floods, finishing school, and shooting
Published: Friday, July 20th 2007
I am away to America in the morning, Saturday the 21st July, if any US blog followers would like a suit, please contact me direct on my cell whilst I am in the US. +44 798 0541 235.
I shall not be on my own however as the six weeks school holidays have now started here in the UK so I am taking my son Tom with me.
Tom is very excited about going with me and I am hoping we can get out a little before and after work each day.
The north of England, particularly South Yorkshire, has had a massive amount of rainfall in the past few weeks. The result of this has been widespread flooding.
To say I have had a lucky escape is an understatement.
The picture below shows the entrance to the street I live on, the water the Police van is going through is less than 200metres from my home.
Luckily, my house is situated on a slight rise from the bottom of the road, so the water never reached me. If the rain had not stopped we would have had it also.
It is however, 'chucking' it down as I type this!
The Police van is heading towards the main road through Sprotbrough, ( my village ) where the water is around 3ft deep, lots of homes very close to me were flooded.
On a positive note, my daughter, Laura, has finished school now.
She is waiting for her exam results and hoping to attend Doncaster College, both Julie and I have every confidence Laura will achieve the results she is after.
The picture below shows Laura on leavers day with the mandatory 'limo' that all school leavers seem to require nowadays!
Tom asked me last weekend if I could take him target shooting to my local range.
So, we were up and out early Saturday morning. First stop, to get some ammunition from the local dealer I use, then we were on to the range.
Tom and I, mainly Tom! got through a 'brick' of ammo, that's 500 rounds to non shooters, and had a really good morning.
We took it steady as the weather was glorious, even though we were on a covered firing point it did not detract from the day but we would have preferred to be outside.
Picture below shows Tom who is fully under my instructions shooting with one of my rifles.
The rifle he is shooting is a Ruger model 10/22 .22Long Rifle calibre 10 shot semi-automatic.
I have rifle has a Parker Hale sound modeorrat ( silencer ) fitted.
The static target he is shooting at is 25 metres away.
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