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Summer Made Me Cross

3 Jun Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Just a quick bikey update… It’s been a slightly unorthadox ‘summer’ so far for me on the bike (I mean summer in that context as being after the clocks change!). Started okay at the SiS Crits round the fast 1 mile circuit at Preston.

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Formby Dunes: Recommended

3 Jun Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

Fantastic trip with Katie and the girls to Formby Sand Dunes / Red Squirrel woodland on Monday – it was chucking it down all morning and we took the risk… it paid off and cleared up minutes after we got there. Brilliant, very non-Northern feeling … Read More →

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Elsie – Three as a bird

3 Jun Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

They all grow up fast, don’t they. Elsie’s third birthday last week seemed to mark a bit more ‘moving on’ in the household and confirmed any suspicion that time goes by ridiculously fast in life. It fell on a ‘normal’ work day for Katie, a … Read More →

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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 →