Wednesday 19th March 2025 In November 2024 I booked tickets to see Katherine Priddy in Leeds after seeing several reports of her excellent live shows and terrific songs, but before I’d actually listened to many of the songs. She was playing at the City Varieties Music Hall which once hosted The Good Old Days on […]
Sunday 9th March 2025 About a year ago I planned a ride across North Wales, starting from YHA Trafford Hall near Chester with one night at YHA Conwy. Sadly, I was quite poorly on that ride, so this time, in much better health, I decided to do something similar but not touring this time, just […]
Tuesday 15th January 2025 I began to plan this short break before Christmas and sketched out the routes to collect some Veloviewer tiles to the northwest of Kendal. I checked the weather forecast before booking anything and so avoided the desperately cold spell starting on the 6th and by today the weather was warm but […]
I managed to cover quite a bit of ground this year one way and another. Several tours and multi-day rides, although one had to be cancelled after an unfortunate accident on a mountain bike in September, keeping me off two wheels for six weeks. Once more, I’ve included both cycling and walking graphics. This year, […]
Tuesday 10th December 2024 The long-range weather forecast was spot on last week. I don’t usually pay much attention to such forecasts since they’re rarely accurate enough to plan by, but last week I made an exception. I was hoping to take advantage of a YHA special offer which required making a booking prior to […]
By September 2020, the country was gradually being released from its lockdown restrictions, and Geraldine had started performing wedding ceremonies once more. She was being given many of them just then since several of the other celebrants were classed as vulnerable and didn’t yet feel comfortable venturing out into the community. There was still a […]
When I began my Open University course in 1985, one of the set books for the course was called “Micro-chips with everything” which was a series of essays derived from five seminars held in July 1982. In the UK, the government declared 1982 to be Information Technology Year and the seminars set out to ask […]
September 2019 started with us both being away on separate holidays since Geraldine was in Kent until the 8th, and I set off to go to Essex with Jim on the 4th. I had been invited to take part in a cycle trip to ride down the length of the river Rhine. Jim and his […]
Like everyone else my age, I don’t feel old. But when I think back to life when I was in my 20s I realise that the world is a very different place. I bought a book in 1983 called ‘The Timetable of Technology’ and it listed all the major technological innovations of the 20th century. […]
For the first few weeks after my retirement at the end of July 2018, I spent several hours sorting out my company pension. I received a formal offer on 1st August but I then had to go and speak to someone at Pensionwise to hear their advice. This was mostly a formality and by mid-August, […]