Do The Right Thing

Now that we’re approaching the depths of winter, which means that on early morning runs here, you get to see some unusual sights.
Before dawn the horizon’s a glittering line, with the twinkling lights of  fishing boats. I presume they’re fishing boats, anyway. But it’s quite a sight, and one that despite having lived here for [...]

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I found this via the excellent Bicycle Diaries produced by Da Square WheelMan.
It’s got some great high-minded aims (in a good way), though is a little short on detail at the moment . . . so probably worth keeping an eye on.

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. . . and so little time to fill in log books. Or do much in the way of exercise to make it worth filing in the training log in the first place.
So, so far, I’ve only managed to get out for nice easy runs with Shana on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It’s not that [...]

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I’m a member of a local networking group (Service Network), and on Friday they held a seminar about climate change at Newcastle’s offices for the Environment Agency.
The weather was pretty foul, but I could hardly drive, could I? Although it was sunny enough for shades as I was getting the bike out, within minutes of [...]

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After the near drowning I had on Tuesday night, a sensible person would have driven to the meetings I had yesterday - three hours on site with a client in Walker, lunch in the Team Valley, visiting a friend’s business in Durham to see their swish operation, and then setting the world to rights over [...]

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I had a meeting in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, and after the traffic horrors of Monday, I just had to cycle. The problem was that the weather had looked decidedly dodgy all day - still very blustery, with occasional hard showers.
But by five, it seemed to be clearing up, so after taking Huge Dalmatian for [...]

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Apparently it’s Thanksgiving Day in the US. And I’ve got to say that I’m confused. I mean I know (from Wikipedia amongst others) that there’s this thing with the turkey, and everyone travelling to see their folks, and something to do with Boston, and that film with Steve Martin & John Candy trying to get [...]

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Tuesday morning was DARK. 06:30 on previous morning’s had been wrapped in a pre-dawn grey light, but this one was just black. Low , dense cloud cover meant that the only thing you could see looking out to sea was the lights of fishing boats twinkling along the horizon.
Not the best of conditions for what [...]

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I had a breakfast meeting today at the Copthorne Hotel in central Newcastle. But when I got up, it was blowing a gale and raining (the sort of weather where you can hear Norwegian voices on the wind), so I decided to go for the soft option and drive.
Big mistake.
I think everyone else must have [...]

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. . . but this is just plain ridiculous:
Man Falls In Love With Bike - Literally!
I know a lot of cyclists lust after bikes, but this story — from tonight’s thelondonpaper — about a Scotsman, is simply ridiculous:
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle was given three years’ probation . . . [...]

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