Serious Stuff

Last week Andy Cline wrote about the perennial issue of fuel prices - in the States these are looking like heading below $3.25/gal again, thanks perhaps to the release of 30,000,000 barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. His comment that this is another one-step-back in the inexorable two-steps-forward for fuel prices is...
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Oh, the lies these people tell. Mind you, you can’t really blame them, can you? Put yourself in their position: You run a multi-billion dollar / euro / pound / yen business, employing thousands. For the last fifty years, governments have pandered to your every need - built infrastructure for your customers to use, gone...
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Take a look at this film from Andyb0000 on YouTube - pause it and note down the time in the film at which you’d identified what was going to happen: Thankfully, Andy is on the mend, but his footage raises some interesting questions about the degree of vigilance that’s needed to ride on the roads...
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Actually, I had quite a thing about them - especially the heroin peanut butter ones. The Von Smallhaussen pointed out that they were made by Neslé - a company that some would say has a problem with ethics. So I stopped eating them, and all other Neslé products. And now this from Greenpeace : Lovely.
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(n.b. this post is safe for Wife to read. I was in no danger during this incident, and merely witnessed the results) Coming home from my long ride on Sunday, I chose the route over the top of Byker and down the Foss Way to Walker. This is a great road for tired legs -...
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It’s my birthday. It’s a biggie. Looking on the bright side - it’s all downhill from here. And hopefully with a tailwind!
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What is it with British cycle infrastructure? Or are those three words together just an oxymoron? What bugs the hell out of me is the shoddy, start-stop nature of it. If roads for tax paying motorists were like this, they’d end in random location, forcing drivers to push their cars across fields / other hazards...
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If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night. The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home...
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… weekend, gay rights, the right to form a union, the abolition of slavery, everything was won by disobedience" Sometimes I’m very, very boring and conventional. And I’m not entirely sure of the merits of a mass civil disobedience event at the COP15 UN Summit (will the protest achieve it’s aims, or result in a...
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the...
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