If you’re reading this, you’ll realise that my Christmas letter has gone digital this year. It’s still the same 2,000 words of self-referential drivel, but now it’s illustrated with photographs and most importantly, it’s saved me a lot of printing. As I write, our house could be described as being in a state of accidental […]
I’d booked to see a number of artists between September and November this year, the first one being on the 4th September when I had tickets to see Tommy Arch, the former drummer with Holy Moly and the Crackers. I’ve seen him once before when he was acting as support, but this was his first […]
Friday 21st November 2025 I have found myself once again cat-sitting for Felix (Emily’s cat) so I’ve planned a few things to do while I’m here. Cycling, gardening and writing Christmas cards are on the agenda. It was very cold overnight in Sheffield so I really didn’t want to venture out too soon. When I […]
Sunday 12th October 2025 We drove Tilly to the cattery at 10am this morning before heading down the M6 to Rutland Water where we’d booked a couple of nights in a posh hotel courtesy of Secret Escapes. The weather forecast was for the early morning mist to clear, but it didn’t, and we so arrived […]
Wednesday 1st October 2025 Veloviewer fans will know that there’s far more than just hunting explorer tiles. In fact there’s so much data now that even I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed so I’m just sticking to collecting tiles and increasing my cluster (a cluster being a group of contiguous tiles) My main cluster currently extends […]
Sunday 21st September 2025 I had thoroughly planned this ride with everything thought through beforehand until I received a text from my Sunday night Airbnb host in which he happened to mention that this weekend was the Kop Hill Climb, a large gathering of classic cars racing up Kop Hill (unsurprisingly). That was very useful […]
This chapter might be rather jumbled. It is neither a cycle tour, nor even a single trip away, but it simply records a few days in September when I decided to increase my Veloviewer Explorer tile cluster and in so doing, several events have conjoined, so I’m unsure how it will read. Tuesday 2nd September […]
Tuesday 5th August 2025 My plan for the next three days was to gather more Veloviewer explorer tiles in a very quiet and scenic part of the country, and ideally not battling through wind and rain in doing so. I may have let lucky with these aims since Storm Floris had done her worst by […]
Sunday 6th July 2025 I booked this short break in Scotland in early February after watching a TV programme which showcased several gardens in Scotland. Drummond Castle garden was one which really impressed Gee and I and so we arranged a trip specifically to visit it. I booked what I thought were very nice (expensive!) […]
Sunday 8th June 2025 This tour was designed to help me continue in my quest to cycle in every English county, but it started with a tile-gathering expedition around Selsey in West Sussex. I’m staying with friends both before and after the tour and since they were out when I arrived, and to loosen up […]