Day 20. Now that's a FIRE!

Hello hello!
Well as I have been exceptionally crap lately, I decided today that I really would get back on it and start proving myself worthy of such a mammoth trek... so I took the stairs twice in work, (that actually hurt again - how quick your muscles forget eh?!) I ate well by having cereal for breakfast, a grilled BLT baguette for lunch and will be munching some scrambled egg and beans on toast as soon as I've finished this.
Oh - and I went back to the hospital about my elbow today too - I have Super-Human-Healing-Powers apparently! Nursey was ever so impressed with how quick it is healing. She told me that she was expecting to give me stitches (and even had the suture kit ready) but all it needed was a new bandage. I'm Amazing!
Anyhoo all weekend Kilvey Hill has been on fire so today, after the first day of rain Swansea has had in nearly a month I thought I'd get up there and check it out.
So once again with dog in tow I headed out. I decided that I would take the same route in the opposite direction today so the what is normally 40 minute down hill route would be my way up. (I guess as a bit of self punishment for being so crap lately.) My GOD that's a steep and long way up! Well, I kept a steady pace all the way up but I have to say that the fire damage to the entire one side of the hill is so bad that I very nearly cried. It really was heartbreaking to think of the amount of wildlife that have lost their little homes and the lasting damage that has been done to the woodland by some little sh*ts with matches. I'd kick their asses if I caught them, bad elbow or no bad elbow. I did my bit for nature though by clambering into the charred skeletons of the trees and stamping out areas that were still smouldering. With all this in mind, I got to the radio masts in 28 minutes. It normally takes me about 40 minutes to get down from there! How can that be?! Well, I did anyway - I'm not lying. Dog didn't roll in anything this evening either. (Yey!)
We did it in 49 minutes.
I guess a weekend on the beer hasn't had too negative an effect on me eh?!