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50 million quid for improving cycle routes is up for grabs! Two quick things. One is that there’s this competition going on where four projects have the chance to win £50 million of lottery money in a public vote. One of the projects is being put forward by Sustrans (a sustainable transport organisation) to improve […]
A new thread starts. Having bought a house I’m learning something else new – DIY! Sally bought me a book as a gift called “You Can Do It!” (It’s a B&Q book and B&Q’s advertising slogan used to be “You can do it when you B&Q it!”). This thread will be the ups and down, […]
So, it’s been a long year. It’s been a hard year. I’ve been ill a lot. I’ve not achieved very much of what I thought I would. I enjoy physical activity and I’ve not managed to do much. On the up side we have bought a house and very much settled in Swindon, into our […]
During our trip to the Lakes last year, to climb Helvellyn via Striding Edge with my sister and her man (oddly, I didn’t write anything about this, but we did!), we managed to drown both our digital camera and a mobile phone. They were wrapped up safely in rucksacks but it was so wet that […]
We’ve had the good fortune of seeing a couple of gigs lately. We always enjoy live music, but finding bands/artists we like at venues we like on dates that we’re free, and at prices we like is always difficult. However – despite our picky-ness we made it to the following recently (nicely matching with some […]
[Note – the original idea for this was to include pictures of the logos mentioned but I decided this was probably not legal and so removed them and just did my own “representations”, in the hope that that’s allowed. Look them up on an image search if you want the real thing!] “Maaaarketing…” said an […]
Why is it that things that perform a job well always look stupid? This seems to be especially true of sports wear. Why is it that the best way to keep warm on my bike in winter is to wear skin-tight, fleecy-lined tights? Why is bright yellow seemingly the best colour to wear if you […]
I’ve had some wheel problems of late and have learned a few things in the process. Breaking…and fixing…spokes First of all, during the house move, I decided, stupidly to transport our three bikes in horizontal formation – flat, on top of one another, in the back of the transit van. Lesson 1: Transporting multiple bikes […]