Turkey

I'm chilling out at my mum's for a few days – log fires, walking the dog in the countryside, tons of home cooking and a few rambling training rides over the Lincolnshire Wolds on my road bike.

2005 has been a big year for me (although, Greenland aside, it's been slightly lacking in swashbuckling expedition action) but 2006 looks set to be in a different league entirely. These are exciting times, and I'm going to write more about the year ahead in a few days time. Right now, I hope you too are with your family, and as relaxed and content as I am. I'd better dash – mum's calling me from the kitchen, and I can smell roast turkey…

— Filed under Rumination