As we continue our tour of the Performance Team, this week Martin tells it like it is from the rather charming terrace at the Pub Mont Fort.

 

Well, confession time. Olly emailed me a load of photos of snow in New Zealand in July and somehow I failed to bring you and his artistic efforts together.

So sorry Olly.

But not too sorry for failing to share photos of you and your new passion – crown green bowls. Not exactly Rock and Roll.

The good news in Verbier is that the weather looks set to turn and we should be getting snow on (depending on who you listen to) Thursday night, Friday or Saturday.

Needless to say we’ll keep you posted… You can follow us here on the blog, on twitter, or click ‘like’ on our facebook page and follow it all there….

Yes, the Autumn equinox came and went and in true Swiss style we celebrated through the medium of cheese. As we did last year. And the year before…

It could be because the people of the Bagnes traditionally celebrate the return of the cows from the high pastures at this time of year. It could be because Raclette was invented here in this very valley (I firmly believe between 1972 and 1974, but the evidence on this theory is lacking). But we think it’s more likely that everyone will eat cheese and drink Fendant at the drop of  hat.

The pictures never do it justice – there’s a real buzz in the air. So we videoed it. Toby’s video I think captures it well. Mine makes it sound like the whole thing took place on a helicopter.

 

 

 

  

Rich and Gina have made it to Lands End from John o’ Groats. About 900 miles or so of cycling, mostly it seems in the rain. Anyway, we’ll blog the full story soon, until now have a look at this…

Oh, one more thing. If you’d like to give something to support, please, please, please click here. It’s for Oli’s Ski Fund which is a charity to help a young lad with Cerebral Palsy. We wrote about it here if you’d like to learn more.

Yup, we nipped down to see Kev and his Extreme Karts, and spent a couple of hours racing around the ice rink and trying to put Toby into the wall.

Now, we were expecting it to be good but it was absolutely brilliant. And even more so for those of us who won. The only thing that detracted from the afternoon was the necessity for hair nets, which didn’t seem quite manly enough to fit with the adrenaline and ego filled world of ice karting. But it’s hygenic so there you go…

Yes, after last season’s disputed Powder Extreme vs Performance bowling night, we thought it wouldn’t do any harm to head back to Martigny to get some practice in. Well, Felix has been down to do some training and we don’t want them to have an unfair advantage do we?

Anyway, in true Performance style, the quality seemed to improve as the night wore on, with Stu and Emelie suddenly turning into characters from King Pin by about their fourth drink…