Seven minutes Forty-Eight seconds...

Not a brilliant day for Andy, but at least RadioLeopard had three guys in the final sprint.

Andy came in with the 6'19" group, along with Stuey - probably having a chat on the way, do we think?  Annoyingly, we have no TV coverage, and no video coverage either. Sigh. Never mind, we can see enough from the photos to think that the RadioLeopard kit is not much changed from last year, but it does look a bit too "orange" as opposed to "red". But this could just be the light - sometimes our coverage of Quatar has strange washed-out colours due to the bright light.


There was one clip on good old Steephill TV, showing Andy holding a kangaroo, apparently it's called "Schlecky". Chorus of "Aaaaw!" from the Schlecklanders.  We have to assume that this is a tribute, not some obscure insult...

...meanwhile here in sunny England, yesterday we nearly saw the sun:

Yes, that strange orange thing is the sun, attempting to rise and burn off the fog.

By lunchtime it was glorious:

Today, not so nice: grey cloud, fog, more snow, and LLB and I decided to be adventurous and go for a walk up to Monsal Head, but it took us so long to get through Deep Dale- here is the entrance and, as you can seen, not much of a path to follow -

... that we had to abandon that plan, change direction, and head for Sheldon for lunch.  To get there we had to go for a scramble up an incredibly steep slope: clearly marked as Public Footpath but no-one else had been up it, and the undisturbed snow gave us no clue as to where the actual path was.

This photo doesn't really show quite how steep it was, but it's pretty enough to be worth including:


So that was our exciting day in the snow for today.

It's been snowing lightly all day, and the forecast for tomorrow is more snow for us, and "lumpy" for them.