12 Bore Hard Core

Lol. Having enjoyed the clay pigeon shooting at the weekend I was enthusing to a friend and mentioned that as we were all 'ladies' and complete novices they had given us 20 bore guns rather then 12 as the kick is lessened. 'Ha- that's a childs gun' he responds and thus the challenge was on. So last night, in the rain, we went out with a couple of his 12 bore shotguns for a little practice. I must admit to being somewhat apprehensive as people had been telling me I'd have a black and blue shoulder after but it was fine. As long as you're holding it right the kick really wasn't a problem. Testament to the teaching skills of the guys at Ashcombe I reckon, oh- and my friend of course. :-p It was a tad loud mind but we had ear defenders at the clay pigeon shooting...

Picked up some lovely looking sweetcorn from the friendly local farmer on the way back. My friend declined to be photographed for the blog so you'll have to make do with that. :-)

Activity weekend

This weekend was a friends hen do. This involved Go Ape in the morning - for those of you unaware of this it's basically throwing yourself around an obstacle course in the treetops. Good fun with some slightly hairy moments given that you're 30-40 foot up most of the time! There's zip wires down from each section, something I'd not been on before but LOVED.

Then we had lunch and regained the use of our 'land legs' and moved on to the next section in Ashcombe Adventure Centre. First we did Archery followed by Clay Pigeon Shooting. Again I've never done either before but both were very enjoyable, my favourite being the shooting. The instructors there were top notch as well, I really want to go back for the quad biking.

After all this excitement it was back home for a quick change, don a pair of wings and a tiara and out for dinner then clubbing. You must forgive me for being somewhat knackered on the sunday! A top weekend all round. I was going to leave you with a video I took coming down one of the zipwires but Blogger seems to have other ideas. :-/ A couple of pics instead then; did I mention it was pretty high? :-D