Archive for May, 2010
On the raggedy edge
May 27th, 2010I am loving my local trails on three fronts at the moment. Firstly the woods are full of cow parsley, nettles and brambles to a height of around shoulder height. This means that the single tracks wind around in such a way that you cannot see where you are going. There is nothing as exhilarating […]
More bloody nettles
May 24th, 2010
Took a crash on a corner on our local trails straight into a patch of nettles. I have damn warm itchy shins and right fore arm. As I made my way to my feet i felt more nettles sting my fingers through my cycle gloves. I gave the patch a damn good thrashing.
Took me back […]
WHATS IN A DOGs NAME
May 17th, 2010I was riding through the park the other day. as i passed a dog walker i heard her call out to her dog. In a Sarf London twang she called out ‘come on Dave’. This really tickled me. I imagined her household complete with both Dave her husband and Dave her dog responding as she […]
Spring cleaning
May 14th, 2010I seem to have spent the past two evenings Spring cleaning my studio. I have done nothing constructive per se… but it feels like i have. Out of interest i typed spring clean into a search engine. There are guides on how to spring clean and how to organise your spring cleaning. There is even […]
Starved of TABLOID news
May 10th, 2010I read the paper every day. well I read a paper every day. It may not be that days paper, buta paper i read none the less. I figure I still learn more than i would if i read Harry Potter. Anyway in my meanerings today i chanced on two stories of people who were […]
Memory Map - St Marthas Hill
May 3rd, 2010Had a grand mountain bike this morning around Albury and taking in some jumps and a bit of downhill i have not riddenfor over five years. While riding i found a Memory map GPS thingy. I don’t really have a clue what it does or how to use it. If you were there and dropped […]