Archive for June, 2010
Bramble rash single track
June 15th, 2010
I am loving the single track close to me at the moment. The brambles, nettles and receding cow parsley are at such a height that the path remains obscured as you hurtle along it
You can tell anyone who rides single track at the moment as they will bear le rash de bramble. My fore arms […]
You cannot beat Beetles.
June 11th, 2010We have found loads of great beetles around our house recently. I guess its one of the benefits of living somewhere less urban. Not that everyone thinks this is a good thing. Last week we found a Sexton Beetle, which was pretty big and totally toptastic. Today we found this great looking wasp beetle just… […]
Geocaching - what? LETTERBOXING.
June 9th, 2010I heard about this new phenonema this evening call geocaching. Essentially this is letterboxing for the modern GPS ready age. I remember stumbling across letterboxes on Dartmoor during our forays up there. These were basically tupperware boxes secreted under rocks, holes in the ground or in a bush. Inside the box you would find a […]
jam quEue jam
June 2nd, 2010Seems to have been a week for queueing. I guess the bank holiday weekend has a lot to do with it. We luckily did not get stuck in any traffic jams although on the M25 today we passed queues going in the opposite direction on both of our journeys. Traffic jams are something i hate. […]