Silly Stuff

To celebrate having got my run yesterday done before 10pm, I had a couple of beers last night. And a nip of that nice Talisker. Oh, and forgot that for the rest of the day, all I’d had to drink was two cups of coffee in the morning, and a cup of tea in...
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So this afternoon, Daughter and I went to Wet’n'Wild. No, although that would be a good name for a venue with, ahem, adult entertainment, it’s actually a local water park. Slides, flumes, circulating water that you can just drift along with, and usually about a gazillion kids. Daughter’s now nearly eight, and until now she’s...
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Bah! Man-flu! Yep, I had it over Christmas, and I still don’t feel anything like 100%. I didn’t make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve, and even now, I feel like I’m not getting enough sleep. But then again, apparently when I have man-flu, I do snore. Which could explain why I keep waking...
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Remember the ’70s? The original Starsky & Hutch, when skateboards had a front and a back end, and when Tom Baker was Dr Who? I only really remember half of it, because for the other half I was busy drooling, learning bladder control, and stuff like that. I’m still working on those now, actually. ANYWAY ....
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This via Cyclelicio.us - an Aardman Animation (the folks who kept winning the Oscar for Best Animation a few years back) of Angry Kid on his bike: Kinda funny. Till you see it happening for real. It’s easy for riding assertively to spill over into the kind of “F*** you” aggressive riding caricatured in the...
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Wife’s away visiting a friend from university. So having walked Huge Dalmation, fed, bathed & put Daughter to bed, I’ve spent the evening Wwilfing. Amongst other things, I’ve found pictures from the Armistice Day services, The Great War (the war to end all wars), and a whole lot of bike stuff. Which brings me to...
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So there are a bunch of people doing amazing stuff today - Brad & Big Dave & a few others from sweat365.com are doing the Steelman Triathlon somewhere in and around Las Vegas. 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and then a full marathon. Any race with those kinds of distances is tough, but for...
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So yesterday, Brad insinutated that I might be one of those people who would be up for some “crazy bike love“. Now, while it’s true that I DO love to ride, and have given each of my bikes a name (Daisy, Christine, Trixie, and  . . . um . . . Wilf), I’m really...
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You wouldn’t believe the number of reasons that people dream up for not cycling, and staying instead in their nice, expensive, gas-guzzling, planet-wrecking, antisocial, unsafe cars. Via the Bike Darlington Blog, I came across this new research from Cycle England: Two thirds (64%) of women say they never cycle and just 2% cycle every day...
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… with the word ‘motorist’ in this cartoon that caught my eye in one of the local free papers today (click to follow the link thru’ to the original & enlarge): It made me laugh, anyway! Sometimes it’s just too easy to ride with a chip on your shoulder (I know I’ve done it), acting...
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