Tag Archives: Cycling
Mainly fair with occasional rain blog – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
Pedalling for girls
It was a first, the other day, on the home run from a ride, to see a teenage girl – maybe fourteen – coming the other way along the busy main road riding a nice new racing bike. It must … Continue reading
Blooming lovely!
I’ve given up on the whole idea of looking super-feminine and wearing dresses and flowing skirts on a bike. For the three weeks after I wrote that blog it more or less rained non-stop and made me consider just what … Continue reading
Not always blissy
I may give the impression, from time to time, that I cycle wearing rose-tinted glasses, brimming over with feel-good hormones and bonhomie. This is certainly often the case but while today’s ride was comparatively full of incident, it fell well … Continue reading
Dress for cycling
I’ve made up my mind. I want to wear dresses this summer. I’m fed up with trousers, shorts, T shirts. There are dresses out there this summer with nipped-in waists and nice cap sleeves and loads of colour. Some of … Continue reading
Older, wiser, faster
I was immensely cheered yesterday by the sight of an old guy with a neat silvery-white beard zooming down a slope in Cheltenham on his mountainbike. He was wearing a red jacket which was flying out in the wind and … Continue reading
Sunshine and bad drivers
Bit of a odd day today. There was a big golden thing in the sky early on, so I had to go and potter around the garden clad only in sweet white ankle length cotton nightie at 6am smelling the … Continue reading
A touch of the florals
Came back from a bike ride today and everything in the garden had been refreshed by rain. It all looked quite pretty, so I took a few pics with my phone. Not great quality but carpe diem and all that. … Continue reading
Cyclist deaths – are cyclists considered dispensible?
I don’t know what the circumstances were leading up to the accident between a woman cyclist and a car on the B4077 at Alderton in Gloucestershire yesterday. The police will investigate and take action as appropriate. But the cyclist was … Continue reading
Bad parenting
An article headed “Five hallmarks of bad parenting that are actually good for kids” caught my eye today. I never considered myself a particularly good parent but hey, maybe the boys had turned out ok because of the dodgy parenting! … Continue reading
Janh1: Mainly fair with occasional rain. 