George Holmes

Busy, tiring weekend, but all good :)

2007-10-14T21:38:00.002Z

What a busy weekend, 16 hours at work, a trip to the cinema and a mornings surfing, oh and an evening in the pub watching the rugby!

Rugby was awesome, England v France was properly good, not great in terms of play but it had all the drama, awesome!

Surf today at Saunton with Neil was ace, clean good sized waves but unfortunatly it was a little busy, but hey, its better then Welsh surf.................

Busy, boring summer........zzzzzzzz

2007-09-30T21:52:00.001Z

Thought I'd update my blog, is about time and have been pestered by Tom to sort it out so I've just got round to it now.

Been a long summer, mainly working at my "temporary" job at the mighty Roadchef and helping out at home with mums sheep and things. So heres some photos of what I've been up too, very boring............

Mums house in Berrien, Brittany, France. A week spent pointing the brickwork, hard work!!

The front finished, still most left to do..

Meg at a really wet Wakestock, was cool but dont think I'll be going again, its was very chavy and loads of teenagers!!!

Myself and Vic at graduation, it was cool but it rained!!!!

Squirting session, my first, at Flower Potts weir in Exeter. Good fun!

My feeble attempt at a quick video, just some squirt boating at flower potts wier in Exeter.

My first interview was at the museum of East Anglian Life, didn't get it but good experience and a fun day out!

A blurry London Paddington in rush hour.

See its all really fun, my plans now are to pass my driving test, finger crossed on the 3rd of October and then off to Manchester and Bangor! Cant wait!!! Still looking for a proooooper job, we'll jst keep at it, if all else fails I might take some time out in another part of the world next year and get some experiance somewhere cool :)

Alps 2007

2007-06-22T16:16:00.001Z

Thought I'd update the blog as I've had quite an active couple of weeks.
I've now finished University completly which is really quite daunting but had an awesome summer/end of year ball. I got to meet the main man from Wheatus (Brenden i think he's called) and also got to watch the excellent Screaming Citizens, I reccommend them to everyone as they rock!
Anyway the ball was ace and my girlfriend Victoria looked stunning as per usual. Then at 9am the next morning my Dad arrived to give me a lift down south so that I could pack and ready myself for 2 weeks in the sunny French Alps.
Whilst out there we paddled the Upper, middle and lower Guil, the Ubaye racecourse, Fournel, Durance Gorge, Briancon Gorge, middle and lower Claree, sunshine run, upper and lower Guisane. There maybe others but I forget. It was an ace 2 weeks spending the majority of it paddling with Bangor Uni and then the last part with Tom and Leeds and I also spent a day with Sheffield which was cool. We also spent a lot of time drinking some tasty french wine and eating lots of cheese.

Heres some photos............Vic and me at the ball, shame I never look at cameras!

Tom on the ferry

Le car puf

Chataux Q, gorge wasn't for me this year

Woody on the largest drop of the Fournel

Me on the Durance gorge, thats supposedly a grade 5

Neil, Woody, myself and Kieran on the Durance gorge

Bridge over the Ubaye Racecourse!

It was an awesome holiday and now its back to the real world, lets hope we get some sunny weather!

End of exams!

2007-05-26T20:07:00.000Z

Fantastic to finally have finished my final exams of my degree, its been a really quick 3 years, I'm really going to miss being a student, Bangor is great!

I had 4 exams with my last on renewable energy on friday, I like to think they all went pretty well!

Anyway, its real good and I am now feeling the effects of drinking too much ale last night but its all good!

Today Vic, Neil, Iain, Rab, Meg and me all went to the beach to fly kites, have fun and get suitabley sunburnt. it was real fun.

Myself and Meg burying Neil

A burried Neil

Meg with Neil in the background

Me on the big kit with the nappy like harness

Neil teaching Meg to fly the kite!

So I'm off to the mighty Dee tomorrow along with the rest of the kayaking community to have some fun with the Uni canoe club. Should be real fun but another chance for the people going on the trip to the Alps to practice going down some rapids! Gnarly! Anyway should be a nice day out now I have no exams or diss to panic about!

An excellent day!

2007-05-18T08:18:00.001Z

What an excellent day yesterday was. After a nice session at the galt y glyn pub for Pizza and a Pint we left to loads of rain. Hmmmm oh the possibilities!
I got home the next morning to find that Tom had gone off boating of the squirt kind so got down to some work! Then come 3 o'clock, get a call from Tom downstairs.................."ogwens up"
And what an excellent level it was too.......

Tom, Gaz, myself and Mitch behind the camera

Me sitting back a little too much

Me smilling cheekily after a nice big high brace!

Portage around tree at Scout Hut Bridge

Nice river wide tree, best portaged! Be careful!

An excellent day was had by all and it was topped off by an ace session in spoons drinking cheap ale! Bangor rocks!!

Boating but on a Canal not the Ogwen!

2007-04-11T20:57:00.001Z

Phew, its been an interesting Easter break from Uni! I came back down to Taunton on 24th March and have been home listening to mum rant about green stuff and wrestling sheep, its been fun. In between I've been working away at the UK's best Motorway Services apparently aka Roadchef!
However the last 3 days I've had a nice constant change of scenery as myself and Bertie, my long haired hippie brother caught a train to Pewsey to join Dad and Maggie on their new canal boat! Its very slow but fun all the same! Heres some pics!

Above a pic of a swan, was a nice evening in Devizes warf!

Dad, Maggie and Bertie

The living area/bedroom. Nice but no shoes!!!!!

Caen Hill, an absolute epic! There should have been a line of pubs down the side!

Westbury white horse, one of the really nice view we had!

Above a boy and mum in an open canoe, I had a little grumble about it to myself at the time, its quite obvious why!
The bottom of Caen Hill

An awesome entrance into Bath this afternoon, which provided a perfect spot for a cuppa tea!

Dads boat, really nice but a little slow and ungnarly for my liking!

I had an ace time but I think its not something I could do too long and too intensively! But nice to do something different!
Lets just hope I get all my uni work done so that I can go out in my boat.
Thats all for now, I know, really boring but oh well!

Bloody work!

2007-03-22T20:23:00.000Z

Its so boring! I wish I could do something a little more enjoyable!

Cwm Llan! An ace way to spend Valentines day!

2007-02-16T15:31:00.001Z

Sat here contemplating doing work and finishing my masters application, I've decided to update my blog!

I had an ace Tuesday and Wednesday, Tuesday evening being spent at the Beacon climbing centre and then a trip up part of the way up the minors track on Snowdon on Wednesday!! This was to paddle the Cwn Llan with Mitch, Convict (aka Chris Headleand), Sara and Neil! Was an ace day! Here are some of my highlights.......Me on one of the cool slides (all pics by Sara)

Mitch in the last pool of the run! I like this pic, its quite cool in its own special way!

An ace pic, on the walk up to the river, Pic by me! It was a beautiful day!

The Cwm Llan, not very full of water but very enjoyable all the same!

Me on another slide! This one was ace, it had an ace kicker which shot us all through the air!
It was an excellent day and nice to do some boating for once, there's been a serious lack of rain in North Wales ever since the exam period finished, hmmmm seems convenient! Plus I'm still down in the dump about my broken boat so its all good man! I may borrow that boat more in the future!

Trip up Y Garn

2007-01-29T12:17:00.000Z

This is my first post, I stole the pictures from Tom, cheers dude, there will be many more exciting adventures (in my opinion) blogged in future!We climbed up this mountain, its the one that's out of picture on the right!
On Saturday myself, Tom, Sara, Iain and Mitch took a walk/scramble up Y Garn! Ace day but unfortunately it was clouded out at the top!

Iain looking beautiful! Lol

After a long and fun walk we got to the top! Bit of snow about which was cool and plenty of other walkers about which is coolThis is the start of the walk back down! Was a little scary for me as being a bit scared of heights, the walk down in some places seemed a little sketchy.
A great day was had, it was great to get out as the day before had been spent feeling ill with a hangover!