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 […]
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Thursday 1st May 2025 I want to be sufficiently fit to enjoy the mountains in the Northern part of Mallorca when I get there in a few days’ time, so today was planned not just to gather some more tiles, but also to climb some decent hills. What I didn’t expect was that today’s jaunt […]
Tuesday 8th April 2025 I’d arranged to go to the Wooler Hostel in Northumberland in late September last year, but after arranging both the accommodation and a few cycle routes for ten friends, I managed to fall off a mountain bike a couple of weeks before which meant I couldn’t go! Everyone else managed it […]
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Ruth Lyon concert in Manchester
Wednesday 26th March Ruth Lyon is the lead singer of Holy Moly & the Crackers, a band we’ve been following since 2017, and a couple of years ago she began performing as a solo artist. Tonight she’s playing in Manchester at a venue I’d never heard of along with a bassist (who also plays drums […]
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Overnight in Leeds
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 […]
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Wales & Cheshire
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 […]
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Exploring the Kent Valley
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 […]
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2024 Cycling statistics
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, […]
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Cycling from Ambleside.
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 […]