As I am on red alert and start shaking every time my phone rings when I am not next to Lara,  I have a self imposed 1.5 hour radius of Lara at all time.  So anything in the mountains is out of the question at the moment as I don’t want to miss the birth of my child (plus Lara would chop my balls off). 

Yesterday as the snow has mostly disappeared I arranged to go biking with Rich up at Fochabers.  As we set off it started to snow….. great.  Still I thought in a couple of weeks i might as well sell my bikes so I was determined to go biking no matter what.

By the time we had gotten to the trail, there was a couple of inches of fresh snow on teh floor, nothing hurrendous and off we set.

The snow had fallen onto normal earth so there was no underlying ice or snow to make it slippy and it was surprisingly grippy.  Was very cold and still snowing but it made it different and enjoyable.  It was also Rich’s first experience of any Northshore.  So i take my hat off to you, it is scary at the best of times, let alone when it is covered in snow!!!!!  But Rich looked down, saw the MTFU sticker on the top tube of the bike and went for it.  I sat there poised with the camera ready for the potential carnage……

Non – he rode it like a natural.  The look of relief at the end was funny though! I thought I had better do it as well to save face after egging him on to do it as well.  Camera was not fast enough to catch me though as I was obviously going so fast……. (yeah whatever)

A very enjoyabel ride, the snow made it good fun, and the odd bit of ice that did catch us out never did any damage.