Abergavenny

Saturday was a surprisingly beautiful sunny day for February so we decided to meet up the Bonzo and Ray at the Round Table Cafe on the A40 near Monmouth, the only problem was that as usual we were running a little late so that forced us to use the M42/M45/M50 so after 70-odd miles of mind numbing motorway we eventually met up at the Round Table Cafe for our usual start to the day, a scrummy breakfast (OK, in this case it was brunch as breakfast had finished) – Thanks Bonzo for the Brunch.

After we had finished our brunch we decided to head down one of our favourite roads, the B4521 into Abergavenny. After 20 miles of slipping and sliding around corners, along straights covered in mud from all the tractors we eventually made it safely to Abergavenny and the (almost) world famous Oasis Snack Bar (Bus Station Cafe) for coffee.

While we were lounging around the cafe we got chatting to a guy on a Honda Valadero (Sorry I forgot your name) who told us about a new Honda dealers that had just opened in Cwmbran and seeing how Ray is looking at replacing his current 2005 CBR100RR Fireblade with the new 2008 CBR1000RR Fireblade we decided to have a ride over and take a look.

Once again thanks to the guy on the Honda Valadero as because we are useless and couldn’t understand where the Honda Dealers were he offered top show us as he was heading in that direction.

15 miles later we arrived at Dragon Honda’s new showroom and was impressed at the spacious layout, the various make and models of bikes on offer and the free coffee (try the hot chocolate, it’s very good)

After having a look at the new 2008 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade and a number of other good bikes including a tasty BMW 1150GS Adventure and 2 amazingly engineered trikes we decided it was time to start heading home, we said good bye to Ray (and f&*k off to Bonzo) and headed back towards Monmouth via the A472 road through Usk and once again started up the A40/M50/M5/M42 home.

A few more pictures can be found here

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Photo of Scott

Above is a photo I took of Scott after his 4 hour black belt grading, poor thing (you should have seen him the day after)

Another reason to be proud.

We have yet another reason to be proud of our eldest son Scott

Last Sunday he took and passed his Karate Black Belt!

Scott has been training for the last 5 years, attending lessons at least twice a week as well as numerous courses and he has always trained hard and tried his best.

Both myself and my wife are extremely proud of Scott, he didn’t have a good start to life and was in hospital for over 8 months when he was born and on more than one occasion we were told that he would not survive the night but Scott being Scott, even at that early age showed his now extreme determination and managed to pull thru.

Scott was nil by mouth for over 10 years and was fed by a machine for up to 18 hours a day and as a result has very poor gross and fine motor skills and is very small for his age but with his determination and his Karate training he has come on leaps and bounds to the point that he is now a BLACK BELT!

If anyone is interested in Scott’s problems you can read more here

I hope to post a new photo of Scott with his Black Belt in a few days...

Scotty – Well Done Mate, Love You Loads!

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