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Last weekend was my first outing to the festival known as “Greenbelt”. In fact, it was my first real festival outing anywhere. Greenbelt is a music and arts festival. But it needs a little bit more categorisation than that. I shall explain. A note on sub-cultures Now, I’m always careful about talking about “Christian” stuff […]
A friend of mine used to keep notes on books she had read and films she had seen. I hope to occasionally jot down what I think of books, films, maybe music here. Not reviews, but reminders to me of what the thing was about and what I thought of it. I’ve just finished reading […]
The rain is back, and so I’m once again faced, upon entering my workplace, with the statement “Surely you didn’t cycle in today!” I do sometimes question my own sanity, and I ask myself how I would respond if someone asked me why I did it. I reckon I could get between 10 and 20 […]
Back in this post at the end of June I mentioned that “[our car’s] engine has developed a nasty rattle which the garage want £200 just to take apart and diagnose (and then another £200 to put it back together).” I wanted to reflect on the process we went through to get this fixed. The […]
As I’m becoming an bit of an avid cyclist (can you tell?) I felt compelled to watch a bit of the Tour de France this year. Something was said during the TV commentary for the “prologue” (the time-trial around London to establish the leader before they properly set off) that sounded a bit weird. They […]
Not done much longer distance cycling recently – though some would say I’ve never ridden a “long” distance, my 30 milers are as good as it gets. My excuse: the weather’s been awful this summer with LOTS of rain. But it’s finally getting better, so it’s time to get out and trying to build up […]
We’ve done it! We’ve had an offer accepted on a house! Actually, it happened a lot more quickly than I thought it would. So quickly that I didn’t get to write anything about the house-hunting process. You build it up in your head as being this huge thing that’s really hard and takes ages to […]
For my birthday, back in June, my sister and her boyfriend offered to take me on a “Mountain Biking Experience”. As someone who’s got quite into road cycling, but who also loves the great outdoors, mountain biking really appeals, however, you have to have a decent mountain bike before you can even start, and my […]