I sustained a broken hand after being knocked off my bicycle by a badger. But I don’t hold it against them and would be quite happy to see one on a £5 note.
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I sustained a broken hand after being knocked off my bicycle by a badger. But I don’t hold it against them and would be quite happy to see one on a £5 note.
Orbit Romany for sale on Facebook Marketplace
I really love my Orbit Romany so someone may want to snap this up. Compatible with both rim brakes and disc brakes so truly the bike to take you through the Apocalypse and out the other side. (I've no connection to the seller)
Let them eat vinaigrette!
you can't eat oil
A cyclist riding through the woods beside verges of wild daffodils.
Wild daffodils near Kempley in Gloucestershire
It's Daffodil Weekend in the villages of Gloucestershire's golden triangle. An ideal moment to ride my "Daffodil Dreaming" route from Lost Lanes Wales & Borders. www.daffs.org.uk
BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"
Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station
Glad you enjoyed it. An unforgiving time of year for a big day on the bike, neither the legs nor the landscape feels quite ready.
Good call - and Mary, Queen of Scots House also on Fleet St
Maybe just a pang of English guilt then, no bad thing.
Was thinking of The Clachan pub in the West End. Sadly the Scottish Stores in KingsX doesn’t quite live up to its history. Obvs Great Scotland Yard. William Wallace memorial in Smithfield - a bit bad taste? Site of the Royal Caledonian Asylum?
London cycling friends - am thinking of hosting a Scottish themed social ride to mark the publication of my new Lost Lanes book. All will be welcome. Help me compile a few 🏴 landmarks in Londontown.
That’s an underrated achievement. Well done. I remember my December 200 as very cold, dark and lonely.
Bike World magazine cover photo taken from behind two touring cyclists with fully loaded bicycles. The rider on the left has her hand on the shoulder of the rider on the right.
June and Greg Siple on Hemistour
Bike World magazine
May 1974
Construction of the Forth Bridge (1882-1890). The longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919.
Wow that’s pretty bad - over 70% here in Monmouthshire
I'd really love to have a ride one of those high end Sunbeams. Have you ever? oldbike.wordpress.com/1936-sunbeam...
Ooops I meant 1938. Kuklos rode a Sunbeam too I believe? Here's his last column. Poor fellow died while under anaesthetic during an operation.
Bike is a classic - as advocated by Kuklos in his last ever newspaper column (1935) as the ‘Everyman Bicycle’. Whatever happened to the English roadster w/ oil bath chain case?
Nigel Dunnett (Sheff uni prof) is one of the big names in urban planting. 2012 Olympic Park & much more. Assume he was involved in this in some way too.
Still no Pontrilas Parkway. One day…
I never saw her there, just heard tell that she liked the place. And I studiously avoided making eye contact with the Rev. He deserved to enjoy his egg, bacon & beans in peace. So it’s a bit thin as anecdotes go.
It requires familiarity with Marie’s Cafe, I’m afraid. A Waterloo institution, frequented by Tracey Emin also. Now can you imagine her and the Rev Jackson enjoying a fry up together?
I once had lunch at the next table from Jesse Jackson in Marie’s Cafe on Lower Marsh in Waterloo. Bit random but 100% true.
Wow.
This is peak Avon valley content
if you’re prime minister, it is kind of astonishing to say your legacy will be winning the election. that’s the job interview mate
Are you working as a goalie now?
"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.”
