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Bloody British weather
With hindsight, this summer’s weather should have been obvious from the moment the British bid to host the 2012 Olympics was launched. I mean, why wouldn’t the Weather Gods take the opportunity to...
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One hill of a day!
Saturday’s bike ride with the club promised to be scenic and soothing: forty or so miles for lunch in Devon and then returning via the ride leader’s house for “tea in an English country garden”. It was...
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Oh blogger, where art thou?
Oh dear, I’ve been horribly crap again, haven’t I? When did I last update? Early August? Oh well, call it a summer break and now that we’re in October (eep!) and the nights are drawing in (eep! eep!),...
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The rain in Spain …
…is falling here, not there! And there’s a lot of it. *grump* Still, can’t complain (too much) as I participated in three organised bike rides over the weekend and they weren’t just dry but the two on...
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Run, rabbit!
Snipe surprised us both on our walk this afternoon by catching a rabbit. Poor thing was bleeding heavily and squealing in shock, fear and pain so I took it off Madam, who was bouncing around feeling...
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A new way to ride an old route
One of the things I love the most about cycling (as you’d expect, speeding downhill is in the number one spot!) is the opportunity it presents to explore the local area. For once, yesterday dawned...
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Tenth month
Wikipedia tells me that December was the tenth month of the Roman calendar until some blah blah blah happened and it got bumped down to twelfth, although it kept its name, decem being Latin for ten....
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Muddy Christmas!
I took the dog for a walk up through the woods to the Common this morning. We left under a bright blue sky that predictably turned grey and heavy before we’d even crossed the field to get to the...
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Whatever the weather?
This is a strange feeling, sitting at home at lunchtime on a Saturday instead of being Out There with my cycle club, but things have been a bit sporadic over the last few weeks, what with Christmas and...
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If you’d told me then…
Today marks two years since my entry into the strange but wonderful world of cycling, where “cranks” and “bar ends” have a different meaning from my long-distant student days which was the last time I...
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