Bognor Regis Winter Paddle, 24th November 2013 On a beautiful crisp winter morning 5 intrepid CKC members (Neil, Dan, Rob H, Miranda and Jac) headed to the south coast. There was a lovely shingle beach – (not so gently Read more…
Gorgeous day, and we all made it down to Cremorne bright and early for a paddle out west. High tide was at 1130am so we had the tide with us for a good chunk of the first leg. Before we Read more…
Done some work on the site. Optimised the google and bing trawling, they were killing us with requests Database optimisation work Upgraded the server, now twice as much memory as before. Done some additional page caching work What does this Read more…
The skinny middle aged runner we encountered in the carpark of The Ship pub was the first to speak. “Ah someone more mad than me,” he said, having spent 90 minutes jogging in sub zero icy and snowy conditions. He Read more…
Thursday night and time to head down to Cremorne for some respite from London’s pre-Christmas bustle. Late as usual after a hectic day but Olwen Jac and Christoph waited patiently with all the kit ready, and their patience was rewarded Read more…
As training sessions go, this one seemed to skip along happily like a kayaker in the wake of a Thames party boat. The three newbies, Dan, Dave and Nick figured a beautiful autumnal day along the quiet Shepperton river banks Read more…
We had a very interesting visit to the Port of London Authority (PLA) Operations at Woolwich yesterday. Seven of us were met on a bitterly cold morning by Tom Southall, the Deputy Manager of VTS. The PLA ops and London Read more…
CKC team up with Maldon and Dengie Canoe Club for a paddle around Osea Island on the Blackwater Estuary August 2012 By Ann Gales As well as exotic trip locations such as Sardinia, Denmark and Kilchoan, we like to try Read more…
This was followed by some more rescues, fun in a playground on the island where Jakob was crowned Champion of Swingball, and Paul threw caution to the wind and launched himself head first down the waterslide. Hilarious. The next day Read more…
You may have noticed a little downtime today. I’ve updated our webserver so it instructs your browser to cache more of the site and for longer. Sorry for any trouble and hopefully you’ll see a slightly faster site. For anyone Read more…