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When I was a kid I rode for years without puting so much as a drop of oil on my chain . . . But for some reason now, it seems to be something that needs doing just all the damned time . . . I’ve tried all sorts of lubes, ointment and jollops, but it’s...
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It’s funny how we do this, isn’t it? Start off with inanimate objects, yet before long we’ve attached all sorts of anthropomorphic characteristics to them. It starts by simply refering to ‘it’ as ‘he’ or ’she’, and before you know what’s happening, this thin end of the wedge has opened you up to all...
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Hot news today - it snowed last night, and was really cold this morning. I was having a work from the office (home) day, but after dropping Daughter off at school, I took Huge Dalmatian for a walk. He’s a complete wuss when it comes to weather, and was definitely uncertain about the half...
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. . . and a busy day. Wife’s abandoned me for a week’s gallivanting in That London. She’s staying with VonSmallHaussen, and according to the detailed & extensive itinery I’ve been left (she claims it’s so I’ll know where she is in case of emergencies. I think it’s to rub in what a great...
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Wife was heading off out today to deliver some of her cards to a shop in Tynemouth, and then to head up to Monkseaton library to drop off some postcards publicising the Whitley Bay Book Group she’s starting for New Writing North. Naturally, she was riding, so as she set off I took a couple...
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If you read Algernond’s blog, you’ll probably be familiar with how irresponsible he is. Running with a chest infection, getting badgered into off-piste skiing and walking up to closed peaks, and stuff like this: The problem is that having spent a week hanging around with a reprobate like this, some of it’s bound to rub...
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So I’m a bit late writing this up. You just wouldn’t believe how much work had piled up in the week we had away skiing. There were no ski lessons on Saturday, so Daughter and I heade off up the lifts & over the mountain to Courchevel 1850. It seems that in the week we’d...
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On Thursday, there was no ski school, so Daughter and I got to do some distance together on our skis. Like Algernond with his Petite, I found this exhausting, so I can only imagine how tiring it was for Daughter. She can ski - turns starting to parallel-up, and the ability to snow-plough to a...
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I had a spare half hour today, where I could go for a run, and be back in time to pick Daugher up from her Ski school. So that’s just what I did - running down the red piste to La Tania central, and then along the road to Le Praz. This was a...
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So we got here last night at around midnight, and by the time I got to bed, it was nearer to one in the morning. Then for some reason, I got virtual jet lag. Never had this? Well it’s where you wake up at about 2am, and you’re brain says, Hello! It’s morning! Time to...
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