http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com Random musings of a diver, biker and hockey player... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:08:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry but its rant time...  If you are driving your metal cage around the countries crowded roads.... FOR GOODNESS SAKE LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING!!!!!!!!! After almost being cleared up 3 times on my way into work this morning (a 3 mile trip on the motorbike) I am sick of these numpties ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2008/07/08/watch-where-you-are-going/ OK, as the other two groups that dived Plymouth this weekend have already filed their trip reports, then I suppose I had better file mine too Friday afternoon saw me driving to Milton Keynes to meet up with Chas49 in order to carshare down to Plymouth. Kit safely stored in ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2008/06/30/plymouth-diving/ I went up to St Abbs for the first time a couple of weekends ago.  I responded to a message on YD from a BSAC school guy who had some spaces on a trip they were running, so I got together with Arfie and we headed on up into Scotland ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2008/04/22/st-abbs/ Just testing that the Deepstop is up and running again.    Diving content will resume shortly! Actually I am off to the dentist in 5 minutes, so I will have to post something when I get home with a slightly less full mouth than I have now! http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2008/04/18/testing-123/ Well, last Sunday I went diving in Dosthill for the first time in ten years.  Not because I hadn't wanted to go for ten years, more a case of I hadn't had anyone to dive there with, as a lot of people turn their noses up at Dosthill.  Sure it ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/11/28/ten-years-apart/ Next up after my holiday is the seemingly traditional followup dives in Stoney Cove.  Some would say its a bit of a comedown after Ibiza, but I just like to keep wet, and its the only dives in the (almost a) month since I got back into the UK as ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/31/long-but-not-boring-dives-in-stoney/ (I have included the photos as links on this report as they are big files.  Please click in the appropriate places to see the full pictures.  Credit: Lynne Marshall.)  I managed to book a really cheap deal for a weeks holiday in Ibiza back in June, so Monday October 1st found my sister and ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/10/22/warm-and-wetsuit-in-ibiza/ Well three or four weeks ago, I was on holiday visiting a diving friend who works out in Denmark, and lives over the bridge in Sweden.  So I took my dive gear with me on the Easyjet flight in the hope that I would get some diving whilst over there. My ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/09/24/make-mine-a-danish/ OK, so I have had a pretty miserable time of it this summer, most of the diving has been cancelled by the weather and then last weekend just capped it all.  However, I do believe in the method that suggests that things will come good eventually, and hopefully this will ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/07/25/the-best-things-come-to-those-who-wait/ The way it is going, I could design an automoboat and get rich quick, but I can't be bothered, so it ain't gonna happen.  This was my weekend report to YD...  An Interesting Weekend OK, my diving this year has mostly consisted of blown out dives, like so many of you, and it ... http://ratcliffe.thedeepstop.com/2007/07/24/floods-boats-and-automoboats/