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Yesterday it was WINDY. The sort of windy that gets weather warnings, and people writing into the Met. Office saying that they’ve heard there’s a hurricane on the way. OK, so not THAT windy. But definitely more than just breezy. It was forecast to be blowing from the west at 25-35 mph in time for...
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I was thinking about the growth of traffic as I rode home last night. Chances are that if you’re over 40 (like me now!), you can remember riding in the ’70s. There were cars on the roads in those days, but nothing like the volume of traffic there is today. And I’m sure (with my...
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One of my clients runs a physiotherapy centre, and offered to take a look at my dodgy left knee - the one I injured before I did the Ironman. My default behaviour with injuries is to rest them, because that’s what you get told when you go to see your GP...
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This afternoon, Daughter and I took an amble up the coast to St Mary’s island. The weather was fine, and I seemed to remember that there’s usually an ice cream van in the car park - what better excuse did we need? When we rode across to the island, the sea level was still a...
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I’m on Sustrans’ Active In Ashington project’s list of people who can be persuaded to volunteer for stuff. So today there was some sort of eco festival thing in North Seaton, and Sustrans were running a bring-your-bike-to-be-fixed clinic. I got volunteered. Actually, it was a lovely day, and quite good fun, though I’m always shocked at...
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You know when on the weather forecast, they say "sunshine and showers"? Turns out that they sometimes mean it. In a ride of just over 12 miles to see my first client today, I ended up changing clothes THREE times: Got ready to leave the house - raining hard, so I put on coat &...
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A warm and pleasant day yesterday - a light mist when I set out from home (little more than a haze along the coast, if truth be known), but warming up to be one of those perfect days. Bright and sunny, warm and pleasant; neither hot nor cold. Just perfect. Is this late summer or...
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This, hot off the presses: It’s not winter yet. In fact, it may not even be autumn for at least a couple of weeks. I just wish I’d know that this morning - I looked out at the weather (sea: mountainous still; vaguely Danish voices on the wind), and decided that it looked...
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Monday was windy. I mean really, properly windy - the sort of weather where if I were to listen carefully outside my front door, I’d probably hear people speaking Dutch; when a dog takes a pee against a lamp post in Groningen, there’s a strange tang in the air in Whitley Bay. Mountainous seas...
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I spent Sunday creating an Ebay listing for my tandem, Daisy. Bought to get me & Von SmallHaussen through the Dunwich Dynamo together, she’s now served her purpose. I’ll be sad to see her go . . . but the funds raised will go toward my Brompton kitty. So at least it’s all in a...
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