Category Archives: Blog

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Ile de Ré Summer Holidays 2010

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

In the early summers of my childhood, my Dad and Mum packed my brother Phil and I, still sleeping, into the back of our family car, with a caravan in tow, and drove us to the south of France each year.   The journeys and … Read More →

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Blackburn Grand Prix 2010 – a win brings relief

22 Jul Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

A year ago I went to ride my first Blackburn Grand Prix race, and as soon as I rode onto the course for a warm-up, immediately knew it was a course for me. Last year’s race was really enjoyable for me and I went off … Read More →

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Deershed Festival 2010. Family Frolics in Sunny Yorkshire

18 Jul Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Other Music, Video. 1 Comment.

Fantastic 24 hours camping at the Deershed Festival over near Thirsk this weekend. Sandwiched between rain on Friday and Sunday, we managed to enjoy a pretty sunny day of musing and moseying to music and general arts.

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Colne Grand Prix 2010

15 Jul Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

My first town centre crit as an oldie last night (albeit still in the baby support race ) and it was business as usual.  just over 50 riders lined up for Colne Grand Prix as Colne itself seemed to be inexplicably sandwiched on all sides … Read More →

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Forty-and-a-half: Time to party

28 Jun Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

Having a birthday in the depths of January isn’t that good. At the butt-end of Christmas when schools have gone back and the daylight lasts about as long as dinner time, no-one feels like anything other than thinks like diets, holidays, or ending it all. … Read More →

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Life-Long Learner: In Pursuit of the Rad

20 Jun Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Had been very much looking forward to yesterday since January, and it didn’t disappoint.  Matthew had very perceptively noticed that no matter how much we ride bikes, there is still some learning to be done.  We spend so much money over the years trying to … Read More →

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Rossendale Triathlon 2010

6 Jun Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

A bit of tough fun on a Sunday morning and a mini-target for me. Important to keep the weight down with these mini-targets throughout the year! I finished tenth today. The usual massive disparity in the time splits out of the 259 entrants for me… … Read More →

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Lily’s third fell race: The Austwick Amble

1 Jun Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Lily did us proud yet again yesterday with what was a great run in the Austwick Amble junior race. We’d had a lovely night camping in Malham and turned up for the Austwick street fair with semi-plans to run (we’d packed the trainers etc!).

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The unlikely adrenaline hub of the world: Rossendale, Lancashire

28 Apr Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Sport. 4 Comments.

In a way, it’s a strange discovery; one of those little unpredictable things that happen in life. As a cyclist who’s done a bit of everything on a bike, and still would do if he had time, I’ve found myself refining my cycling to niches … Read More →

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John Shuttleworth: If Nick Clegg was called Nicholas

28 Apr Filed under Audio, Blog, Featured Articles, Humour. No comments.

Lovely to hear John Shuttleworth on the Vote Now Show late on Radio 4 last night. The track’s here if you missed it – his wonderfully crafted lyrics are a great take on the three horse race that’s unfolding before us…. I think he has … Read More →