I had occasion to need a tub (tubular cycle tyre) mending the other week and, as usual, I sent it off to Peter Burgin who advertises in Cycling Weekly every fortnight (he can’t afford the ads weekly now. It was only after some painful Googling … Read More →
Category Archives: Blog
A quick evening bike ride… after 15 years
The relocation of my brother Phil to his new job in Lancaster – and soon that of his family, as soon as they find a place to live – is starting to have an impact on me in a great way. It’s just so great … Read More →
A proud girl
A proud girl Originally uploaded by Dave Haygarth Lily recently came home from school telling us that she’d won a competition and her picture was going to be on the cover of a magazine… well, she brought it home today and was very, very proud … Read More →
Last of the really long weekends
The weekend just gone was the last of my really lovely long weekends since Elsie was born just before the May Bank Holiday. Rather than take a hyge chunk of paternity leave and putting unnecessary pressure on Reverse Delta, I thought it would be best … Read More →
Birth 2.0
Dave in ‘habitual blogger doesn’t blog for ten days’ shocker I’ve gone long enough now… this is ridiculous. Sometimes big things happen in your life and they’re so big that you’ve just got to take stock and take it all in. I haven’t even taken … Read More →
Elsie’s here!
As these things go, the arrival of Elsie Annice Haygarth at six minutes past one this lunchtime was a very smooth affair. Katie’s performance throughout was what I’d been hoping for for a second birth. A precautionary visit to hospital at 7.00am and returning home … Read More →
A bike crash, and some finger-pointing.
It’s been a funny season so far in the Science in Sport crit races at Preston – last night was my fifth Thursday in a row there and there’s been trouble of some sort in the final lap each week, either someone crashing or a … Read More →
Just the eleven of us… a weekend at home with old mates.
It’s almost two years since our bestest mates last got together at our pad. It’d be easy to blame it on the fact that James and Katy emigrated to Oz, but in reality, we’ve seen as much of Dips and Jane and they live in … Read More →
Family Video Archive… Annice – Voice of the Dales
In the mid 1980s, Yorkshire Television made a documentary about a lady called Annice Sidwells, a talented operatic singer with a beautiful and special contralto voice. Annice lived in Settle, North Yorkshire, but the documentary was based around the unlikely story of how a singer … Read More →
UK economic crisis… well, the Haygarths are trying their best anyhow
We’re in the middle of a nasty “credit crunch” (or ‘depression, slump, etc as it used to be known), and whilst Gordon Brown admirably tries his best blame it on other nations*, just read things like this to be reassured that the Haygarths – or … Read More →