Category Archives: Blog

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A lesson in bike riding

2 May Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Video. 2 Comments.

… from a 2 year old. Something familiar in my youngest, Elsie. A second-born, she’s grown up watching older sister doing everything she can’t do, so when she finally was allowed to ride a ‘pedal’ bike last Thursday, she went about it so vigorously and … Read More →

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Easter weekend 2011

1 May Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Video. 1 Comment.

Great family time in terrific unseasonable weather. We went to see Rach & Jon @ Ravenstonedale, then stay with Phil & Anne and family in Arkholme, then onto Ingleton for a stay with Jean & Bill. Lovely memorable times, lots of great food, and a … Read More →

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Cake Day

18 Apr Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 3 Comments.

At the risk of this turning into a cake-themed blog as it seems to have been doing of late, I won’t go on, but I just had some very lovely photos to share with you. Katie was treated by Matthew and Holly to a day … Read More →

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Let Them Eat Cobbles

4 Apr Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Marie Antoinette is reported to have said “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (‘Let Them Eat Cake‘), showing her oblivious ignorance to the famine of the breadless poor. Something in this I can relate to in my current lifestyle as stupidly-busy dad / web developer / … Read More →

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Liver Hill Fell Race 2011

29 Mar Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Was revved up for tonight’s Liver Hill race in Rawtenstall – the local ‘my oh my the clocks have just gone forward and we can do something in the evening‘ event.  Having races here last year in pretty nasty boggy conditions, I was looking forward … Read More →

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Today’s lesson: Learn

1 Mar Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Had a very satisfying ride out today with Matthew and Ed Oxley. Arranged ages ago it was a bit of a longshot that the weather would turn out so darned lovely, but it did. When you take a punt on the weather like that and … Read More →

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Cart, sleigh & horse: Cyclocross season reviewed

1 Mar Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

I’ve been a bit low on finding the time to blog the last few months.  In some ways the world’s moved on. I don’t need to paste a link to a video or anything on this blog anymore because the sharing thing’s taken care of … Read More →

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Stay-cation half term.

24 Feb Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

Had a really nice couple of days this week off work but basically doing things you’d to on a holiday. With Lily leading the agenda, it mostly revolved around the animal kingdom, with a visit to Bleakholt animal sanctuary on Wednesday and then Knowsley Safari … Read More →

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Selfless devotion to family

20 Feb Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Sport. 1 Comment.

Sometimes in life it’s time to stop doing what you enjoy, and pay some dedicated time to other family members. With young families, my brother in law Simon and I get very little time together and no quality time to speak of in the last … Read More →

Everything’s gonna be all Whyte

8 Feb Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Interesting project on at the moment on behalf the design team for Whyte Bikes. Ian (who works on product design there) and I go back a long way and given my boundless enthusiasm for cyclocross (and what younger people might call ‘experience’), I’m starting to … Read More →