the end of the day and others.

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A quick Happy New Year to All!

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Got my third year results from the Open University and they were good enough to keep me on target for my first class overall, so I’m very pleased with them.

Have a great New Year