Author Archives: charliecountryboy

About charliecountryboy

Carpenter and Carpentry Lecturer. Writer, 5k and 10k runner, musician. Curious about life and all those wonderful people in it.

Make an Easter Tree; Adorn with Chicks and Bunnies

Posted on April 20, 2019

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Originally posted on Charliecountryboy's Blog:
Sorry if you were expecting Chicks and Bunnies pole dancing in a tree, but this isn’t Playboy and I’m no Hugh Hefner 🙂 When we left Hampshire last year the Princess asked me to…

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Nasty Followers, “like hobbits is”

Posted on April 15, 2019

I never post twice a week except this week I’m on holiday and planned a whole week of running and gym and writing and all things nice 🏃‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🧘‍♂️📇💃🕺🏻Instead, as you know I got a cold 😈👿🤮Anyway managed a 5k this … Continue reading →

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I’m a Bad, Bad Patient

Posted on April 13, 2019

The cold shivers ravage your body and your spine feels like its just come out of cold storage then you realise someone is drilling holes into the backs of your eyes. Meanwhile sweat oozes from every pore and you feel … Continue reading →

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Batman and I

Posted on April 6, 2019

“One August day an eight-year old and his mum are picking blackberries, she is unaware her son is a Superhero and wearing his costume beneath his ordinary clothes. I was expecting a crime wave not a heat wave and as … Continue reading →

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Park Run

Posted on March 30, 2019

The sweat is stinging your eyes, your lungs are bursting and your legs feel like one of those Hartley Jellies Mum used to make. After 5k you collapse over the line,  a gasping, sweating, wobbly mass that was previously a … Continue reading →

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Malayan Spout Hotel

Posted on March 23, 2019

The princess said oooh! lets go on the North Yorkshire Moors for half term. This hotel is doing Bed Breakfast and two course evening meal for two at £99. I agreed because…… well its easier isn’t it and I like … Continue reading →

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Egypt

Posted on March 20, 2019

Originally posted on WheatyPete's World:
1971, Cairo, Egypt.? My Dad was at the time an academic at the university of Surrey and somehow got sent to the university of Cairo. ?He worked there leaving my mum to look after…

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Interlude in Puerto Vallarta

Posted on March 16, 2019

Five hundred feet below me the rocks of the Sierra Madre mountains appeared unforgiving, the guide called out, ‘It’s okay the horse knows where it’s going.’ I decided to leave my fate in the hands of a Mexican pony and sat … Continue reading →

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Too Young to Die (4 of 4)

Posted on March 9, 2019

We were surrounded by the crowd. Children always curious about fear, asked if we had been scared. I answered that we had been scared and the old man said that it was good for a man to be scared…… sometimes. … Continue reading →

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Too Young to Die (3 of 4)

Posted on March 2, 2019

On the harbour wall a crane stood isolated, defiant as the dark foaming mass crashed over it. There was a headland to the north that made up that side of the bay and I could see the ocean rising and … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Fishing, Freedom, Life, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , | 58 Comments