Posts Tagged ‘ photos ’

This afternoon I went to Tesco to top up on some groceries (I know - but I had bought all my fruit & veg and meat in Whitley Bay yesterday). The parking facilities for bicycles make it clear what kind of customers Tesco values. There are roughly 500 car parking spaces, and THREE for...
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Number One - the vicar who lives around the corner: Shirt & dog-collar? Check! Appropriately summery jacket? Check! Ordinary trousers? Check! Sandals? Check! Sandals without socks? Fail! Obviously a foreigner or some sort of degenerate leftie. Helmet worn as an ironic fashion accessory rather than to actually do anything? Check! Sensible bike? Check! Bag hanging from handle bars? Check!
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Irony of ironies - on the day that I had to drive to work, Daughter rode to school, and left the house at the same time as me: If you’re the kind of person who notices these things, you’ll probably notice the helmet. She first rode to school a few weeks ago, and got a...
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If you were to look at the official stats, you’d think that riding to work was either too cold, too hot, or often, too wet: Look at this month - on average, we can expect almost ten rainy days! The truth of this is of course a little different. Take today for example… Weather forecast was...
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I had to teach on a Saturday morning. The students had made an effort to come in, even though the weather was perfect. And I’d made the effort, even though I’d found out that Osijek’s critical mass ride was taking part. That’s dedication, even though I felt like this: So when one of the students...
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Last weekend was my third visit to Osijek in the far East of Croatia. It’s a town of around 100,000 on the banks of the river Drava - one of the Danube’s tributaries, and this was my first visit during the summer. During that time the city’s economy hasn’t done fabulously well (where has?), but it’s still...
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Remember all those stories about the Royal Mail phasing out its fleet of 24,000 bicycles “for safety reasons“? Well I think I’ve uncovered the truth on this, and it’s a whole lot more sinister than even the Health & Safety State Police could imagine. As part of the planned privatisation of the Post Office, their...
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Tomorrow is my father’s Nth birthday. It’s also the day that he’s giving up riding a bike. I know: “Say it ain’t so!”: His bike is a bit different to any of mine though - it’s a Honda Goldwing. Let’s face it, when it comes to road presence, this thing is more like Judge Dredd’s Lawmaster...
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Well, last week’s competition drew some very insightful entries - it seems that everyone from the President of the AA himself, right down to a small monkey from somewhere in the vicinity of Manchester wanted to see the AA President tarred & feathered. Judging the winner was extremely difficult, but in the end our...
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First up - congratulations to Jim Davis for his winning entry to last week’s caption contest. His observation that the Raleigh Grifter had a long and painful development process that saw much of its purist refinements stripped out before S.O.P. hit the nail on the head. We’ll be sending Jim his very own time...
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