Sunday 7th January 2024 I’m in Sheffield on cat-sitting duties once more, so before Christmas, in preparation I created a few routes starting from Bradway which were intended to gather some stray tiles and increase my cluster around the city. Now that I’m here, I think that perhaps I was a bit ambitious with my […]
Tuesday 17th October 2023. I haven’t cycled much in the Lake District. I’ve done a little bit in the Northern Lakes and I once did a sportive which started in Grasmere and meandered through the Grizedale Forest to Cartmel. The sportive doesn’t appear on my stats since for some reason the Garmin failed to record […]
Sunday 10th September 2023 Several years ago (in 1991) I was looking to buy a car and an Austin Montego was on my shopping list. The marketing for the diesel version played heavily on its excellent fuel economy; which was stated as being over 56 mpg which was remarkable for quite a large family saloon […]