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You know when on the weather forecast, they say "sunshine and showers"? Turns out that they sometimes mean it. In a ride of just over 12 miles to see my first client today, I ended up changing clothes THREE times:
Got ready to leave the house - raining hard, so I put on coat &...
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A warm and pleasant day yesterday - a light mist when I set out from home (little more than a haze along the coast, if truth be known), but warming up to be one of those perfect days. Bright and sunny, warm and pleasant; neither hot nor cold. Just perfect.
Is this late summer or...
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Monday was windy. I mean really, properly windy - the sort of weather where if I were to listen carefully outside my front door, I’d probably hear people speaking Dutch; when a dog takes a pee against a lamp post in Groningen, there’s a strange tang in the air in Whitley Bay. Mountainous seas...
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I learned a new phrase last Friday from Radio 4’s Today Programme:
Cognitive polyphasia.
It means the ability to think about the same issue in contradictory terms. Allow me to illustrate . . .
The schools go back next week, so you can expect more of this:
… and a whole lot of this:
You can’t blame...
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It’s getting toward the end of summer, and autumn is just around the corner. The weather has been showery over the last week - witness my having to get a lift home on Monday as my bike wasn’t equipped with a snorkel. But it is still the end of summer - autumn isn’t here...
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… Because it’s for health and safety reasons. And because their Pashley post bikes can only cope with a 32kg cargo load. I mean, every other post office in the world has phased out their delivery bikes, and it’s time we got with the times (warning: pandering to national stereotypes ahead) . . .
The...
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If you cycle anywhere regularly, the chances are that you do most of the journey on autopilot. Your bike seems to know where every bump and slip hazard is on the road. After a while it becomes second nature to avoid these, so you can carry on without having to interrupt your train of...
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Sometimes I can’t figure out if my life is wonderful . . . or just very very strange. Wednesday was one of the days in which the two possibilities seemed to blend: I’d volunteered to be one of the day’s galley slaves on the John O’Groats to Lands End conference bike...
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Last week we took a bit of a mini-break down to Kent to visit my parents, and then back home via Hotel Von SmallHaussen in That London on Friday, and Auberge Algernond in Cambridge on Saturday night.
The trip to London was interesting - I managed to get a parking ticket through my own stupidity...
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It’s been a busy week, and I should have written this about, oh, a week ago. But never mind.
This year was the second Dunwich outing for our tandem, Daisy. She’d been bought with a very specific purpose in mind - the 120 mile overnight funfest from London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. This...
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