Wales

Last Friday I got an email from Fat Rob asking if I’d be interested in doing a double century next year. I love the idea of this - an unsupported 200 mile, single-day ride. The only problem is that his suggested route of Cambridge to Scarborough left me a bit cold. So I’ve spent a...
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I’ve been called all sorts of things in my time, many of them not particularly flattering, though many quite justified. But I have thick skin - something that probably comes from being an engineer. Unless insults are printed out on tractor-feed paper & backed up by a lot of calculations, I just don’t understand...
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So we went down to visit Wife’s Sister & family in Wales for the weekend - it was Brother-In-Law’s 40th birthday the week before, so it was an opportunity for some good food and good wine with some very acceptable company. I wasn’t going to take my bike. I mean, I had suggested that it...
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Wales is a very green part of the world. It’s all the rain. Being charitable, you could say that it makes the plants grow. I think it just encourages green mold growth. Anyway, according to the forecast for Sunday, it was to be a bright spring morning, with a 14 mph breeze blowing from the...
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